Scientific explorers of the Carpathian Basin

This exhibition gives a taste of the academic achievements of the professionals engaged in the exploration of the Carpathian Basin, an area that includes Hungary. In the first part of the foreground, the display cabinets contain objects depicting the earliest “writers of geography”, followed by the representatives of geography, a science of increasing significance in the 19th century (Lajos Lóczy, Jenő Cholnoky, Pál Teleki).

The next generation of geographical exploration is shown in the hall Geographers and geologists, where social scientists are also commemorated. In the fourth hall the memories of early Hungarian cartography are on display, including old cartographical tools and devices. The last room commemorates the scientists of the greatest achievements in Hungarian cave research and spelunking, where an installation creates the atmosphere of a cave for the visitor. In the second half of the entrance corridor, a separate unit is devoted to the researchers of Transylvania.