The Herman Ottó Plaque is an award that was created by the legal predecessor of the Herman Ottó Museum, the Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County Museum Directorate in 1990. The award is given by the director of the museum during a major event, holiday or special occasion, based on the proposal of the Management Board.
The Herman Ottó Plaque is a lifetime achievement award: it is given to colleagues, museum organizational units or external supporters, professional partners and institutions who showcased an outstanding display of representation and enrichment of the professional, social and scientific values deemed important by the museum for several decades.
The award is a bronze plaque with a diameter of 9.5 millimetres and a thickness of 6 millimetres. It was designed and made by sculptor Antal Borsi. The plaque features the portrait of Ottó Herman on the front and the Papszer museum building on the back.
Herman Ottó Plaque Awardees:
1990 – Dr. Pál Patay
1991 – Gemer-Malohont Museum Rimavská Sobota (Slovakia)
1992 – Rákóczi Museum, Sárospatak
1993 – Vologda Museum (Russia)
2000 – István Antos (Motorway Engineering), Dr. Ferenc Ódor
2001 – Dr. Imre Dankó
2002 – Miklós Papp, Dr. Zoltán Ujváry, Mining Museum in Rožňava (Slovakia), Mihály Détschy, Eastern Slovakia Museum Košice (Slovakia)
2003 – Dr. Sándor Bodó
2004 – Dr. Sándor Frisnyák, Museum of Sosnowiec (Poland), József Á. Tóth
2005 – Klára Lajtai Jánosné Fejes, Miklós Lóránt, János Hrabovszki, Deputy Director Sándor Mészáros (ÉMÁSZ)
2006 – Dr. Mónika Bodnár, Gömör Museum, Dr. László Oleksza, Dr. Miklós Cseri and associates
2008 – László É. Kovács
2009 – Zoltán Dömötör
2010 – Mihály Molnár
2011 – Dr. István Lenkey
2014 – Herman Ottó Museum, Department of History
2015 – Eszter Barázda
2019 – Dr. Éva Gyulai, Dr. Sándor Szakáll
2021 – Herman Ottó Museum, Department of Fine Arts
2022 – Gábor Mikita