Published: 2026. March 09.
OUR MISSION
The Library of the Hungarian Academy of Arts is a restricted public art special library. Our mission is to collect, preserve, and provide access to documents related to the history of the Academy and its academicians. The focus of our activities is the acquisition of documents related to and interpreting the life paths of 523 academicians–artists, as well as the development of the academicians’ special collection. The academic special library forms the foundation of the A-Z OPUS artistic life-path database. ••• OUR ORGANIZATION Örs Csete is the Head of the Digitalization and Reference Library Group at MMA Publishing, while the library is managed by Marianna Zsoldos. ••• OUR SERVICES • The academicians’ special collection, journals, and databases can be used on site • We assist with interlibrary loans and the compilation of bibliographies and scholarly literature • We provide a venue for events promoting artists and for meetings with artists ••• WHERE? Pesti Vigadó, Budapest V., Vigadó tér 2. ••• WHEN? Monday to Thursday 10:00 – 16:00 (academy day), Friday 10:00 – 14:00 (public day)
E-MAIL konyvtar@mmakiado.hu
AVAILABLE DATABASES
OUR LIBRARY CATALOGUE https://opac3.mma.monguz.hu/ • A-Z OPUS A-Z OPUS presents the life paths of members of the Hungarian Academy of Arts: nearly 50,000 works by more than 500 contemporary creators, biographies, and the milestones of artistic careers. https://azopus.hu • ARCANUM 91,895,965 pages of newspapers, magazines, scholarly journals, and selected content; Hungary’s largest continuously expanding digital periodical database. • NAVA Programs produced in Hungary or related to Hungary from Hungarian public service channels and the largest commercial television networks. • JSTOR Artstor Collection The Artstor database provides access to more than 2.5 million high-quality images to support education and research. • L'Harmattan Open Access és Archívum The database is a collection of professionally reviewed scholarly content, with approximately 1,700 archival publications and nearly 200 open-access academic publications available. • Akadémiai Digitális Archívum The collection contains 2.5 million pages from 8,000 volumes covering half a century of publications from Akadémiai Kiadó. • Akadémiai Kiadó MeRSZ The online smart library of Akadémiai Kiadó contains more than 1,000 mainly Hungarian-language reference works, scholarly books, university textbooks, and study materials. • Akadémiai Kiadó Szótárszolgáltatás Szotar.net offers bilingual dictionaries (foreign language–Hungarian and Hungarian–foreign language) for English, German, Finnish, French, Chinese, Latin, Dutch, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Serbian, Slovenian, and Greek, as well as specialized language databases in English and German.
AVAILABLE JOURNALS
Alföld • Ars Hungarica • Art Limes • Artmagazin • Bárka • Criticai Lapok • Élet És Irodalom • Életünk • Enigma • Építés- Építészettudomány • Erdélyi Múzeum • Ethnographia • Filmvilág • Folkmagazin • Forrás • Fotóművészet • Gramofon • Helikon - Hu • Helikon - Ro • Hitel • Irodalmi Jelen • Irodalmi Magazin • Irodalomtörténeti Közlemények (I.T.K.) • Jelenkor • Kalligram • Kommentár • Kortárs • Korunk • Látó • Literatura • Lyukasóra • Magyar Grafika • Magyar Iparművészet • Magyar Krónika • Magyar Kultúra • Magyar Műhely • Magyar Napló • Magyar Szemle • Magyar Teátrum • Metszet • Mozgó Világ • Műhely • Műút • Művészettörténeti Értesítő • Nyugat Plusz • Octogon • Országépítő • Országút • Palócföld • Parnasszus • Pesti Műsor • Prae • Régi- Új Magyar Építőművészet • Székelyföld • Szépirodalmi Figyelő • Tiszatáj • Új Művészet • Valóság • Vasi Szemle • Zenekar • Architectural • Review • Artforum • The Plan
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