Night of Museums 2026
Budapest Gallery
1036 Budapest, Lajos utca 158.
20 June 2026, 5:00 PM – 11:00 PM
On 20 June, from 5:00 PM to 11:00 PM, Budapest Gallery can only be visited with a Night of Museums wristband, which can also be purchased on-site.
The exhibition can be viewed on the same day with an admission ticket between 12:00 PM – 16:00 PM
During the Night of Museums, the programs connected to Budapest Gallery’s international group exhibition “Keep me signed in?” explore the borderlands between the digital world and analogue experience. Children are invited into playful imaginary worlds, while adults can take part in collaborative workshops using storytelling, music, photomontage, poetry, and secret messages to reflect together on the possibilities of human imagination in the age of artificial intelligence.
PROGRAMS
5:00-7:00 PM
MIRROR PLAY
Creative Workshop, Music-Making and Drama Games for Children
On the Night of Museums, children visiting Budapest Gallery are invited to step across the boundary between reality and imagination. In the gallery courtyard, they can move, play, make music, and create their own fantastical worlds, where anything can happen with the help of costumes, puppets, and sound. Using colourful foils, cardboard, paper, textiles, and yarn, participants will create the props and sets for surreal tableaux and unbelievable stories. Gathering around a magical frame, they can perform their own tales, become characters in one another’s narratives, and move freely between fiction and reality, delightfully deceiving both each other and the audience.
Contributors:
Tünde Geisbühl (art educator), Emese Váradi (textile designer), Brigitta Dőry (actor), and Magor Szabolcs Keresztes (percussionist)
7:00 - 8:00 PM
Curator-Led Tour of the International Group Exhibition “Keep me signed in”?
7:00-9:00 PM
THE SECRET SAFE
Workshop for Adults
The aim of András Cséfalvay’s artwork “Unknown Unknown” is to offer a chance of resistance against an out-of-control artificial intelligence. Inspired by the project, participants in this workshop will create photomontages, maps, technical drawings, and poems, which will then be hidden inside secret cylinders. Together, we will assemble a repository of analogue ideas and creations – works that remain beyond the reach and capabilities of artificial intelligence.
Contributors:
Tünde Geisbühl (art educator), Krisztina Horváth (photographer), Máté Áron Szabó (poetry workshop leader), and Emese Váradi (textile designer).
9:00 - 10:00 PM
Curator-Led Tour of the International Group Exhibition “Keep me signed in”?