Joe Satriani Budapest
Budapest Sportarena
November 8, 20.00
Tickets: WorldTicketShop
Month: May 2010
Natalie Cole Budapest 2010
Natalie Cole will come to Budapest in 2010 to let her fans hear her beautiful voice. The Natalie Cole Budapest concert will be arranged in Budapest Sportarena July 26th, and the concert will start at 20.00. If you want to be there, tickets can be bought using the link below.
Natalie Cole
Budapest Sportarena
July 26, 20.00
Tickets: WorldTicketShop
Buda in the 19th century: History Museum
Would you like to know more about life in Budapest in the 19th century? This exhibition in Budapest History Museum will give you insight about “Civil society, civil values, and civil morality.” If you want an excuse to visit the Castle in Budapest, this might be a good excuse. More information about the temporary exhibition in Budapest History Museum can be found in the press release below.
Civil society, civil values, and civil morality at Pest – Buda in the 19th century
Budapest History Museum
May 14 – September 19
Press release
Civil society, civil values, and civil morality. Still expressed on many occasions today, these terms conveyed different meanings in the 19th and 20th centuries. Citizens and the set of civil values often became the supreme motif of social and political programmes in modern and contemporary history, hence the crucial deprivation of their original connotation that took place as a consequence of the constant attempts of their redefinition. Who can be regarded as a “true” citizen anyway? What are the prime elements of civil mentality and morality? How did the term “citizen”, which we regard as either an example to follow or an enemy to be destroyed in specific cases even today, come into being? This exhibition has been intended to give answers to the preceding questions.
Alvar Aalto Houses: Museum of Ethnography
Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto was a Finnish architect and designer, sometimes called the “Father of Modernism” in the nordic countries. His work includes architecture, furniture, textiles and glassware. Now an exhibition has been launched presenting his work in Budapest. Official press release about the exhibtion can be found below:
Alvar Aalto Houses – Timeless Expressions (Chamber Exhibition)
Museum of Ethnography
May 20 – August 1
Press release:
Alvar Aalto (1898-1976) is recognized today as one of the masters of modern architecture and the most influential Finnish architect worldwide. The exhibition highlights four one-family houses that form a varied and fascinating entity in Aalto’s extensive output. The buildings presented in the exhibition include The Aalto House, Villa Mairea, Muuratsalo Experimental House and Maison Luis Carré. Elements typical of Aalto, the human scale and strong connection to nature, can be found in all these buildings. At the same time, they reflect the changes that took place in Aalto’s production in general.
“There is a hidden motive, too, in architecture, which is always peeping out from around the corner, the idea of creating a paradise. It is the only purpose of our buildings. If we do not carry this idea with us the whole time, all our buildings would be simpler, more trivial and life would become – well, would life amount to anything at all? Every building, every work of architecture, is a symbol which has the aspiration to show that we want to build a paradise on earth for ordinary mortals.”
Ozzy Osbourne Budapest 2010
Ozzy Osbourne Budapest
October 4, 2010 – 20:00
Budapest Sportarena
Tickets: Ozzy Osbourne tickets
Montenegro: Natural History Museum
A new exhibition has been opened at the Natural History Museum near the Üllöi Út in the eight district of Budapest. It is named Montenegro, and it is an exhibition showing the pictures made by Veljko Vujanovic. The pictures will show the beautiful landscape, hills, cliffs, rocks together with pictures from cities, old buildings, important buildings and so on.
Montenegro
Hungarian National History Museum
May 12 – July 30
Placebo Budapest 2010
Placebo Budapest
September 15, 20.00
Budapest Sportarena
Tickets: Placeboe Budapest tickets
A-Ha Budapest 2010
A-Ha Budapest
Budapest Sportarena
July 14, 20.00
Tickets: A-Ha Budapest tickets
Matthias church updates and pictures
I remember making a photo of the Matthias Church in 2003, and I liked it quite a lot. I did of course not imagine, that just some months later the church would be wrapped with scaffold for the upcoming years, making it impossible to take a good picture of the church. The good news is now that they have removed the last scaffolds from the main entrance of the church, and it is finally possible to make good pictures again. Now the backside of the church, facing the Danube is under construction, but hopefully they will be finished with the entire church within shortly.
During the work they have in the last days found some caves beneath the church, just one meter away from the main entrance. These caves (two in total) needs to be strengthened, if not they are afraid that the church will sink down into the ground. It is not possible to visit these rooms, so if you want to go “underground”, you better visit the Labyrinth, or join us on a winetasting and guided tour underground in the castle area!
100 followers on Twitter
Wow, today we got our follower number 100 on Twitter. That could be a great thing, but I do not really feel too enthusiastic about it. Why? Because we do not really use Twitter. We have got 100 followers without really advertising our Twitter profile or without being active. Why do people follow us then? Maybe because they hope that we will follow them as a consequence that they follow us? Or maybe because they are really interested in what’s going on at our Budapest Guide? Who knows?
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For the rest of you reading this: Enjoy the sun in Budapest today! The sun is shining, the temperature is back above 20 Celsius again, and life is great!
