Night of Museums at the ELTE University Library and Archives

According to our tradition, we will join the Night of Museums on the 21st of June 2025. From 3 p.m. until midnight, our library welcomes all visitors with craft activities, fire enamelling and calligraphy workshops, film screenings, concerts, building tours, guided tours at the restoration workshop and our Jókai memorial exhibition. Tickets will be available at the entrance from the 2nd of June 2025.

Our calligraphy and bookbinding workshop is open for children and adults from 15.00 this year.

Our evening programmes open at 18.00 with a concert by the ELTE „Eötvös” Art Ensemble. Families, adults and children are also invited to the screening of the Hungarian cartoon Saffi, the Treasure of Swamp Castle based on the 1885 novel The Gypsy Baron by Mór Jókai, also from 18.00 on the occasion of the Jókai Memorial Year.

On our Hungarian and English library tours, visitors can learn about the history of the library palace and the Perczel Globe, and take a look behind the scenes at our historic library. Guided by our restorer, you can gain an insight into paper-casting and bookbinding techniques, along with the process of book disinfection.

We invite you to visit the memorial exhibition Jókai 200 – The writer of a nation, the soul of a century from 15.30 in our storeroom.

The night will be enriched by a concert of the Fuvalom (Windward) singing group starting at 20.30 and a screening of the film The Man with the Golden Touch from 21.00.

Guests will be able to colour in their own bookmarks, take part in our Jókai quiz for small prizes and build our library palace, reassemble fragments of our codex pages and „life pictures” of Mór Jókai related to his fate and works with our library puzzle.

The doors to the enamel workshop will also be open, where visitors will be able to create unique souvenirs.

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.

Source/author of illustration: https://muzej.hu/