Earth Day ● Interactive family day at the Hungarian Natural History Museum
On the occasion of the Earth Day, the staff of the Hungarian Natural History Museum welcomes all visitors with interactive playful family programmes, scientific presentations and honey tasting.
Earth Day has been raising awareness about the protection of the Earth's natural environment in Hungary since 1990. "Who said you can't change the world?" - This is one of the slogans of the Earth Day movement. Every year (since 1990), more and more people in Hungary feel that they are trying to do something about it.
Venue: Hungarian Natural History Museum (1083 Budapest, Ludovika square 2-6.) Exhibition Hall.
Date: 22 April 2023 (Saturday) 9:00-15:00
The event is open to the public with a museum pass, which also entitles you to visit our exhibitions!
Schedule
INTERACTIVE STANDS:
Exhibition Hall, 9:00-15:00
- Cat conservation in our country and the world
- Bats and light pollution
- Minerals and Minerals Inventory: minerals and mineral treasures of 2023
- Water footprint
- And what have we done? - Historical examples of sustainable and unsustainable societies
- A new era for humanity: the Anthropocene
- The new age of humanity - the Anthropocene
EXHIBITION OPENING:
Exhibition Hall, 11:00
Brazil through the eyes of an artist
The exhibition offers an insight into the vibrant beauty of Brazil through the work of German-born painter Wilhelm Wöller and Brazilian photographer Lucas Lenci.
OTHER PROGRAMMES:
- Honey tasting (Gódor Beekeeping)
Hungarian Natural History Museum
The Hungarian Natural History Museum (HNHM) with its two affiliated countryside museums (the Mátra Museum of Gyöngyös and the Bakony Museum of Zirc) is one of the largest scientific and cultural institutions in Hungary, employing about 200 staff members.
Its mission is to raise and to sustain the awareness of the society towards the recognition and acceptance of the diversity of nature, and to ensure the commitment of the public to the preservation of the natural environment.
The Hungarian Natural History Museum (HNHM) houses extensive botanical, zoological, anthropological, paleontological and geological collections of more than ten million specimens and over 65,000 primary types. The collection uniquely represents the natural history of Hungary and the Carpathians, but highly valuable items originate also from other parts of the Earth. These irreplaceable assets render the museum the ultimate hallmark of bio- and geodiversity in Hungary.
The collections and other scientific facilities of HNHM are used annually by approx. 350 researchers from all over the world. Research activities cover the fields of taxonomy, ecology, evolutionary biology, conservation biology, geology, paleontology and physical anthropology.
The museum’s exhibitions attract approximately 300.000 visitors annually.