Imre Kiss, the retired director of MKVM, has passed away

By: Ipacs Tamás Date: 2023. 06. 01. 08:36

After a long illness, Imre Kiss, the director emeritus of the Hungarian Trade and Hospitality Museum, passed away at the age of sixty-eight, the management of the museum announced. – His death is an irreplaceable loss for his beloved museum and the entire profession.

Imre Kiss was born in Budapest in 1956, graduated in 1984 from the archeology and philology department of the ELTE BTK.
For twenty years, until 2004, he worked in business as a foreign trader (Chemo-Caola and IDEX-FIN-WEST), marketer (DGW Media) and HR manager (Bull, GE Tungsram, PWC, IBM).

After a detour into business life, he was appointed the director of the MKVM in 2004, to head a museum that was about to move. As the first manager of the public collection profession, he successfully set the national museum on a new course, while twice, in 2005 and 2011, he directed the relocation of the museum and the transformation of buildings originally not intended for museum purposes. In 2012, he received the Podmaniczky Award for all of this.