Blinken OSA's Research Room will reopen on Wednesday, June 16. All visitors with valid Hungarian COVID-19 vaccination health cards can use the Research Room. Social distancing, wearing of masks and hand disinfection will remain obligatory. Online registration is required. Our Digitization on Demand service is still available for remote research.

Events / Announcements
The future repository of the archives at Potočari. Photo: Azir Osmanovic
Archival Training Program for the Potočari Memorial Center begins on International Archives Day
Colleagues participate in a week-long training program as volunteer instructors for the Potočari Memorial Center.
Announcement - posted on 9/Jun/2021
Photo from the project by Dezső Gyarmati
New Online Exhibition by the Students of the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design
Students of the joint course by the Blinken OSA and MOME present their works in a new online exhibition.
Announcement - posted on 3/Jun/2021
The “Budapest Week” photo archives
The “Budapest Week” Project
A project to help to digitize, process, and host the first four years of the “Budapest Week” and related documents.
Announcement - posted on 28/May/2021
Photo: RFE/ RL source Hoover Institute
Visegrad Call – Visegrad Scholarship at the Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives
Theme of the call: Possibilities of knowing: Truth seeking in a polarized world and [in] its aftermath
Announcement - posted on 14/May/2021
Damir Očko: DICTA I, 2017 courtesy of the artist
Exhibitions Online – Galeria Centralis
A variety of Blinken OSA exhibitions are available online, including the recently opened Order and Dreams.
Announcement - posted on 10/May/2021
Blog Posts / Podcasts
“Highly Important Personal Implications” – On the 50th Anniversary of György Lukács’s Death

It is a cliché that famous people always have a faithful and industrious partner beside (or behind) them, serving their masters by...
Blog - posted on 4/Jun/2021
But Who Is A “Kosseur?” – New Cold War Theater Collection at Blinken OSA
The coming addition to the Curated Collections was compiled by Balázs Leposa, archivist at the Blinken OSA, and will be available soon...
Blog - posted on 25/May/2021
Malfunction: the Hungarian Radio (Silence) on Chernobyl

The Chernobyl nuclear accident happened thirty-five years ago, on April 26, 1986. The Blinken OSA commemorates the anniversary by...
Blog - posted on 26/Apr/2021
Tradition, Economic Efficiency and Cosmic Achievement: Gagarin in Hungary

Sixty years ago, on April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin completed one orbit of Earth, and accomplished the first manned spaceflight in history...
Blog - posted on 13/Apr/2021
The Eichmann Trial and Radio Free Europe

The Eichmann trial began sixty years ago today, on April 11, 1961, in Jerusalem, Israel. The German-Austrian Adolf Eichmann was the...
Blog - posted on 11/Apr/2021

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