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Budapest
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2025.04.07. - 2025.04.11.
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2025.03.28. - 2025.05.11.
Budapest
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2025.03.05. - 2025.09.15.
Budapest
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Budapest
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2012.02.01. - 2012.02.29.
Miskolc
2012.01.22. - 1970.01.01.
Budapest
2011.10.04. - 1970.01.01.
Nagykáta
2011.10.01. - 1970.01.01.
Nagykáta
2011.10.01. - 1970.01.01.
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2011.09.30. - 1970.01.01.
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2011.09.30. - 1970.01.01.
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Budapest
Budapest History Museum - Budapest
The emuseum entrance opens from the inner yard of the castle
Address: 1014, Budapest Szent György tér 2.
Phone number: (1) 487-8800, (1) 487-8801
Opening hours: Tue-Sun 10-18
The exhibition has closed for visitors.
2012.09.28. - 2013.01.13.
education, free time, leisure time, temporary exhibition, theatre
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Museum tickets, service costs:
Ticket for adults
2000 HUF
Ticket for students
1000 HUF
Group ticket for students
(over 10 people)
500 HUF
Ticket for pensioners
1000 HUF
Ticket for families
2200 HUF
/ family
Group guide
(up to 20 people)
7000 HUF
Group guide
(20-30 people)
9500 HUF
Group guide
14000 HUF
Group guide
18000 HUF
Audio guide
1200 HUF
Photography
1000 HUF
Only a few people connects the name of Sári Fedák a famous prima donna with Pestszentlőrinc. Pestszentlőrinc (nowdays the 18th District of Budapest) was a town at the southeastern border of the capital, where the distribution of lands were in progress between the two world wars. The most elegant part was the „Szalla-wald”, the area of villas and holiday houses near the Gyöngyvirág Street. The politician-physicist Loránd Eötvös, the inventor of the telephone exchange Tivadar Puskás and the biologist Tivadar Margó also owned a villa here.

Sári Fedák bought the Biehn-villa for her parents at Gyöngyvirág Street in Pestszentlőrinc in 1917. She became a resident only in 1929. Shortly she joined in the social and the political life of the settlement. She was not only "virilis", but also in 1934 she was elected to be the president of the National Unity’s female wing. Truly she hold the position until November of 1935.

The mother of the actress was buried next to her husband dr. István Fedák in the old cemetery of Pestszentlőrinc in 1935. The father of Sári Fedák died in 1920. During the burial ceremony a huge crowd was gathered. The ceremony was held by dr. Béla Wimmerth, a well-known local priest.

In 1938 Sári Fedák demolished the villa, the demolition materials and the land which divided into smaller parcels were sold. It’s interesting that the parts of the building (doors, windows, tile stove) were found in local houses during our researches. The locals are not denying the origins of the materials because they bought them legally.

On the exhibition the visitors can learn about the careers of the actress Sári Fedák, her role in political and social life of Pestszentlőrinc and her villa's fate. We present the appurtenances and the furnitures of the Fedák-villa at the end of the exhibition.

So the subject is settlement history on a slightly different way. The exhibition presents the living of the first half of the 20th century, the world of theaters and a present-day phenomenon, the earliest presence of the modern cult of celebrity.

The personal items of the actress are important parts of the exhibition. These objects are lent from Hungarian Theater Museum and Institute: Fedák's Memorial Album with metal ornaments, four-string guitar with the crest of Prince Bob on the obverse, her letters from Pestszentlőrinc.

The black cocktail dress with rhinestones and red beads visualizes Sári Fedák's former opulence and the pomp of theaters.

The exhibition consits of materials of Tomory Lajos Pedagogic and Local History Collection, Hungarian Theater Museum and Institue, National Széchényi Library's Theater History Collection and Hungarian National Museum's Historical Repository.