On 5 May 2025, the 2024 volume of the Hungarian Economic History Yearbook was presented at the Szekfű Gyula Library of the ELTE Faculty of Humanities. Edited by György Kövér, Ágnes Pogány and Boglárka Weisz, this volume is the [...]
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08
Mar
2025
Stock photos added to the portal
The Stock Exchange Museum portal has been extended with photos of the stocks featured on the site, available in Hungarian public collections (mainly the Hungarian National Museum). This means that there are about 293 photos, which [...]
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A new volume of economic history studies has been published to mark the 100th anniversary of the Magyar Nemzeti Bank. The book was presented at a ceremony at the headquarters of the Magyar Nemzeti Bank on 5 February 2025 [...]
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Csaba Domonkos, the permanent author of the Museum of the Stock Exchange, continued to work on the history of transport companies. Of the transport companies, the railways were founded between 1860-70. The largest [...]
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20
Dec
2024
The history of the steam mills is finished
Róbert Szabó, the permanent author of the Museum of Steam, has completed the history of steam mills. The steam mills, mostly located in Budapest, were founded in the 1860s and 70s by grain merchants. Since they [...]
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A new author has once again joined the Tőzsdemuseum, Mária Hidvégi, a renowned researcher of Hungarian electrical engineering companies and formerly the historian of Tungsram Operations Ltd. Mária has revised the E [...]
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01
Oct
2024
An interesting plaque
Although the Wall Street Museum is primarily a virtual museum, physical objects are occasionally added to the collection. This was the case this time, when we acquired a silver plaque commemorating the Győri Textilművek [...]
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01
Aug
2024
Steam mills and their founders
Our regular contributor, Róbert Szabó, has started to work on the history of steam mills. Steam mills were very popular after the stock exchange was founded, with nine of the top 100 companies. [...]
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01
Jul
2024
New author in the Budapest Exhange Museum
We are pleased to announce the addition of Csaba Domonkos to the Tőzsdemuseum's authorship. Csaba is the chief museologist at the Hungarian Museum of Technology and Transport and recently published a book on the history of the Chain Bridge, [...]
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A scientific article on the history of the Museum of Stock Exchange project was published in Hungarian and English in the journal of the Hungarian Banking Association, Gazdaság és Pénzügy 2024/2. The authors of the article are Márton Radnai and [...]
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