Tadeusz Rolke Archive at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw

An archive of several tens of thousands of photographs representing the life’s work of one of the most acclaimed Polish photographers – Tadeusz Rolke. It comprises photoreports on the everyday and cultural life in Warsaw, fashion photography and documentation of avant-garde events from the mid-1950s until 1970, as well as photos depicting Polish society during the “carnival” of “Solidarity” in 1980, during the martial law, the transformation in 1989, and the alternative culture of the 1980s.

Location:
- Warszawa Pańska 3, Poland
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Date of founding:
- 1945
Featured items:
- Eustachy and Matylda, photo, 1960

Tamás Csapody’s private collection

The private collection of Tamás Csapody (1960–) includes documents related to movements for the reform of the compulsory military service and the introduction of alternative civilian service. Refusal to perform military service was an illegal act in the countries of the Warsaw Pact. Csapody’s collection, as the only collection focusing this specific topic, contributes to remembering the stories of people who were penalized by the laws of the Kádár regime because of freedom of thought, conscience, and religion.

Location:
- Budapest, Hungary
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Date of founding:
- 1980
Featured items:
- Without Violence (1988), dir. Tamás Csapody, Amateur documentary

Tamás Cseh Archive

The Tamás Cseh Archive is an interdisciplinary collection focusing on the materials related to the life and oeuvre of the legendary singer. His songs authenthically capture the atmosphere of the era, the feelings, moods and problems faced by the members of a generation that came of age in the 1960s and early 1970s and had to confront the complexities of integrating into socialist society. The goal of the archive is to present its materials in context, adding to the documents with oral history recordings of Cseh‘s contemporaries.

Location:
- Budapest Úri utca 54, Hungary 1014
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Date of founding:
- 2013
Featured items:
- Antoine and Désiré, 1978. LP
- The story of the red indian of Bakony

Tamás Szőnyei Poster Collection

Tamás Szőnyei worked as a music journalist in Budapest in the 1980s, and his poster collection documenting the underground music scene, especially new wave and punk, is one of the largest in Hungary. Posters were designed in a large part by the contemporary artists playing in the bands. This is a private collection that was digitized by Artpool Art Research Center, and the originals are regularly borrowed for thematic exhibitions in Hungary and elsewhere.

Location:
- Budapest, Hungary
Topics:
- music (rock, punk, alternative, classical, etc.)
- visual arts
Date of founding:
- 1978
Featured items:
- Kistamás, László. Kontroll Csoport Concert, Mátyásföld, 1983. Poster
- Molnár, Gergely and István Rész. Anna Frank Memorial Evening by Spions, 1978. Poster

The Archive of the Opposition in KARTA Centre

The Archive of Opposition is one of the oldest activities of the KARTA Centre. It was established in 1991 as “The Archive of the Polish People’s Republic” and gathered all the materials concerning political life in Poland since 1956 to 1989, especially in connection to the events of 1956, 1968, 1970, 1980. In 1998 the archive changed its name to “The Archive of Opposition”, which reflects greater awareness of the specificity of the opposition in the Polish People’s Republic: its diversity extending beyond merely political actions. In the Archive researchers and journalists can find a very rich, written and visual material on the newest Polish political and social history.

Location:
- Warszawa, Ul. Narbutta 29
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Date of founding:
- 1991
Featured items:
- Zdzisław Najder Personal Collection, items, 1960s - 1990s