Wednesday, December 20, 2023

REVISITING THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH'S NATIONALITY ROOMS PROGRAM : HUNGARIAN ROOM

NATIONALITY ROOMS at PITT : UNIVERSITY OF PITTBURGH 

There are many rooms to visit featuring ethnic identities from those nations that were important to immigration to the Steel City.

Excerpt: The Hungarian Room features folk art designs and colors, especially so in the ceiling panels painted by a Budapest artist and sent to Pittsburgh in the 1930's. Repeated tulip patterns abound there and in the furniture's woodcarvings.

The windows show a timeline of Hungarian national birth, from legendary foundations to the seven tribes, all the way to 19th century artistic flowering of Hungarian voices in poetry, painting and music.