Our temporary exhibition is about the revolutionary changes of a legendary period in history. The first half of the 19th century is first thought of as an era that changed nations and the world - but it also changed the lives of women.
The political, industrial and economic turns of the Hungarian reform era were interwoven with social processes that affected the whole nation. They changed not only the attitude of the male members of the middle classes to public affairs, but also the role of women in the national sphere, both the smallest, the family and the largest. Our four-room temporary exhibition, Corset and Revolution - Women in the Age of Domestic Civilisation, takes a mosaic approach to exploring aspects of women's roles and culture, using modern digital technology to draw attention to original artefacts that are almost two centuries old.
The exhibition tells the story of the impact on women of the revolutionary thinking of the Biedermeier period, how women became self-aware and self-willed individuals, how motherhood came to be more important than ever before, how children became more important, and how women became partners to their husbands in increasingly common love marriages.
Entrance ticket:
Discount ticket: 1900 HUF
Discount group ticket from 15 persons: 1800 HUF
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As visitors to the castle have become accustomed to, the traditionalism of knowledge transfer - in this case, the Biedermeier painting style, the meticulous feminine accessories and the close study of the intricate yet simple furniture - is now combined with the contemporary. The experiential transfer of knowledge is also supported by tools whose content has been created using artificial intelligence. For example, the installation in which the characters in Ágost Canzi's 1854 painting of János Hoffmann and his wife interpret in dialogue what Biedermeier painting represented in terms of innovation compared to earlier periods.
While the exhibition seeks to convey the thinking of the period through contemporary means, it naturally also includes a significant number of contemporary works. Almost sixty original works of art evoke the Biedermeier period. Alongside objects of utility and furnishings by master craftsmen up to two hundred years old, paintings by important Hungarian artists of the period help visitors to discover the era.
The exhibition is also available in English.
