Mikes Kelemen Program
The Mikes Kelemen Program is dedicated to collecting the library and archival heritage of the Hungarian diaspora. Its establishment was announced by the State Secretariat for Hungarian Communities Abroad at the III. Meeting of the Hungarian Diaspora Council held on November 6, 2013. The program is operated in cooperation with the National Széchényi Library and focuses on saving and preserving the diaspora’s material heritage collecting its elements in a systematic manner, transferring them to Hungary. In 2015 the National Archives of Hungary also joined the initiative. In the Mikes Kelemen Program only those books and documents are transferred to the kin-state which are no longer needed and used in the diaspora. Until 2018 almost 300 cubic meters of documents were sent to Hungary by within the framework of Mikes Kelemen Program. On September 14, 2018 an exhibition was opened with the aim to present the more valuable pieces in the Hungarian National Archives entitled Óhazából újhazába – emberi és családi sorsok az emigrációban (ha van angol összefoglaló hivatkozzunk rá) (From Old Country to New Country – Individual and Family Destinies in Emigration).