Hungarian Heritage House the living tradition
WHO WE ARE The Hungarian Heritage House is a national cultural institution to preserve and promote the traditional culture of the Carpathian Basin.
WHAT WE DO performing arts programmes through performances of the world famous Hungarian State Folk Ensemble and its orchestra, as well as many other bands and dance ensembles co-partner of music festivals and operate a concert venue in a fully modernized historical building at the heart of Budapest folklore documentation for scientific and educational purposes with the services of its library and archives applied folk arts programmes adult education and handicraft workshops collection and exhibition of items related to folk art in its Museum of Applied Hungarian Folk Art cultural management and networking throughout the Carpathian Basin to transmit the values of traditional culture
WHY THE CARPATHIAN BASIN The Carpathian Basin has always been a multi-national and therefore a multi-cultural region. Since these traditional cultures used to live together, we can regard it as one unit: a colourful, vivid and powerful whole involving Hungarian, Rumanian, Swabian, Gipsy and Slavic traditions and folk art. The traditional folk culture of Hungary and its neighbouring countries as well as their ethnic groups has always provided a fertile ground for studying intangible cultural heritage and has always been able to fill the soul with energy.
HUNGARIAN STATE FOLK ENSEMBLE professional dance ensemble with 44 dancers accompanied by a folk music and a gipsy music orchestra all folk-related Hungarian genres on stage: historic music, authentic folk music and dance, dramatic folk plays, traditional-based world music, showdancing one of the most widely performing ensembles of the world: 50 countries of four continents, entertaining more than 8 million people altogether 100-120 performances a year at Hungarian Heritage House
STAGE PROGRAMMES village dance groups, professional and non-professional folkdance ensembles’ shows and folk bands’ concerts from all over the Carpathian Basin meeting different genres on stage: concerts of folk music and classical music, folk music and world music, folk music and sacred music, dance shows of folk dance and contemporary modern dance, folk dance and dance theatre, folk dance and historical dances thematic series for folk-lovers folklore shows for foreign visitors during summertime danced tales for children
MUSEUM OF APPLIED FOLK ARTS AND OPEN HANDICRAFT STUDIO
beautiful time-honoured items of all traditional handicrafts exciting contemporary applied folk art masterpieces that took inspiration from traditional ornaments, techniques or materials playdates live traditional folk art presentations and DIY workshops: weaving, embroidery, basket making, overcoat surface technique, leather craft, pearl jewellery designing, furniture painting, feld making, corn husk craft Make your own souvenir! Have a special experience!
LIVING TRADITION TRAININGS, COURSES, LECTURES wide selection of courses (e.g. jewelry-making, carpet waving, basket making or embroidery, singing, zither playing, story-telling) at both professional and hobby levels lectures on different subjects of ethnography: traditional medicines, traditional cloths, folk traditions, folklorists’ collecting trips comprehensive training courses for teachers who wish to use folk music, folkdance and story-telling for educational purposes
TALENT MANAGEMENT KIDS AND YOUTH PROGRAMMES complex interactive educational programmes: a 4-hour program of story-telling, handicraft workshop, folk dances demonstration and getting acquainted with folk traditions programmes and special performances organized for young visitors competitions on national culture drawing contests Hungarian tรกnchรกz (dance house) for the Little Ones every Friday afternoon (youngest may get acquainted with the world of folk tradition through handicraft, dancing and playing traditional games)
QUALITY ASSURANCE TRAININGS, COURSES, LECTURES Páva trademark: small label to guarantee the quality, the originality and authenticity of Hungarian applied folk art products qualifying folk artworks awarding the honorary titles “Applied Folk Artist”, “Master of Folk Art”, “Young Master of Folk Art”
A MODERN WAY OF ACCESSING TRADITIONAL SCIENTIFIC WORK, LIBRARY AND ONLINE DATABASE
archiving, digitalizing and publishing all folklore material collected in the Carpathian Basin
consulting in any issues related to folk dance, folk music or other forms of folklore.
Media Library services: more than 15,000 books, journals, and audiovisual items, documents from the history of the dance-house movement in the Carpathian Basin, sheet music and manuscripts
online database: increasing number of audio and video recordings, photos, slides, books and other printed material
PUBLICATIONS TRAININGS, COURSES, LECTURES sheet music children’s books educational and methodological material including textbooks, educational CDs and DVDs, scientific works on ethnomusicology history of the dance-house movement
NETWORK AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
provincial branches in Hungary and all over the Carpathian Basin with special and regular programmes: education, folk cultural events, dance houses, etc.
establishing collaborations with the organizations and government institutes of the diaspora
facilitating the development and export of the authentic folk music and world music of the Carpathian Basin
CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY daycamp in Budapest for orphans complex folk art programmes for orphans and methodological training for their tutors in a Transylvanian children’s home charity concert series helping elderly authentic folk musicians in need
CONTACT Hungarian Heritage House Principal address: 8 Corvin tér, Budapest, H-1011, Hungary Museum of Applied Hungarian Folk Art: 6 Fő utca, Budapest, H-1011, Hungary Postal address: H-1251 Budapest, Pf. 23. Hungary Telephone: +36-1-225-6049 E-mail: hhinfo@ heritagehouse.hu Web: www.heritagehouse.hu Box office: 36-1-225-6056, ticket@heritagehouse.hu Opening hours: Mon–Thu 12 AM–6 PM; Fri 10 AM–2 PM