New Logo and Identity for Museum of Ethnography by Explicit Design Studio & de_form studio

Established in 1872 as the Ethnographic Department within the Hungarian National Museum, the Museum of Ethnography (“Néprajzi Múzeum” in Hungarian), established as an independent institution in 1947 in Budapest, Hungary, is, as its name implies, a museum of ethnography — the systematic study of people and cultures — that has been collecting, archiving, preserving, researching, and transmitting the traditional and modern cultural artifacts of Hungarian, European, and world communities. As one Europe’s most prestigious social science museums, it houses more than 200,000 ethnographic artifacts, coupled with a unique archive of photographs, manuscripts, folk music recordings, and films with a focus on Hungarian folk culture but also holds a significant body of material on foreign c