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Mikes Kelemen Program - Twin Cities Collection Location

Posted on: July 24, 2014

The purpose of program is to protect the intellectual heritage of Hungarian immigrants and to collect various objects such as books, newspapers, flyers, posters, brochures, invites, manuscripts, photographs as well as audio and visual recordings found in the Hungarian diaspora and transfer them to the appropriate institutions, libraries and schools in Hungary and the Carpathian Basin.

IMPORTANT DATE(s)

- September 5, 2014 - Please note that materials can be delivered locally to the Honorary Consulate Office (St.Louis Park, Minnesota) before September 5, 2014. Materials collected by the Minnesota Hungarians will be transported together to the warehouse in Chicago in the beginning of September, 201.

- Although materials can be sent directly to the storage house too (the closest in Chicago) until September 31, 2014.

If you wish to drop your donation at the Honorary Consulate Office and let Minnesota Hungarians take care of the transportation of your materials to the storehouse in Chicago please make an appointment:

- Eszter Mészáros - Intern, Minnesota Hungarians | E-mail: mhdiasporaintern@gmail.com | Phone: 612 590 3209

- Honorary Consulate Office | E-mail: csgrauzer@hungaryconsulateminnesota.com | Phone: 612-554-6227 (Csilla Grauzer, Hon.Consul)

Twin Cities Collection Location: Honorary Consulate Office, 5009 Excelsior Blvd Suite #154, St.Louis Park, MN 55416

DONATION can be NOT ONLY books, BUT

- newspapers

- printouts - posters, booklets, invitation cards, etc

- manuscripts > please indicate the following data on the box: name, address (city, state) and an e-mail address for possible further information needed for processing the materials.

- photos, motion picture- and audio-recording > please indicate who, where, when and on what occasions are featured on them.

Please contact your friends or people in your mind who may have such materials to donate and inform them about the program.

Thank you,

Honorary Consulate of Hungary, Minnesota

MIKES KELEMEN PROGRAM

Mikes Kelemen Program focuses on preserving the diaspora's material heritage, collecting its elements in a systematic manner, transferring them to Hungary and making provision for their appropriate utilization. The program was established with the cooperation of the State Secretariat for Hungarian Communities Abroad of the Ministry of Public Administration and Justice and the National Szechenyi Library.

Unused books, documents and other material heritage related to Hungary are expected to be delivered to our store-houses between January 1 and September 30, 2014. They will then be transferred to Hungary, where the National Szechenyi Library will take care of them.

Donations will mainly be distributed to libraries and schools of the Carpathian Basin. Furthermore, we are planning to support public collections located in Hungary and the Carpathian Basin, which already include a significant emigrant collection.

Read more about the program: Mikes Kelemen Program | minnesotahungarians.com