An exhibition entitled Coffee is King is on display from Wednesday at the Electrotechnical Collection of the Hungarian Museum of Technology and Transport, located on Kazinczy Street in downtown Budapest. The exhibition presents the cultural, gastronomic, and technical history of coffee in an interactive way.
The exhibition “offers a taste of 300 years of coffee history, from camel caravans to the new wave,” according to a statement sent to MTI by the museum on Tuesday.
The first major temporary exhibition on the history of coffee in Hungary since 2010 will be accompanied by coffee-themed programs, a new wave café, surprise guests, concerts, workshops, regular guided tours, and museum education activities.
The institution, which also preserves Hungary’s technical heritage, set out to create the most comprehensive exhibition on the history of coffee ever held in Hungary.
The new exhibition opened in the renovated exhibition hall of the Electrotechnical Collection on Kazinczy Street in the 7th district.
The exhibition, entitled Fő a kávé (Coffee is King), takes visitors on a journey from the siege of Vienna in 1683 through the flourishing coffee houses of Pest to the latest coffee-drinking habits of today. Visitors can learn how black coffee was brewed in a pot in Petőfi’s time (Sándor Petőfi, Hungary’s most famous national poet and a key figure in 19th-century literature – editor’s note) and get a closer look at today’s coffee consumption trends.
The exhibition begins with the first recorded coffee trade in Pest, then touches on the Reform Era, the world of the Pilvax coffee house, the golden age of coffee houses, socialist cafés, and finally the most sophisticated technologies of the present day.
Visitors can try being coffee sellers, merchants, street vendors, writers, and modern baristas with the help of audio recordings, iconic film clips, anecdotes, games, and interactive elements—among dozens of coffee machines and artifacts in authentically decorated spaces.
The series of programs related to the world’s second most consumed beverage begins with the opening weekend of Ziccerben a zacc (Coffee in Ziccer), followed by the event Így kávéztak ők (This is how they drank coffee) on March 15. Following the Coffee Bar Bazaar at the end of March, Noémi Szuna, author of the book Csészével a világ körül (Around the World with a Cup), will join the Fő a kávé exhibition on a monthly basis as a professional supporter, participating in panel discussions, guided tours, and summer outdoor events. Guided tours by cultural historian Noémi Saly and writer-historian Gyula Zeke, the curator of the exhibition, are also part of the program.
The exhibition is particularly valuable because representatives of the Hungarian coffee industry have also supported the initiative.
The exhibition is organized by the Hungarian Museum of Technology and Transport, the Hungarian Museum of Trade and Hospitality, the Museum of Applied Arts, the Kiscelli Museum, the Museum of Ethnography, the Petőfi Literary Museum, as well as partner institutions and collaborating partners who contributed to the exhibition with their expertise, artifacts, tools, cooperation, and other assistance.
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Via MTI; Featured photo: Fortepan / Bauer Sándor
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