NIGHT OF MUSEUMS 2025

18:00 – 18:30: Opening dance- and movement art performance by MOHA - Mozdulatművészek Háza
Performers: Zsuzsanna Barna, Ildikó Mándy, István Pálosi, Beáta Seres, Csaba Tóth

18:30 – 19:00: What Is Movement Art? | Lecture by Júlia Lenkei

19:00 – 19:30: The Lebensreform Movement | Lecture by Prof. Dr. András Németh

Life reform is the umbrella term for the movements critical of modernization that flourished at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. These groups share a common characteristic of a return to nature; self-healing; a search for lost cosmic wholeness and spirituality.

19:30 – 20:00: Bhakti and Bhakti Yoga | Lecture by Rita Jeney

20:00 – 20:20: Site-specific dance- and movement art performance by MOHA - Mozdulatművészek Háza
Performers: Zsuzsanna Barna, Ildikó Mándy, István Pálosi, Beáta Seres, Csaba Tóth

20:20 – 20:50: Salon Life in Budapest at the Turn of the 19th-20th Centuries | Lecture by Tünde Császtvay

20:50 – 21:20: Psychology and Spiritism | Lecture by Júlia Gyimesi

What does spiritualism and psychology have in common? Who researched spiritualist phenomena and how? How have esoteric practices influenced the development of our modern ideas on therapy? Few people know that spiritualism, the occult and many other esoteric practices have attracted the attention of leading psychologists. Sigmund Freud, Carl Gustav Jung, Sándor Ferenczi and many others began to experiment with spiritualist mediums, making observations and trying to find psychological explanations for unusual phenomena. These explorations contributed to psychology in a variety of ways and laid the foundations for the later development of parapsychology.

21:20 – 21:50: The Beginnings of Hungarian Sound Film | Márton Kurutz, Film Archive, National Film Institute

22:00 – 23:30: Film screening | A férfi mind őrült, comedy, 1937, 1h 23m, directed by Viktor Gertler

Comedy about a kindly con artist painter who tries his luck with a rich widow. Taking place in Hungary in the 1930s, the hero of Rezsö Török's novel, the painter Gábor Sóváry, for all his kindness, is still broke. The only way he could make his way would be to marry a rich lady. Will he succeed? (imdb.com)