Scope of activities

Institute for Musicology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Scope of activities

to maintain and enlarge the primary collections hosted by the institute: the Hungarian Folk Music and Folk Dance Archives, the Bartók Archives, and the Museum of Music History, all of which are internationally of outstanding importance, and unique to Hungary in their field,
to conduct research in all areas of Hungarian music history, and in various special fields of general music history,
to carry out research in the domain of ethnomusicology and ethnochoreology (Hungarian and European folk music and folk dance),
to conduct basic and applied research in the fields of systematic musicology,
to participate in graduate and postgraduate education in musicology in cooperation with the Ferenc Liszt Music Academy).