Exhibition about the Hungarian aristocracy was a big hit in China

According to origo.hu, more than 700,000 visitors were interested in the Hungarian National Museum’s Sissi and Hungary – the Hungarian aristocracy’s luxurious life in the 17-19^th century exhibition introduced in June in Shanghai. After the big success, the exhibition traveled further to Beijing, the Forbidden City and was opened on the 27^th of September.

The exhibition presents the life of the aristocratic families in the past 400 years and the medieval and modern Hungary with more than 150 works of art in the Palace Museum in Beijing. Furthermore, the Chinese audience can also get to know the aristocrats’ attitude towards the House of Habsburg.

The story is presented by an institute with such great past that it is part of the story itself, as the Hungarian National Museum was founded by the earl, Ferenc Széchényi 215 years ago.

By founding the museum the earl and the aristocracy’s aim was to create a universal Hungarian collection of culture and history.

Just like in the past decades, today’s historians and curators of the institute intend to present the country’s rich history through the Hungarian nobility’s artefacts in the Asian metropolis.