Notes
1 Museum professionals were from the Ludwig Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest) and freelance contemporary art museum educators.
2 Hungary is home to the following contemporary art museums: the Museum of Fine Arts – Hungarian National Gallery, the Kassak Museum and the Kiscell Museum, all in Budapest, and the MODEM Center for Modern and Contemporary Art in Debrecen.
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Zsuzsanna Fehér
Zsuzsanna Fehér is Deputy Director of Marketing and Communications at the Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art in Budapest and a Lecturer at Corvinus University of Budapest. She holds an MA in Art History from the ELTE Faculty of Humanities, Budapest and she obtained her Doctorate from Corvinus University of Budapest in 2023. Her research is related to sustainable museums and museum communication.
Melanie Kay Smith
Melanie Kay Smith is an Associate Professor at Budapest Business University in Hungary, and a Research Associate in the Department of Historical and Heritage Studies, Faculty of Humanities, at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. She is a specialist in cultural tourism and previously ran Masters programmes in cultural tourism, heritage, arts and museum management at the University of Greenwich in London. She was Chair of ATLAS (Association for Tourism and Leisure Education and Research) for seven years and has undertaken consultancy work for the UNWTO (United Nations World Tourism Organization) and ETC (European Travel Commission). She has written over 100 articles in the fields of cultural, urban and health tourism.
Katalin Ásványi
Katalin Ásványi is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Sustainability Management and Environmental Economics at Corvinus University of Budapest. She teaches courses in both English and Hungarian focusing on sustainability management, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and CSR communication at the BA, MA and postgraduate levels. She specialises in sustainable museums and business education for sustainability. She chairs the Steering Committee of the university’s new ERS Hub, an initiative that strives to bring together faculty members and their initiative in fields of ethics, responsibility and sustainability.