28 May 2008

Ferenc Hopp Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts
Ferenc Hopp Museum, Budapest, Hungary
Self-description: "The Museum was founded in 1919 by the company owner, world traveller, collector and patron of art Ferenc Hopp (b. 1833, d. 1919), who bequeathed his Oriental collection of approximately 4,000 items to the state, for the purposes of establishing a museum of Oriental arts. The collection was eventually housed and exhibited in Hopp's villa in Andrassy Street [in Budapest]. Since 1923 the villa has been operating as a museum; at the time of its foundation it was and it still remains the sole museum of Oriental arts in Hungary."
Site contents:
* The Museum; * Collections (Chinese, Japanese, Indian and South East Asian, Mongolian, Tibetan and Nepalese, Korean); * Exibitions (Permanent, Temporary, Upcoming); * Whats On; * Publications [details of 12 monographs, in Hungarian, on topics ranging from the '19th-century Japanese Lacquer Art', through 'Korean Tomb Painting in the 4th Century', to 'Folk Religion in Tibetan and Mongolian Buddhism' - ed.]; * Information; * Ervin Baktay Foundation; * Virtual Exhibition; * Contact; * Forum.
A bi-lingual [HU,EN] site.
URL http://www.hoppmuzeum.hu/eng/index_eng.php
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.hoppmuzeum.hu/eng/index_eng.php
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at-coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: Museum
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 300