It was 400 years ago this October that Gabor Bethlen, was elected by the parliament of Kolozsvár the Prince of Transylvania. The new temporary exhibition at the Hungarian National Museum pays tribute to the prince of dominant personality.

The exhibition focuses on Bethlen's regal dignity, his heavy-handed politician, his prevailing private life, and the pondering man behind the decisions maker who led an erratic life.

When Bethlen took the throne, he faced a ruined country, empty treasury, divided political scene, national insecurity, and economic crisis effecting the whole continent. What did the sovereign do? How did he stabilize the political and economic situation in Transylvania? Why is it that posterity calls the seventeen years Bethlen was on the throne intellectual, cultural and political " golden age? Why it is possible that the outstanding political talent and the royal virtues are still considered by contemporaries and later interpreters differently.

Who was Gábor Bethlen in reality? Vassal of the Ottoman Empire or a multi-faceted politician? Answers to these questions can be sought at the new exhibition at the National Museum to be opened.

digital applications, in addition to unusual , thought-provoking installations, diaries, memoirs and reports, satire, political, and private letters conjure up the political and private life of the mature sovereign, matured in fight.