The exhibition seeks to commemorate both the 200th anniversary of the birth of Mór Jókai and the bicentenary of the founding of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Linking the two events highlights how Jókai’s career as a writer and editor was closely intertwined with the development of Hungarian scientific thought and popular science. His oeuvre faithfully reflects the paradigm shifts of his era: his works incorporate the latest discoveries in geography, geology, botany, biology, astronomy, archaeology, and linguistics, as well as the related achievements of engineering and technology.
The exhibition reveals this lesser-known yet highly intriguing layer of the writer’s creations: it demonstrates how scientific insights and technological innovations became not merely subjects, but also text-shaping forces in Jókai’s novels, and how they appear in the manuscripts, letters, illustrations, and first editions preserved by the museum.
Curator: Dr. Zsuzsanna Rózsafalvi
Research Associates: Márta Parragi, Miklós Veres
Graphic Design: Gábor Bogdándy
Visual Design: Gyula Kemény
