24 August 2018 – 31 October 2018
Archaeologist Bálint Kuzsinszky, the first director of the Aquincum Museum and founder of Budapest’s Metropolitan Museum died on 23 August 1938. Kuzsinszky is also known for launching and supervising the systematic excavations of Aquincum and for starting the research on the Roman limes in Hungary. He worked on both theoretical and practical aspects of museology and as a result of his international contacts and exhibitions abroad, museology in Hungary reached European standards. As a pioneer of monument protection, Kuzsinszky played an important role in the preservation of endangered archaeological remains.
On the 80th anniversary of his death, we honour the memory of the great scholar with an exhibition that presents Kuzsinszky the person and the age in which he worked. The exhibition takes visitors to the heroic age of Aquincum excavations, exploring Aquincum at the turn of the century and during the interwar years in the wider cultural history of the period.
Curator: Katalin Lengyelné Kurucz
