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Judit Várhelyi, a renowned expert and award-winning ikebana artist, invites fans of Japanese culture to a creative workshop in Hopp Museum garden. The unique setting provides an inspiring environment for every participants to create individual, authentic flower compositions. More ❯❯❯

For a day, the Hopp Museum's orientalising garden will again serve as a picturesque background for beautiful works of applied art. Last June the lotus was the common motif, in October the ginkgo, and for this early summer exhibition we have chosen bamboo, the various species of which can be found in the Hopp Museum garden. The objects presented by the artists are related to bamboo in their material, form or technique, as well as to the Japanese artworks on display in the Hopp Museum's current temporary exhibition. More ❯❯❯

On her European tour, we are delighted to welcome author Amrita Chowdhury at Hopp Museum for a literary event. The author will present her book "Faking It" – an art crime thriller – where the story revolves around Amrita Sher Gil's paintings and the story mirrors some elements of her life. The book has been mentioned in various fora, articles, videos, and press releases about Amrita Sher Gil, including her various centenary events. Hopp Museum has an important collection of Amrita Sher Gil’s paintings, therefore serves as an ideal venue for the programme. More ❯❯❯

Museums’ Night at Hopp Museum is dedicated to Japanese culture this year, as our ongoing temporary exhibition presents outstanding pieces from one of the oldest core collection in our Japanese Collection Department, which was purchased by Count Bishop Péter Vay in Japan in 1907, on behalf of the Hungarian state.

On the garden stage, a series of short educational presentations await visitors – on the kimono tradition, ikebana, tea ceremony and anime culture – finally, a film screening closes the programme.
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At the end of April, Ki Purbo Asmoro introduced the genre of wayang kulit to Hopp Museum’s audience through a very successful programme. This time, a master of wayang suket (another wayang type), a member of the Wayang Suket Indonesia group comes to us to hold a wayang suket puppet making workshop in the museum garden. More ❯❯❯

The bi-annual festival, starting in 2009 as Butoh Festival has become one of the region’s most important event series presenting artists and professionals mostly who are the most prominent representatives of the non-verbal arts of contemporary Asia. More ❯❯❯

We invite visitors to join an enchanting Japanese "musical tour" on Saturday morning at the Hopp Museum. More ❯❯❯

An authentic dance performance directed by one of the best-known Indonesian choreographers, introduced with an educational presentation and discussion. More ❯❯❯

"The stones give the impression of the weight of an iceberg. Listen carefully to the sound of the waves. He who can hear these sounds will understand the subtleties of them all and will like this garden." More ❯❯❯

Dr. Sumeet Anand Pandey, Dhrupad singer (whose masters were his grandfather and Pandit Abhay Narayan Mallick), who will be visiting Hungary, agreed to come to Hopp Museum to hold an informal, interactive, hands-on lecture and teaching in the garden. Visitors and members of the audience are encouraged to actively participate: experiment with their voices, learn some basics of Dhrupad, immerse themselves in this ancient tradition. More ❯❯❯

The Ferenc Hopp Museum of Asian Art celebrates another centenary this year. The museum opened its doors in 1923 with its very first exhibition, as a result of the work carries out by Zoltán Felvinczi Takács, our first director.This year also marks the 190th anniversary of the birth of our founder, Ferenc Hopp, which creates a truly festive atmoshpere. More ❯❯❯

"In the Wayang, we can find examples and teachings on every aspect of life, from the ideas that create and guide peoples to the small things of each individual, showing us the right path, shaping and polishing character, educating the individual and thereby training him to be tough and persevering. Hence, Wayang is the eternal, the inexorable and the true drama." (Ernő Zboray) More ❯❯❯

Japanese-Hungarian literary event, organised jointly by Hungarian-Japanese Friend Society and Hopp Museum. More ❯❯❯

The new volume of Hopp Museum's education book series is out! More ❯❯❯

Eszter Cselényi is the creator and owner of fashion brand CELENI. Her latest collection is inspired by the traditional dresses of Asian nomadic tribes and ancient Hungarian people. More ❯❯❯