According to our tradition, we will join the Night of Museums on the 20th of June 2026. From 3 p.m. in the afternoon until midnight, our library welcomes all visitors with craft activities, fire enamelling and calligraphy workshops, animated film screenings, adventure tours, recipe collections, concerts, building tours, guided tours and restoration workshops. Tickets will be available at the entrance from the 1st of June 2026.
Our bookbinding workshop and calligraphy workshop, as well as culinary adventure tours will welcome visitors of all ages starting at 3:00 p.m. this year. Our chamber exhibition, opening on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, presents the documents and careers of three outstanding scholars, Ferenc Toldy, Sándor Szilágyi, and Loránd Eötvös, who played an important role in the history of the University, the University Library, and the Academy.
Our evening program series will open at 6:00 p.m. with a concert by the string quartet of the ELTE “Eötvös” Art Ensemble.
On our library tours in English and Hungarian, visitors can learn about the history of the Library Palace and the Perczel Globe, and get a glimpse into our historic collection storage and behind the scenes of the library. Led by our restorer, they can get a taste of paper-making and bookbinding techniques, as well as the process of book disinfection and old bookbinding methods.
We will enhance the nighttime stroll with a concert by guitarist Béla Rák starting at 8:30 p.m., as well as a screening of Ferenc Rofusz’s adaptation of The Last Supper and all of his animated short films, beginning at 8:00 p.m., guided by the Kossuth and Oscar-winning Hungarian animation director.
Our guests can decorate their own handmade bookmarks, participate in our quiz titled Secrets of Feasts: Culinary Adventures in the Kitchens of Yesteryear, for small prizes, and use our library jigsaw puzzle to build our library palace and reassemble our codex pages, our culinary photos – as well as Mór Jókai’s “scenes from life” – from their fragments.
The doors of the enamel workshop will also open, where our visitors can create unique souvenirs.
In line with this year’s featured theme, Stories Captured in Flavors, we are compiling a collection of recipes. Anyone can submit their favorite recipe by filling out the form available on our website. The collection will remain accessible after the event and can be continuously expanded.
For more information, please visit our website or the Night of Museums’ homepage.
All visitors are welcome!
Photo, audio and video recordings will be made of the events. The recordings will be published on the websites, publications, forums and social media of the participating institutions.