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18-617: In 1802, Count Ferenc Széchényi offered his library and his numismatic collection for the benefit of the Hungarian nation, so as to establish the base of a future national library, and a scientific and education center. This foundation gave rise to the Hungarian National Museum (and the Széchényi Library ). Within the museum, the mineral collection of Julianna Festetics , the wife of the count, served as

36-1383: A Buddhist master of the Chinese Medical School, which came from the Drents Museum in Amersfoort. It will be on display through May 2015. The mummy had been contained within a statue of Buddha that is reported to date to the eleventh or twelfth century. The museum has the following responsibilities: The main Departments: Furthermore, the Department of Education and Exhibitions is responsible for planning and building exhibitions, for organising visitor-friendly, interactive programs, and also for advancing museum-based education activities. The museum publishes several books and four periodicals, including Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae . 47°28′56″N 19°05′08″E  /  47.48222°N 19.08556°E  / 47.48222; 19.08556 Ferenc Sz%C3%A9ch%C3%A9nyi Count Ferenc Széchényi de Sárvár-Felsővidék (28 April 1754 in Fertőszéplak – 13 December 1820 in Vienna )

54-760: A large permanent collection of prehistoric artifacts from the province of Drenthe. It includes exhibits of bog bodies such as the Yde Girl , the Weerdinge Men , Exloërmond Man , and the Emmer-Erscheidenveen Man . There are finds from the Funnelbeaker culture, and the collection also includes the oldest recovered canoe in the world, the Pesse canoe , that dates between 8200 and 7600 BC. An annex building has period rooms demonstrating

72-696: The Molecular Genetics Lab, Paleontological Research Group, and the Animal Ecology Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences-Hungarian Natural History Museum also are found here. Exhibitions opened in the Ludovika buildings (Budapest, Ludovika Square 2–6) in 1996. Open 10:00–18:00 every day except for Tuesday. In 2015, the museum received a mummy identified as that of a monk, Liuquan,

90-593: The botanical collections perished during the war. Soon after the war, the museum opened its Department of Anthropology, that now is one of the ten largest collections in Europe. The research restarting in this period was focused mostly on the Hungarian flora and fauna. During the 1956 revolution against the Soviet occupation, artillery shots hit the main building of the National Museum. The Africa-exhibition and

108-478: The fall of the revolution, Zsigmond Széchenyi made game-hunting expeditions to Africa to replace what was lost at the Africa exhibition, at least partially. From the 1960s and 1970s the museum's researchers made frequent trips to third world Soviet allies, such as North-Korea , Vietnam , Cuba , and Mongolia , so now the museum houses considerable collections referring to the flora and fauna of these countries up to

126-458: The fourth generation of Dutch abstract figurative artists such as Matthijs Röling . There also is a collection of art and applied art from 1885 to 1935 with work by Vincent van Gogh , Jan Toorop , and Jan Sluijters . Harry Tupan is the museum director . He started in 2017, replacing Annabel Birnie, who had the job since 2012. Annemiek Rens is the chief curator. In 2013, the museum had 227,000 visitors. In 2023, it had 179,345 visitors, and

144-510: The lifestyle of well-to-do Drenthe families from various time periods. This building also houses ceramics pertaining to the House of Orange known as the collection Bontekoe. In the garden stands a statue of Bartje Bartels, the main character of books by Anne de Vries , and a symbol of the province of Drenthe. The museum holds a permanent collection of figurative art with particular attention to Realism from northern Europe and representatives of

162-502: The majority of mineralogical and paleontological collections perished. Furthermore, the Baross Street building also was hit a few days later. 36,000 stuffed birds, 22,000 avian eggs, 13,000 fish, 40,000 amphibians and reptiles, 500,000 molluscs, 60,000 dragonflies, and 200,000 dipterans were burnt, together with 100,000 volumes of scientific books and reprints. (Many of the animal specimens had been kept in alcohol.) Few years after

180-582: The museum to the building of Ludovika Academy : a historical site built originally as the Military Academy of Hungary. Renovations of these worn buildings started, but by 2007, had not been completed. Departments of Anthropology, Mineralogy and Petrology, Geology and Paleontology, and the Library already are housed in Ludovika. Furthermore, the bird and mammal collections of the Zoology department,

198-484: The nineteenth century. In 1927, when Budapest hosted the Tenth World Congress of Zoology, the insect collection harbored about 3 million specimens, thus it had to be moved to a building in Baross Street. The ever-increasing collections were too crowded and difficult to maintain within the framework of the National Museum, thus the partially separate Natural History Museum was established in 1933. Most of

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216-514: The origin of the future natural history collections. The first paleontological collection was a gift of Archduke Rainer in 1811, and the first zoological collection was bought in the same year. In 1818 the late Pál Kitaibel 's herbarium was offered to the museum, giving rise to the new Botanical department. At the time of Hungary's revolution against the Austrian Empire in 1848, the mineral collection harbored about 13.000 specimens and

234-477: The present. In 1979, the Department of Botany moved to a historical building designed by Ödön Lechner , one of the most prestigious architects in the country. The Natural History Museum, departing from the National Museum had no separate exhibition space up to the early 1990s, and the collections were growing steadily, thus all available space became overcrowded again. The Hungarian Government decided to move

252-577: The zoological collection about 35.000 specimens. In the period after the fall of the revolution, however, the only major change was the acquisition of the collections of the Royal Hungarian Natural History Society in 1856. From 1870, the Hungarian National Museum had separate departments zoology, botany, and mineralogy. The size of these collections exceeded 1 million specimens at by the end of

270-1131: Was a Hungarian nobleman and statesman, known for founding the Hungarian National Library and the National Museum in Budapest . The library is today named the National Széchényi Library after him. He was born on 28 April 1754 as the sixth child of Count Zsigmond Széchényi (1720–1769), a captain of the hussars and Imperial and Royal Chamberlain and his wife Countess Mária Cziráky of Cirák and Dénesfalva (1724–1787). His godparents were Doctor Ádám Groff and his wife Katalin Khellesz. He had an older brother and three sisters who all married into prominent Austro-Hungarian noble families. On 17.8.1777 in Kópháza Count Ferenc married Countess Julia Festetics de Tolna (1753-1824). He

288-587: Was completed. The new wing was opened officially in November 2011. The museum conducted a CT scan and endoscopy of a statue of Buddha that documented the presence of a mummy identified as that of a monk, Liuquan, a Buddhist master of the Chinese Medical School. The statue is reported to date to the eleventh or twelfth century. The mummy will be put on display at the Hungarian Natural History Museum through May 2015. The museum has

306-585: Was founded by the King's Commissioner of Drenthe on 28 November 1854 as the Provincial Museum of Drents Antiquities . On 6 November 2007, the museum announced that architect Erick van Egeraat was chosen to design a new extension for the museum. Total costs were estimated at eighteen million euros. From summer 2010 to summer 2011 the museum was closed. At the beginning of 2010, a new modern depot facility for approximately 90,000 objects and works of art

324-668: Was the father of six children and Count István Széchenyi was one of them. m This Hungarian biographical article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Drents Museum The Drents Museum ( Dutch pronunciation: [ˈdrɛnts myˈzeːjʏm] ) is an art and history museum in Assen , Drenthe , in the Netherlands. The museum was opened in 1854. It has a collection of prehistorical artifacts, applied art, and visual art. The museum also has temporary exhibitions. In 2023, it had 179,345 visitors. The museum

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