The Budapest Hall of Art or Palace of Art, ( Hungarian − ''Műcsarnok Kunsthalle''), is a contemporary art museum and a historic building located in Budapest, Hungary.

Description

The museum building is on Heroes' Square, facing the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts. The art museum hosts temporary exhibits contemporary art. It operates on the program of German

Kunsthalle A kunsthalle is a facility that mounts temporary art exhibitions, similar to an art gallery. It is distinct from an art museum by not having a permanent collection. In the German-speaking regions of Europe, ''Kunsthallen'' are often operated by ...

s, as an institution run by artists that does not maintain its own collection. It is an Institution of the Hungarian Academy of Arts. Its government partner is the Ministry of Education and Culture. It has a bookshop, library, and the Műcsarnok Café that overlooks the square.

Building

The large Neoclassical style structure, designed by architects

Albert Schickedanz Albert Schickedanz (or Schikedanz) (October 14, 1846 – July 11, 1915) was an Austro-Hungarian architect and painter in the Eclectic style. Schickedanz was born in Biala, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, to an ethnic German family. He s ...

and Fülöp Herczog, was completed in 1896. It was originally built for millennium celebrations. Its

portico A portico is a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls. This idea was widely used in ancient Greece and has influenced many cult ...

is in the

Greek Revival style The Greek Revival was an architectural movement which began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe and the United States and Canada, but ...

. The three-bayed, semi-circular apse houses a roofed exhibition hall with

skylight A skylight (sometimes called a rooflight) is a light-permitting structure or window, usually made of transparent or translucent glass, that forms all or part of the roof space of a building for daylighting and ventilation purposes. History Open ...

s. The building was renovated in 1995.

References

External links

Institution of the Hungarian Academy of Arts – official Budapest Műcsarnok Kunsthalle (Palace of Art) website
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Budapest Tourism Office.hu: Palace of Art introduction
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