Everyone wants to be different from how he or she was born. This is the basic idea behind the new temporary exhibition at the Munkácsy Museum, presenting extreme, not exactly ordinary manifestations of the human body, entitled 'testképek.hu'.

Presentation of the human body has been present in exhibition halls abroad and in Hungary as well. However, we at the Munkácsy Museum, take on the presentation of the human body in a complex manner, with its naturalness and modifications, if you like distortions.

Strange human bodies fascinated the imagination of people at all ages. Therefore, it is not by chance that medical literature has earlier observations about distorted embryos than of stages of normal development.

The exhibition at the Munkácsy Mihály Museum has a multi-lateral approach to the subject. It shows the unique creatures' strange fate, but by contrast, it also shows when healthy people, interfere with their own body by tradition or the spirit of fashion.
We did collecting work at various areas and collected a variety of materials about the human body, including dissection from the Department of Anatomy in Szeged, the past and present of tattoos and also some contemporary items about physical identity.

Through the objects the different points of view have dialogues with one another and thus sums that have been hidden so far.

The exhibition at the Munkácsy Mihály Museum is also novel in that the information we provide was not formulated according to scientific requirements, rather, as the title suggests, through the number one means of communication in the 21st century: the language of the Internet.

We chose the theme of human body because we feel that everyone has some concerns about it. We deal a lot with our bodies instinctively and consciously. The issue of body image affects everyone, and was important in every age from the very beginning. It is because our appearance sends a message to the outside world about us.

The theme is very rich and diverse, it is impossible to walk around it in its fullness. We focused on the extreme manifestations of human body. What the exhibition reveals is that it is not only a contemporary issue but has been present in human life ever since ancient times.

Preserving the values of the past is not the only objective of a museum. The other one is mapping, our present as what is happening today, sooner or later becomes the past. And this must be documented for the present and the future as well. This is the objective of the Munkácsy Mihály Museum with its new exhibition entitled 'testképek.hu'.