Museum

Awards


Achievements of the Museum of Ethnography

 

Building, architecture

2025 ARCHITIZER A+AWARDS 2025 Winner 

2024 MASTER PRIZE 2024 „Cultural category” Best of Best, USA 

2024 DEZEEN AWARD of the YEAR SHORT LIST 

2024 FIABCI World Prix d’Excellence WORLD GOLD WINNER, SINGAPORE 

2023 APDC „Asia Pacific Design Platinum Awards” 

2023 Archilovers „BEST Project of the Year” 

2023 Építőipari Nívódíj (Hungarian Excellence Award in Construction)

2023 World Travel Award „Europe Best Touristic development Project 2023”, LONDON 

2023 Time Magazine - World's Greatest Places, LONDON 

2023 IFD Award, BOLZANO 

2023 ICONIC AWARD, FRANKFURT 

2023 INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE AWARD, CHICAGO Athenaeum 

2023 ARCHITIZER A+ AWARD „Architecture + Facades Category”, NEW YORK 

2023 ARCHITIZER A+ AWARD „Architecture Museum Category”, NEW YORK 

2023 DNA – PARIS DESIGN AWARDS „Select”, PARIS 

2022 BLT – BUILT DESIGN AWARD, LUZERN 

2022 GDA – German Design AWARD, FRANKFURT 

2022 IDEA TOPS – International Space Design AWARD„GLOBAL BEST DESIGN”, SHENZHEN  

2022 IQD – Inside Quality Design „BEST Project of the Year”, MILANO  

2022 ARCHELLO „BEST Cultural Project of the Year”, AMSTERDAM 

2022 CDA – CREATEURS Design Award „Select”, PARIS 

2022 LICC – London International Creative Competition  „Finalist”, LONDON  

2018 IPA – International Property Awards „World’s Best Architecture”, LONDON 

2018 IPA – International Property Awards „World’s Best Public Building", LONDON 

 

Exhibitions

2025 Exhibition of the Year - SZÉKELYS - Patterns of Heritage exhibition

2025 Red Dot Award: Brands & Communication Design – collection exhibition 

2025 Red Dot Award: Brands & Communication Design – collection exhibition multimedia solutions

2025 – Luigi Micheletti Award Finalist - Collection Exhibition

2025 – iF Design Award, for the permanent collection exhibition, in the “Exhibition Design and Implementation” category

2024 The Suspension of Disbelief exhibition - Special Prize of the Exhibition of the Year 2024

2021 The Invisible Spectrums exhibition, held at the Pannonhalma Archabbey in 2021, was nominated for the Exhibition of the Year Award.

 

Museum Education

2025 Magyar Múzeumi Egyesület (Hungarian Museum Association) Special Prize – Project entitled Experimental Broadcast

2025 Museum Education Lifetime Achievement Award – József Molnár

2025 Children in Museums, finalist

2023 Museum Education Lifetime Achievement Award – Erika Koltay

2023 Museum Education Excellence Award, OKSZ Special Prize – Inclusive Day – Kincső Kolostori, József Molnár

2023 Erasmus+ Excellence Award – Kata Bodnár, Erika Koltay

2022 During the museum’s closure and in response to the restrictions imposed by the pandemic, the idea of The Patience Bottle was born to create an educational resource and encourage and develop patience. The digital material, available both on the museum’s website and on the interactive screens of the MÉTA space, has also proven its usefulness at external venues and during school outreach programmes.

2022 received the ICOM Special Prize in the Museum Education Excellence Award competition.

 

Publications

2025 Red Dot Award: Brands & Communication Design – ZOOM catalogue

2024, Szép Magyar Könyv 2024 (Beautiful Hungarian Book 2024) - Collection Exhibition, exhibition guide/ catalogue, winner in the Museum Art Books category

2024, Szép Magyar Könyv 2024 (Beautiful Hungarian Book 2024) - Suspension of Disbelief / Exhibition by Ádám Albert, Krisztián Kristóf, and Dominika Trapp at the Museum of Ethnography – Special Prize of the Ministry of Culture and Innovation

2024, , A’ Design Award, Silver  Prize– ZOOM catalogue, in the Print and Published Media Design category

2024, Indigo Award, Gold Prize – ZOOM catalogue, in the Book Design and Graphic Design category

2023, Hungarian Book Design 2023 – Shortlist for the Chair Pairs (Székátiratok) exhibition catalogue

 

Other Professional and General Recognitions

2025 Family-friendly workplace title

February 7, 2025  Certificate of Recognition from the Prime Minister to the staff of the Museum of Ethnography and Városliget Zrt. in recognition of their tireless and conscientious work in preparing and creating the Museum of Ethnography's new permanent exhibition, which was realized to an outstanding standard 

2024 Mofif Creator App by the Museum of Ethnography - Nominated for the CIMAM Outstanding Museum Practices Award

2024 MagyarBrands Award in the Innovative Brand category

2023 Pixel Perfect Award - MotifCreator App by the Museum of Ethnography

Hungarian Design Grand Prize, Visual Communication – The graphic designers of the brand image

RGB Award – The graphic designers of the brand image

2023 AVICOM – FAIMP, "Media Interpretation II. Prize" – They Tie Her Head – Zsuzsa Szarvas, István Éliás, Marianna Berényi, László Incze 

The film The Casting Net – Small-Scale Fishing in Baja won the Via Europa Award at the ETNOFILM Cadca 2022 international festival. The filmmakers received the award on January 20, 2023, at the Hungarian Institute in Bratislava as part of Hungarian Culture Day. The film was awarded for its visually outstanding depiction of the preservation of living cultural heritage.

2022 The Museum of Ethnography's EthnoZoom – the collection's storytelling objects, a moving image work, won the Silver Award in the short film category at the FAIMP 2.0 festival organized by the International Council of Museums (ICOM).

The Museum of Ethnography is among the world's greatest places on TIME's list. On March 16, 2023, TIME magazine published its list of the best places to visit in 2023, recommending 50 unique destinations. 

2022 Family-Friendly Workplace Award

In October 2022, János Csák, Minister of Culture and Innovation, issued a certificate of recognition to the collective of the Museum of Ethnography's public collection in recognition of the institution's outstanding professional activities. As he said, the Museum of Ethnography successfully completed Hungary's largest museum relocation project, the complexity and short deadline of which set an international standard, as confirmed by the international conference held in May. Moving the collection to a worthy home required great expertise and dedication, and the museum staff deserve thanks for their exemplary performance. 

 

 

AVICOM – FAIMP , „Media Interpretation II. Prize” – Bekötik a fejét – Szarvas Zsuzsa, Éliás István, Berényi Marianna, Incze László 

Magyar Formatervezési Nagydíj, Vizuális Kommunikáció - Az arculat tervezőgrafikusai 

RGB-díj – Az arculat tervezőgrafikusai 

2024. Néprajzi Múzeum, Motívumalkotó app - CIMAM Kimagasló Múzeumi Gyakorlatok Díjára jelölve 

2024. MagyarBrands díj Innovatív Márka kategóriában 

2025. február 7.  Miniszterelnöki elismerő oklevél a Néprajzi Múzeum és a Városliget Zártkörűen Működő Részvénytársaság munkatársai számára a Néprajzi Múzeum kiemelkedő színvonalon megvalósult új állandó kiállításának előkészítésében és létrehozásában végzett fáradhatatlan és lelkiismeretes munkájuk elismeréseként 

Családbarát munkahely cím 2025-ben 

 

Recognitions of Individuals

2022. március 15. 

  • Magyar Arany Érdemkereszt – Tumpek Eta  

  • Magyar Érdemrend lovagkereszt polgári tagozat – Dr. Szarvas Zsuzsa 

  • Magyar Ezüst Érdemkereszt – Kis Zoltán 

2022. augusztus 20. 

  • Magyar Érdemrend lovagkereszt polgári tagozat – dr. Granasztói Péter  

  • Magyar Arany Érdemkereszt – Almásiné Kanyó Klára 

2022. október 27. 

  • Csák János miniszter által adományozott a Miniszter Elismerő Oklevele a Néprajzi Múzeum kollektívájának  

2023. április 18.  

  • Pulszky Társaság – Magyar Múzeumi Egyesület Balázsy Ágnes Díja – Bakosné Fábián Mária  

2023.  

  • Jankó János Díj – Bakos Áron 

  • Balázsy Ágnes-díj – Fábián Mária 

  • A Magyar Érdemrend lovagkeresztje – Veres Gábor 

 

2024. március 15. 

  • Kiss Margit - Magyar Arany Érdemkereszt polgári tagozat kitüntetés 

2025 

  • Perger Katalin - Magyar Arany Érdemkereszt polgári tagozat kitüntetés 

  

Dr. Lajos Kemecsi Director General's Recognitions

2022. augusztus 20.  

Tata Város Zsigmond Király Díja 

2022. decembere 

Kötődés Díj (a Szabadtéri Néprajzi Múzeum díja) 

2023. március 15. 

Magyar Érdemrend tisztikeresztje polgári tagozat 

2023. április 20. 

MúzeumCafé Díj 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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