Our international contacts develop continuously. We are a founding member of ICLM, the literary branch of ICOM, and among our contacts the most important ones are ALG, the German umbrella organisation of literary institutions and memorial houses, their French counterpart, the Fédération nationale des maisons d’écrivain et des patrimoines littéraires and the Italian Associazione Case della Memoria. In 2009 we jointly organized and hosted a meeting with the ALG to discuss the canonization processes of authors in Europe. Out of that meeting grew the idea of a preparatory meeting for the Grundtvig learning partnership project we are presently pursuing. This is an excellent example of the positive effects of international networking. We regularly attend ICLM conferences to learn as much as possible about the landscape of the profession in Europe as well as to work out specific plans for cooperations or partnerships. Currently we are planing a joint exhibition with the Italian Associazione Case della Memoria to take place in 2013. Between 2008 and 2010 we participated in the Athena project and, having aggregated data of another four Hungarian museums, we contributed about 100,000 digitised items to Europeana. We hope to continue as partners in the Athena Plus project. In the meantime we were invited to take part in the Europeana Inside project that started in April 2012. The project works on content development and making museum collection management compatible with Europeana through creating an Europeana connection kit. As the Petőfi Literary Museum administers part of the Márai legacy and Sándor Márai has recently been translated more widely and is becoming increasingly popular in Europe beyond, we continuously cooperate regarding joint projects, exhibitions, walks and publications with different partners from the Slovak National Museum to San Diego.
3. European heritage in the literary institution’s practice As can be seen from the above, our praxis can be characterised as open to European co-operation and networking. We ourselves have benefitted greatly as an institution through learning from others’ best practices. Each and every aspect of our work, from collection development and management to exhibitions, museum education, conferences, community education, festivals and events, is based on being upto-date and highly skilled at developing European partnerships of one kind or another. 116