THE REPUBLIC OF HUNGARY 
2004
Consultants: Paxton Barnes • Grant Beglarian • Alexander Brody • Schuyler C. Chapin • Andre H. Friedman • Honee Hess • Michalann Hobson • Bradford Kelleher • Brian Lacey • Sharon Litwin • Peter Lyman • Amy Módly • Pamela Myers • Ward Mintz • Jane D. Norman • Jillian Poole • Charles Ritcheson • Julius Rudel • Jane Safer • George Stuart Sexton III • Wendy Tiffin • Linda Vadasz • Deborah Ziska
Hungary
In the spring of 2004, The Fund had a brief consultation with the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest. The intricacies of Trustee responsibilities in the West and how such roles might be adapted to the realities in Hungary were discussed in detail.
In the fall, Dr. Laszlo Baan, the former undersecretary of Hungary’s Ministry of Culture and director general designate of the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest, asked The Fund to assist in scheduling his visits to museums in Washington and New York and meeting a few of their leaders between 8 and 14 November.
Dr. Baan was primarily interested in general museum operations, particularly the responsibilities of the curatorial staff, the process of creating exhibitions, children’s programming and the areas of marketing, merchandising and education. Deborah Ziska of the National Gallery and Jillian Poole arranged visits and introductions in Washington, and Jane Safer arranged introductions in New York. In addition to others, in Washington Dr. Baan had meetings with Rusty Powell, director of the National Gallery, Mark Pachter, director of the National Portrait Gallery, Chase Rynd, director of the National Building Museum and Cathy Southern, director of the National Children’s Museum. In New York he met with Jay Levenson, director of International Programs at MOMA, Samuel Sachs, former director of The Frick Museum, the president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the heads of various divisions in that Museum.
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