Programs at Eger Castle during the Night of Museums.
Entrance fee: 800 HUF/person
Programs
17:00 From Sourdough to Loaf – Discussion and educational lecture with Beáta Jakó
- Location: Bread Distribution House
17:00 Opening of the Children’s Creative Circle Exhibition
- Location: Dobó Bastion Event Hall
- The renewed 2024 exhibition “The History of Egri Castle,” accompanied by thematic workshops in the Castle Workshop creative circle, covered the following topics:
- What jewelry has survived from the Árpád era?
- What internal and external decorations were used in contemporary books?
- What kind of heating was used during King Matthias’s reign?
- How did people entertain themselves during the Renaissance?
- What memories remain from the period of the Reformation?
- What was Eger like during the Turkish era?
- In our small exhibition, we present the artifacts known from the castle history exhibition through the children’s creations.
- The exhibition is opened by: Zsófia Novákné Mlakár, acting museum director
17:30 Children’s Book Presentation – Conversation with the author
- Dangerous Competitive Spirit (Eger Tales Series 1)
- Location: Dobó Bastion Event Hall
- Our guest is writer Ágnes Gaura, who will be in conversation with Zsófia Novákné Mlakár
- Related program: Eger Tales – Family playful activities related to the children’s book
18:00–21:30
- Sebő, the main character of the story, guides participating families through the “History of Egri Castle” exhibition, where they solve tasks with the help of a “passport.” This aims to spark interest in the joy of shared reading and the true stories of the heroes defending Egri Castle. Among those who complete the tasks at the five stations, a winner will be drawn the next day, who will receive a copy of the new children’s book as a prize.
- From 18:30, hourly guided tours in the mine-watching corridors – fee: 1000 HUF/person
- Limited capacity!
18:30 GROTESQUE HARMONIES – GALAMBOS 58.
- Art historian Ágota H. Szilasi leads a guided tour of the exhibition of painter Tamás Galambos
- Location: Sándor Ziffer Gallery (Eger, Kossuth Lajos Street 17)
18:30 Guests of the Feszty-Jókai Salon in Eger – Literary Salon
- A joint program of the Sándor Bródy County and City Library and the István Dobó Castle Museum
- Location: Dobó Bastion Event Hall
- A chamber exhibition about Sándor Bródy and Géza Gárdonyi, guests of the Feszty-Jókai Salon. Books from the Sándor Bródy County and City Library
- Related to the work of Mór Jókai
- Museum workshop about Jókai, Gárdonyi, Bródy, and the vibrant intellectual life of the era. Presenters: Júlia Sz. Király, literary historian (István Dobó Castle Museum), Orsolya Szécsényi, librarian, Zoltán Turay, librarian (Sándor Bródy Library)
19:00 Storytelling with Eszter Zámborszky at the Bread Distribution House
19:30–20:00 Jókai volumes from the legacy of Dr. Istvánné Ettre
- Location: Dobó Bastion Event Hall
- Lecture by Györgyi Bujdosné Pap, historian and chief museologist
19:30–20:00 “…Chapel (…) which stands on the neighboring Eged hill in honor of the emblem of our salvation, the Holy Crown”
- Guided tour by archaeologist Enikő Valasek about the research results of the Great Eged hermit’s chapel
- Location: Exhibition space of the Southern Reception Building
19:30 Lifestyle, Craft, and Clothing with the Eger Knight School
- Location: The Hospital Cellar
19:30 The Old Esteemed One – In Géza Gárdonyi’s Workshop
- Unconventional guided tour at the Géza Gárdonyi Memorial House, followed by a literary conversation and games on the terrace
19:30–21:00 Historical Literature
- Family discovery game at the Géza Gárdonyi Memorial House and garden
20:00–21:00 Ask the Museologist – Guided tour in three episodes
- Location: The History of Egri Castle Exhibition – Gothic Palace Room 5
- The István Dobó Castle Museum’s castle history exhibition was opened on October 17, 2024, on Egri Castle Day. This was the fourth reorganization of the exhibition, first opened in 1965, with content and installations adapted to our times. The guided tours by the staff of the István Dobó Castle Museum reveal events from the thousand-year history of Egri Castle to visitors.
20:00 Archaeology – Gergely Rákóczi, archaeologist-museologist
20:20 Century of Weapons – Ingrid Fejér, historian and chief museologist
20:40 Objects-Artifacts – The role of the restorer in creating an exhibition – Melinda Sikéné Kovács, restorer-artist
21:00 About the St. John’s Night Fire Lighting
- Location: The History of Egri Castle Exhibition – Gothic Palace Room 5
- Fire lighting and fire jumping in Northern Hungarian folk tradition
- Lecture by ethnographer Irén Császi
21:30 Bonfire Lighting – Performance by the Flashpoint Fire Juggling Association
21:45 Dance House with Gyula Bécsi
