The Hungarian Academy of Rome is located in Palazzo Falconieri, a building built in the seventeenth century by one of the greatest masters of Baroque art, Francesco Borromini. Today the Hungarian Academy continually hosts fellows who are artists, students and scholars. In recent years, a lot of efforts have been made to transform it into a modern institution, up to its cultural and scientific tasks. The systematic study of the archives and libraries existing in Rome and the Vatican was resumed. The Art Gallery of the Institute, in addition to hosting annual exhibitions of fellows from the Academy and other Hungarian artists, often opens its premises to the works of Italian painters and sculptors. In the great Hall of the Palace, conferences and round tables, concerts and film screenings are systematically held. Thus, the opportunities for direct contact between the most important intellectuals, scholars and artists of the two countries become numerous, which makes the Academy of Hungary a real meeting point between the two cultures.