The Attila exhibition
Hungarian museums and cultural institutions were recognized at this year’s Exhibition of the Year awards, with the Hungarian National Museum’s Attila exhibition and the Szentendre Open-Air Ethnographic Museum’s Together for Sustainability! winning in the category for exhibitions costing more than HUF 10 million (EUR 27,500) to produce. MODEM’s Time Mimicry, featuring fashion items from the Museum of Applied Arts’ collection, won in the lower-budget category.
The Modem in Debrecen earned the award because its temporary exhibition is a creative, witty, clearly structured and engaging visual dialogue that connects fine art and applied art, graphic art, design, and fashion, as well as the past and the present. The Open-Air Ethnographic Museum in Szentendre received the award for creating an exhibition based on its own rich collection, featuring a modern presentation that sensitively reflects on current social issues and shapes perspectives, while
the Hungarian National Museum’s Attila exhibition tells the story of this outstanding, legendary figure in European history through archaeological and historical artifacts combined with modern installation elements.
L-R: Zsigmond Gábor, Director General of the Hungarian National Museum, Vizi Katalin, Managing Director of MODEM Center for Modern and Contemporary Art in Debrecen, and Cseri Miklós, Director of the Open-Air Ethnographic Museum in Szentendre, attend the 2026 Exhibition of the Year awards ceremony at the Hungarian Money Museum in Budapest on October 19, 2026. Photo: MTI/ Márton Kovács
The Pulszky Society—Hungarian Museum Association has been presenting the Exhibition of the Year Award since 2010; this year, 19 entries were submitted in response to the call for submissions. The purpose of the award is to recognize the innovation of museum exhibitions, their ability to engage with and communicate to the public, their scholarly rigor, and their creativity.
In addition to the grand prizes awarded in the two categories, the competition jury also presented special awards and certificates of commendation.
The “Exhibition of the Year” special prize, awarded to the exhibition that best reflects sustainability and collection preservation, went to the Petőfi Literary Museum in Budapest for its temporary exhibition The Comet, Whose Flame Leads to Infinity — Jókai 200, while in the category for the best original message, the Ferenczy Museum Center in Szentendre was recognized for its temporary exhibition Minduntalan: The Prose World of László Krasznahorkai. A certificate was also awarded to the Hungarian Museum of Trade and Hospitality in Budapest for its temporary exhibition Volt egyszer egy Csemege, and to the Budapest History Museum for its temporary exhibition Heading for the Galaxy! – Hungary and the Space Age, 1957–1983, the Gömör-Kishonti Museum in Rimaszombat’s exhibition Gothic Route – European Heritage, and the Museum of Ethnography in Budapest’s temporary exhibition Uncut: The Reality of Fragile Photographs.
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Via MTI; Featured photo: MTI/Kocsis Zoltán
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