The family of the famous family took art objects borrowed by the museum. Disagrees what to do with him
12. June 2025 at 17:11
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Director: This is a standard situation.
Hanušovce nad Topľou. Old paintings, silver service, seals and more together more than sixty artistic displays were taken from the depository of the Hanušov mansion on Thursday.
Art objects belong to the descendants of the Dessewffy family, who lent them to the Regional Museum in Prešov, whose organizational unit is the manor house in Hanušovce nad Topľou in the Vranov district.
Hanušov Museum on April 30 was left by his former leader Samuel Bruss after disagreements with director Ľuboš Olejník.
This situation was also addressed in May by the council of the Prešov self -governing region, which is the founder of the museum. MEPs decided to re -separated from Prešov, robe Milan Majerský (KDH), however, vetoed this resolution.
Employee testimonies, bad relationships. The vote on the museum has shown that the majestic lost the majority Read
They came for things
After the last events, the offspring of the Dessewffy family decided to take the objects that the museum exhibited. They have been borrowed since 2017, respectively. 2020, one of these borrowing contracts expired, the other was to pay by 2030, the management of the museum agreed to the addition of its early termination.
The museum remained four hundred subjects that the family had given to him in the past. Art objects were in the depository, as the mansion is currently under reconstruction.
« I have been thinking about taking it after the contract.
After her mother and Unk died, they lent these objects to the museum, now the family decided to take them back. « The museum is closed, Mr. Bruss is not there, so because, » she said, adding that the family was worried that Bruss had ended in the museum.
« For my mother, for my Unk, what was the last Dessewffy, probably Mr. Bruss did the most, and they and the whole family appreciated it very much. He picked up it, so to speak to the light of God, such a forgotten gender. We are sorry that it turned out. I believe it will be good.
Director: The collection will lend again
« Mrs. Bačová spoke to me by e -mail and asked me that she wanted to take the items back yesterday. We met yesterday (Wednesday) and we talked for an hour and a half and said they had been thinking for a long time. Since the museum was closed to take them for a while. reopening, will return them to fulfill the will of John Dessewffy and the subjects were in the museum, ”said Ľuboš Olejník, director of the Regional Museum in Prešov, who was present during the transfer of the disputes.
He described as a standard procedure that the owners would take the works back after the contract. In the case of the works in which the deadline was still running, the museum agreed to the amendment with its termination.
« We are glad that Mrs. Bačová declared that if they are needed in a permanent exhibition of Dessewffy, they will lend them to it again, » added Olejník. The manor house is expected to be reopened in a year to a year and a half.
Ľuboš Olejník. (Source: Corsair/Michal Frank)The escalated situation in the museum
According to Olejník, this situation is not related to the events of recent months in the museum. « After yesterday’s interview with Mrs. Bačová, I am convinced of it, » he said, saying that he does not know the motives of the family and the information she came from.
« We met, I explained to her the situation that the functioning of the museum is not endangered, nine of thirteen employees in Hanušovce remains nine. The museum has a total of 31 employees. Several positions are replaced by people who have PhD.
Bruss: it’s a shame
« It is a great shame. It was the only estate that came to the museum not by nationalizing or by the decision of the District National Committee, but it was a gift of the love of the things they did. And those they borrowed were a matter of trust.
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