They wrote the songs for us!

Hungarian pop music is present in the lives of all generations. The temporary exhibition of the House of Music 2023, which opened on 22 January 2023, promises a real journey through time to an era that is certainly familiar to many, perhaps nostalgic, but definitely inescapable.

They wrote the song for us! The House of Music's temporary exhibition "The golden age of Hungarian popular music and its social impact from 1957 to the regime change" uses exciting technical solutions to guide the audience through the first three decades of Hungarian pop music with a social, political and sociological perspective. In addition to the traditional exhibition tools, the temporary exhibition space features creative, interactive solutions that playfully engage visitors in discovery.

The 900-square-metre exhibition is divided into 8 thematic blocks, giving an insight into everyday life in the period. The exhibition focuses not only on the most prominent artists, bands, emblematic hits and key pop history events of the politically charged era, but also on the fan subcultures associated with them and the media that were essential to the spread of popular music, the institutional system, which fundamentally limited the scope of musicians and was subject to strong political censorship, the world of clubs, tours and instruments, and the changing relationship between popular music culture and the performing arts.