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There's no time to panic: digital engagement tips for heritage institutions
Sian Shaw is digital learning manager at London's Westminster Abbey. He published his tips on digital engagement for
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Visit a museum during the quarantine: Hungarian museums in virtual space
Many cultural institutions responded quickly to the emergency caused by the coronavirus epidemic. In addition to making collections and virtual exhibitions available online, they also use
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Amsterdam City Archives open digital archive on coronavirus
During the coronavirus crisis museum and archive professionals do not rest on their laurels. Amsterdam City Archives is helping to build a digital archive of the coronavirus and its consequences
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ICOM and ICOMOS unite in call to allow the use of nitrogen for the protection of cultural heritage
Museums, memory institutions and heritage professionals in the European Union get a last chance to overturn an EU regulation banning the use of in-situ generated nitrogen.
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MuseumDigit 2019 video
We are proud that our two-day international conference held at the Hungarian National Museum has reached an all-time
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MuseumDigit 2019 – the Hungarian GLAM sector’s public platform for digital development
The seventh MuseumDigitconference once again gave opportunity for tech and creative industry companies working both in Hungary and abroad in the field
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OMMIK established
2011
2012
OMMIK’s first webpage (ommik.hu)
The Hungarian museum database is created - statistical data, operating licenses, supervisor reports, list of institutions won European Union projects, municipal environmental data
1st MuseumDigit Conference
10-11. June 2013.
2013
MuseuMap
Launching MuseumMap, development of museum aggregation service
2nd MuseumDigit Conference
5-6. November 2014.
2015
MuzeumStat
Launching MuzeumStat service, a public Hungarian museum database
3rd MuseumDigit Conference
Joint event: ICOM AVICOM f@imp Festival Award Winning Ceremony
3-4. November 2015.
2015
MuzeumInfo, OnlineData
1st MuzeumInfo Information Day
Launching OnlineData (free quick data-entry system)
4th MuseumDigit Conference
Joint event: ICOM AVICOM f@imp Festival Award Winning Ceremony
22-23. November 2016.
28. June 2017.
Government resolution No 1404/2017. (VI. 28.) HNM is a sector aggregator
5th MuseumDigit Conference (workshop on the 3rd day)
28-30. November 2017.
Summer, 2018
Museum Spectrum
Launching the development of Museum Spectrum
MuseumLearning
Launching MuseumLearning service
November, 2018
Autumn, 2018
OMMIK’s rebranding
6th MuseumDigit Conference (workshop on the 3rd day)
27-28. November 2018.
17 May 2019
KDS Pilot Project Kick Off
MuseuMap
June 2018
15 October 2019
KDS & Inclusive Museum Project Campaign Day
Communication at MuseumLeaning
November 2019
25 November 2019
Europeana Data Day
7th MuseumDigit Conference
26-28 November 2019
December 2019
Projectmanagement in Museums
MuseuMap records at europeana.eu
September 2019
MuseumDigit Conferences 2013-2019
Museums in Hungary
„Goods belonging to our cultural heritage are irreplaceable resources of knowing our past and present, inseparable components of the entire national and general cultural heritage, the intellectual occupation of these goods is elemental right for every citizen. All-time society’s duty is to safeguard, preserve and maintain these values, furthermore to open them up for the public expansively.”
1997. CXL. Act on the museums, public libraries and public culture
There are many maintainers of Hungarian museums, such as the state, local governments, churches, foundations, business companies. According to Ministerial Regulation (376/2017) the Hungarian State issues the official museum operating licenses. The Regulation prescribes requirements applicable to the different museum types.
NATIONAL MUSEUM
Different collection types, national collecting scope
SPECIALISED MUSEUM
One theme, national collecting scope
CITY MUSEUM
Different collection types, county scope
TERRITORIAL MUSEUM
Different collection types, specified territorial scope
THEMATIC MUSEUM
One theme, different collection types
PUBLIC COLLECTION
Different collection types in a small institution
PUBLIC EXHIBITION SITE
One permanent exhibition in a small institution
You can search every kind of data about Hungarian museums in English (collections, exhibitions, programs, academic activity, publications, media, communication, employees) on muzeumstat.hu website.