Dr. Zelnik, a former high-ranking Hungarian diplomat, has been collecting objects of art for more than 30 years. Well travelled all over the world and speaking perfectly more than half a dozen of languages including Vietnamese, Lao, Khmer and Thai made him a perfect and passionate collector of Chinese porcelain, Angkorian sculptures, and old Southeast Asian gold, silver and bronze jewelry, just to mention a few types of art objects from his diverse collection.