2024. April 25. Thursday
GAMMA Museum - Budapest
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Address: 1119, Budapest Petzvál József u. 56.
Phone number: (1) 205-5771
Opening hours: Book in advance via post or phone on the following number: 1/205-6397
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I founded the Gamma Museum in 1981. The idea of founding a museum like this was triggered off by a handful of photographs thrown into a dustbin. The photos showed the old workers and workshops of the factory. It was at this point that it began to dawn on me how important it would be to create a collection of the industrial history, to set memorials to the past, so that it does not fade away in annihilation.
Let me quote a few lines from the deed of foundation, which will support the reason for the museum's existence. "I believe in our fast materialising environment there is need for forming emotional ties with our second home, the work place. Important documents and items are getting lost from the past and present of GAMMA, the keeping, archiving and displaying of which would prove a wonderful means to strengthen the relationships of our colleagues with each other, but most of all with our work place. It would be a great help to our visitors if they could behold our past in an illustrative form. (Tibor Kemény)
These lines have become even more applicable, even though in 1981 - in the year of founding - we could not foresee that in the beginning of the 1990' ies, under the title of privatisation, a great damage would be done to the country by the destruction of relics of the past of the industry.
Unfortunately the fundamental goals of the museum (that is to save all valuable documents, photos, instruments and objects) could not have been entirely accomplished. However, we still managed to save and keep 2100 appliances and objects, 10000 photographs and 500 documents, and through this establish a special and complex electronic museum of precision-mechanics, which goes without parallel in the country.
Viewing the collection several artists and musicologists expressed their approval. According to the recommendation of the National Technical Museum and the Ministry of Culture and Education issued a operating permission for Gamma Museum.
The first local exhibition of certain materials of the collection took place in 1985. Since then we have arranged several exhibitions and lectures on the site of the museum and other institutions. The Ministry of Cultural Heritage gave financial support to the museum in 1998.
The museum will carry on with its its tasks of collecting, archiving and exhibiting. We trust we can transfer the materials collected to future generations. We would ask the visitors and friends of the museum to enlarge if possible our collection with materials of the past such as documents and photographs. Thank you for your support in advance. Caretaker of the Gamma Museum, Tibor Kemény.
Let me quote a few lines from the deed of foundation, which will support the reason for the museum's existence. "I believe in our fast materialising environment there is need for forming emotional ties with our second home, the work place. Important documents and items are getting lost from the past and present of GAMMA, the keeping, archiving and displaying of which would prove a wonderful means to strengthen the relationships of our colleagues with each other, but most of all with our work place. It would be a great help to our visitors if they could behold our past in an illustrative form. (Tibor Kemény)
These lines have become even more applicable, even though in 1981 - in the year of founding - we could not foresee that in the beginning of the 1990' ies, under the title of privatisation, a great damage would be done to the country by the destruction of relics of the past of the industry.
Unfortunately the fundamental goals of the museum (that is to save all valuable documents, photos, instruments and objects) could not have been entirely accomplished. However, we still managed to save and keep 2100 appliances and objects, 10000 photographs and 500 documents, and through this establish a special and complex electronic museum of precision-mechanics, which goes without parallel in the country.
Viewing the collection several artists and musicologists expressed their approval. According to the recommendation of the National Technical Museum and the Ministry of Culture and Education issued a operating permission for Gamma Museum.
The first local exhibition of certain materials of the collection took place in 1985. Since then we have arranged several exhibitions and lectures on the site of the museum and other institutions. The Ministry of Cultural Heritage gave financial support to the museum in 1998.
The museum will carry on with its its tasks of collecting, archiving and exhibiting. We trust we can transfer the materials collected to future generations. We would ask the visitors and friends of the museum to enlarge if possible our collection with materials of the past such as documents and photographs. Thank you for your support in advance. Caretaker of the Gamma Museum, Tibor Kemény.
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