COURAGE

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Established by the Hungarian Parliament in 1896, the Museum of Fine Arts united previously separate collections of classical art. The building was designed and constructed by Albert Schickedanz and Fülöp Herzog in an eclectic-neoclassical style between 1900 and 1906.

The museum's collections today house more than 100,000 pieces in six curatorial departments: the Collection of Egyptian Antiquities, the Department of Classical Antiquities, the Old Masters’ Gallery, the Collection of Old Sculptures, the Department of Prints and Drawings, and the Department of Art after 1800.

As a legal body, the museum incorporates several other institutions as well: Artpool the Art Research Center (since 2015), the Ferenc Hopp Museum of Asiatic Arts (since 2014), the Hungarian National Gallery (since 2012), and the Vasarely Museum (since 1987).

The museum continues to develop its permanent collection, which will be presented at its final location, in the vicinity of the Palace of Culture and Science in the centre of Warsaw. Until now the Museum did not have a permanent location, and held exhibitions in temporary buildings (for example in a pavilion at the boulevard by the Vistula river). 

The Museum of Romani Culture was founded in 1991 in Brno. The establishment of the institution was initiated by Romani intellectuals as a non-governmental, non-profit organisation. In 2005, the museum went under the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic as a state contributory organisation.

The museum is a very unique institution within a European context. Globally, it seeks to document the culture of Roma and Sinti, or their many different sub-ethnic groups and communities.

The museum owns a collection containing around 25,000 items. Part of the original historical objects are presented in the permanent exhibition "The Romany Story (Le Romengero Drom). This exhibition draws visitors to the history of the Roma from their ancestors in ancient India, the arrival of the Roma to Europe in the 11th century, the events of World War II and the present. In the exhibition you can see dioramas, audio-visual elements but also original exhibits and faithful replicas. The museum also offers one to two short-term exhibitions and also organises a series of events for the professional and non-professional public, such as the annual Museum Night, various lectures and talks, film Thursdays, fashion shows, and music and memorial evenings. Through its activities, the Museum seeks to contribute to the (social) integration of the Roma minority into the majority society and also to a build a deeper awareness of it.

The museum also has a library with a reading room. For children and the youth, they organise animated programmes for exhibiting. The museum visits about 60 children at an also socially excluded locations, where they learn and prepare for school under the supervision of lecturers.

In January 2018, the Museum took over the monument of the Roma Holocaust in Hodonín near Kunštát and also in Lety u Písku.

The Museum of Viljandi is a state-owned regional museum in Estonia. It was originally established in 1878, as the Ditmar Museum. The museum acquired the painting collection of Paul Kondas in 1986, when Rein Joost, the director of the museum, initiated the purchase of the paintings from Kondas’ relatives. Since then, these paintings have been in the possession of the museum, and since 2003 they have been exhibited in the Kondas Centre of Naive Art.