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The mirror-symmetrical buildings standing on the wedge-shaped plots bought nearly one hundred and thirty years ago by Archduchess Klotild Mária, wife of Archduke József Károly, are the work of the well-known architect duo of the turn of the century, the…

We all want to get to know our past. Preserving our historical values has become especially important by the 21st century. Not only at national but also at individual level. In more and more families…

The complete digitisation of the Lepidoptera collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum (MTM) began in March 2021. In the process, high-resolution digital images are made of the drawers at…

Announcement of the Audiovisual Archives and Digitalization Center of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SASA) is a leading scientific and cultural institution in Serbia.…

A conversation with photographer Péter Peti. The word digitisation is heard a lot these days, but what exactly does it mean? It is a common misconception that photographing an art object is the same as digitisation. If a…

On 22 April, the 2017 National Salon, titled “All Around Us”, opens at Műcsarnok / Kunsthalle Budapest; it will review the past ten years of applied arts and design. We will get to know the designers who…

In our interview we introduce a photographic artist, László Lugosi Lugo, who has recognised how important it is, for himself and for the wider world, to digitise his work of four decades so far. What is the common thread in…

“They can keep track of what I phoned about / and when, why, to whom. / They write into files what I dreamed of / and also who will understand it” – Attila József lamented in his great poem Air! (Levegőt!). Indeed,…

The Morgan Library & Museum in New York is a very good example of how a library that also has an interesting collection of objects and works of art can step outside the usual framework. The institution…

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry (~ 1405-1408/9) is one of the most richly decorated codices to survive from the Middle Ages and the only manuscript whose miniatures were produced entirely by the…

Looking at Bosch's painting The Garden of Earthly Delights and the website made from it, we may be astonished at what today's technology is capable of and at the level at which we are able to preserve our artefacts for posterity.…

From mothers nursing their children, through merchant villages, to kimono-clad girls shining in the Kyoto night, these newly released Japanese works and photographs are simply stunning. The New York…