Budapest museum of Asian art to reopen to public on Saturday

The Ferenc Hopp Museum of Asiatic Arts will reopen to the public on Saturday after a closure forced by the outbreak of the coronavirus in the spring.

The museum’s Made in Asia exhibition, which was mounted last year to celebrate its 100th anniversary, can be viewed on Saturdays and Sundays between 11am and 4pm, the museum said on Monday.

The exhibition presents the most outstanding artefacts of the museum’s Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, Southeast Asian, Mongolian, Tibetan, Nepali, Middle Eastern and Zichy collection.

On Saturday, the museum on Andrássy Street will host a presentation of Hungarian photographer Zoltan Gaál’s book on Japan.

The exhibition portrays the greatest periods in the museum’s history, allows an insight into the collecting criteria and presents the most representative artefacts of each collection of the museum (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, South East Asian, Mongolian, Tibetan, Nepali, Near Eastern and the Zichy collection).