Showing posts with label Pitt Hungarian Room. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pitt Hungarian Room. Show all posts

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.