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Partner Projects

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Budapest100 (since 2011)
Budapest100 is a two-day cultural festival centering around architecture. It is a celebration of communities and the city, a weekend, that brings city dwellers and neighbors closer together and draws attention to the built values around us. It was launched by the Archivum and KÉK – Contemporary Architecture Centre in 2011.
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Virtual Filmstrip Museum (since 2006)
The Filmstrip History Collection is the only private collection of filmstrips in Hungary, reflecting more than 40 years of research and organization.
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Hidden layers. Archives and data management (2020)
The joint course of the Media design master’s programme at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design and Blinken OSA Archivum.
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The Hungarian Policeman Archive
The history of the socialist Hungary through the eyes of the Ministry of Interior. Training, shooting range, interrogations and celebrations. Illegal bordercrossers, detectives, conspirators and thieves. 65431 photos never seen before from the archives of the periodical 'Hungarian Police'.
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Petőfi Circle (2016)
On the sixtieth anniversary of the first meeting of the Petőfi Circle in 1956, the ELTE Faculty of Social Sciences, the Árpád Göncz Foundation, and the Blinken OSA Archivum organised a series of debates for young people entitled "Petofi Circle 2016".
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Voices of the 20th Century Archive (since 2009)
The Voices of the 20th Century Archive (Voices) project is led by the Institute of Sociology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in cooperation with the Archivum and the National Audiovisual Archive of Hungary (NAVA). The purpose of the project is to analyze how different types of interview material can be enhanced through digital technologies ...
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The Trial (2008)
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the trial by People's Jury of Imre Nagy and his fellow defendants, OSA Archivum, jointly with the 1956 Institute, organized an unusual, one-week-long event.
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Fortepan
Fortepan is a free-to-use, community photo archive where users can browse and download over 100,000 archive photos for free, in high quality. Fortepan was launched with the technical support of the Archivum and financial backing from the Kortörténeti Alapítvány.
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Charity auctions supporting the homeless (1999-2012)
Together with Szalmaszál Alapítvány, the Archivum organized a yearly contemporary art auction with generous offers from renowned Hungarian artists.
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Encode the Past! 1956 Remixed - Student Competition (2016)
As part of the series of projects, “The Revolution is Not the Past!” a student competition was launched jointly with Prezi.
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The Story of My Cowardice (2021/22)
In November 2021, Litera.hu and the Blinken OSA Archivum launched a joint venture entitled "The Story of My Cowardice", which included an open, and an invitation only literary competition.
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Raoul Wallenberg's Office in Second Life (2007)
On May 30, 2007, OSA Archivum and the Swedish Institute opened Raoul Wallenberg's Office at the Embassy of Sweden in Second Life.
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Open Document Format Alliance Hungary (since 2008)
The Archivum was one of the initiators and founding members of the Hungarian Chapter of the Open Document Format Alliance (ODF Alliance). ODF Alliance Hungary promotes the use of the international standard Open Document Format, encouraging research on its application and developing the Hungarian terminology to support its use.
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Europe for Citizens: Remembrance 2016 (2016/17)
The project aimed at collecting source materials in Poland, Germany, Czech Republic and Hungary on the common experience of the citizens of the former Eastern Bloc, which is the result of the political thaw of 1956.
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Europeana 1989 (2012-2014)
The Archivum was member of the 48-partner consortium to work on the Europeana 1989 project, which is a Best Practice Network of libraries, archives, and museums, as well as digital developers and innovators led by the Europeana Foundation.
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Comintern (Communist International) Project (1996-2003)
An electronic database containing 220,000 files and 1,000,000 digitized pages of the Communist International materials at the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History in Moscow.
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European Union Culture 2000: History After the Fall - The Interdeterminacy of the Short Twentieth Century (2004-2008)
The Archivum carried out the project in cooperation with five research institutions specialized in the recent history of Central and Eastern Europe. The complex project consisted in a series of seminars, workshops, and exhibitions.
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Regional Seminar for Excellence in Teaching "Alternative Culture Beyond Borders" (2007-2010)
The seminar was a three-year international research and educational project that brought together young scholars, educators, and professionals primarily from the former socialist countries to discuss the problems of alternative culture.
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Martus: The Tool for Human Rights Activists (2001-2014)
The Archivum hosted a Martus server, a secure and remote safe to store and preserve information gathered by human rights activists and investigative journalists.
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Public Digital Archive of the OHR in BiH (since 2007)
The Archivum is currently cooperating with Office of the High Representative on a project to digitize their public archive for preservation and research purposes. The project covers 20,000 documents on the activities of OHR
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Heritage of the People's Europe (2010-2013)
The Archivum participated as a research partner and content provider in a three-year European Union project entitled the Heritage of the People's Europe (HOPE).