Fővárosi Szabó Ervin Könyvtár (literally ''Metropolitan Ervin Szabó Library'') is the largest library network in
Budapest
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Hungary
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The Metropolitan Ervin Szabó Library's main branch is housed in the 19th-century
neo-baroque Wenckheim Palace.
The municipal library needed more space as its collection grew, so it expanded to a network of additional buildings while restoring the palace as a national monument. The library is now 13,000 m² and houses Budapest's largest public collection of books with a capacity for 1,100,000 volumes.
In 2003, the International Real Estate Federation awarded the
Prix d’Excellence to its central building.
Prix d' Excellence Previous Winners
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See also
*Ervin Szabó
Ervin Szabó (born as Samuel Armin Schlesinger; 23 August 1877 – 29 September 1918) was a Hungary, Hungarian social scientist, librarian and anarcho-syndicalist revolutionary.
Life
Born Samuel Armin Schlesinger, Szabó's parents were assimilat ...
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References
External links
Metropolitan Ervin Szabó Library
Libraries in Hungary
Culture in Budapest
Baroque Revival architecture
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