The historic exhibition "History in 360 Degrees", organized on the occasion of the 170th anniversary of the revolution and the liberation struggle of 1848-1849 with the assistance of the Government of Hungary under the patronage of the Visegrad Four, was recently officially opened in the Y. Bokshay Art Museum in Uzhgorod.
According to the director of the museum, Francisk Erfan, the exhibition consists of three parts. The first one is the so-called Transylvanian panorama, which is kept in the museum of the Polish city of Tarnow. It depicts the most important victorious battle during the revolution and the liberation struggle of 1848 -1849, which took place on March 11, 1848 in the city of Nagyszeben (now Sibiu) in Hungary. This work was completed in 1897, it was made by a native of Lviv, Jan Stik, at the request of the Hungarians. The panorama is 120 meters long and 15 meters high. The director of the Tarnow Museum in Poland, Andrzej Špunar, who attended the press conference, in particular, told that only 36 fragments of the panorama have been preserved, and they have 18 of them. 8 fragments were brought to Uzhgorod.
Another display is the story of the famous "Feszty Panorama" brought by representatives of the national historical memorial park of the city of Ópusztaszer in Hungary. Here, they exhibited a model of it. This circular panorama with an area of 1800 square meters was created in 1896 in Budapest by the artist Arpad Feszty in honor of the 1000th anniversary of the founding of the Hungarian state. It depicts more than two thousand characters on it and it is called "Arrival of the Hungarians to the Carpathian Basin".
And finally, the third display is the tableau of different panoramas of the world (the battle of Waterloo, etc.).
The exhibition will last until mid-April.
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