Látkép in the City

The Látkép 2025 – Art History Festival is stepping beyond its usual boundaries this year with the Látkép in the City programme. It’s worth keeping an eye out beyond the festival days as well, as partner institutions in Budapest are offering visitors special events. These off-site programmes will take place outside the festival days, either before or after the main event.

 

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The programs will be conducted in Hungarian; English interpretation will not be provided.


Archive tours, lectures, exhibition tours and film screenings.

Date: 22–23 September 2025

Venue: Budapest City Archives, 1139 Budapest, Teve u. 3–5.


Guided tour of the exhibition “Gottermayer Galaxy” at the MNM KK Museum of Applied Arts – Ráth György Villa

Date: 23 September 2025, 15:00

Venue: MNM KK Museum of Applied Arts – Ráth György Villa,  1068 Budapest, Városligeti fasor 12.


Archive tour in the Monument Collection of MÉM MDK

Date: 23 September 2025, 17:00–18:30

Venue: Hungarian Museum of Architecture and Monument Protection Documentation Centre, Jász Street site, 1135 Budapest, Jász utca 33–35.

The Monument Protection Documentation Department of the Hungarian Museum of Architecture and Monument Protection Documentation Centre (MÉM MDK) will open its storage rooms for a guided tour. Visitors will gain insight into the operation and storage conditions of this more than 150-year-old monument collection, while viewing rare books, special drawings, photographs, and documents of key monuments of our built heritage. Documents prepared during surveys and restorations will provide a glimpse into the history of monuments over the past century and a half.


Church Museums Today – Questions and Realities

Date: 24 September 2025, 11:00

Venue: Lutheran National Museum, 1052 Budapest, Deák tér 4.

A mini-conference organised by the Association of Church Museologists. Through three lectures and a roundtable discussion, we will examine the current situation and role of church museums in preserving and exploring cultural heritage. This will be initiated in the spirit of dialogue and interdisciplinarity, reflecting on changes over the past nearly 40 years.

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The Archival Palace in the “Cityscape”

Date: 24 September 2025, 10:00–18:00

Venue: National Archives of Hungary, 1014 Budapest, Bécsi kapu tér 2–4.

On 24 September, the National Archives of Hungary will hold an open day, offering building tours, an unusual castle walk, and a lecture revealing the secrets of the Archival Palace. Our exhibition “1945 – In the Crossfire” will also be open all day, with the opportunity to visit it with a curator-led tour.


Visit to the Collections of the Historical Photo Department of the Hungarian National Museum

Date: 24 September 2025, 16:00

Venue: Hungarian National Museum, Historical Photo Department, 1088 Budapest, Múzeum krt. 14–16.

Museum curators Éva Fisli and Zsuzsanna Szegedy-Maszák will offer insights into lesser-known periods of photographic history through rarely seen pieces from the Historical Photo Department’s collections. Visitors can study original artefacts created with early photographic techniques – including daguerreotypes, tintypes, analogue photo albums, and autochromes. The programme will introduce 19th-century colouring and retouching techniques and discuss photographic practices characteristic of different historical periods. It will conclude with a look back from the perspective of contemporary photography, presenting a few recent acquisitions connected to the modern revival of analogue photography.


Lecture by József Mélyi and pop-up guided tour of the exhibition by Dorottya Szonja Koltay and Anna Seress: “Téglatan: Collapsed by Evening, Rebuilt by Morning”

Date: 24 September 2025, 18:00–19:30

Venue: MNM KK PIM Kassák Museum, 1033 Budapest, Fő tér 1.


In Search of Our Protected Shops • Nostalgic Downtown Walking Tour

Date: 25 September 2025, 15:30

Venue: Meeting point: 1053 Budapest, Ferenciek tere 10. (in front of Párizsi udvar)

Organiser: MNMKK – Hungarian Museum of Trade and Tourism

To mark the 150th anniversary of the unification of Pest, Buda and Óbuda, the Hungarian Museum of Trade and Tourism has created an exclusive programme. As a specialist museum, we invite participants on a nostalgic downtown walking tour. The historical background material will serve as intellectual nourishment, while the offerings of these old commercial and hospitality businesses will provide spiritual and physical refreshment during the walk. We will trace our protected shops in downtown Budapest, recalling their illustrious past, while appreciating their present-day charm through personal experience – thus discovering another side of the city centre. We will guide you into a magical world where past and present meet. Our tour will begin at a site once visited by an archduchess, and will conclude with a visit to Budapest’s most famous and prestigious confectionery, where knowledge and tradition have been passed down through generations.


Curator’s guided tour of the exhibition “Puzzle of Seventy-Seven + 7 Works”

Date: 28 September 2025, 15:00

Venue: BTM Kiscelli Museum, 1037 Budapest, Kiscelli utca 108.

The Municipal Gallery has no permanent exhibition – and even if it did, it would take on a constantly evolving, renewing form. Our exhibition, born from the desire to present our collection, was created in the spirit of changing perspectives on museums. A smaller portion of the material has been featured in previous collection exhibitions, while a larger portion is a new selection that clearly reflects questions of war and peace, as well as voluntary and forced identities. The title of the exhibition refers to the organisation of the material: various historical and contemporary artworks are linked along thematic threads, forming a complex structure reminiscent of a puzzle.

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