The Museum of Applied Arts (, ) is a museum in
Budapest
Budapest is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns of Hungary, most populous city of Hungary. It is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, tenth-largest city in the European Union by popul ...
,
Hungary
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. It is the third-oldest
applied arts
The applied arts are all the arts that apply design and decoration to everyday and essentially practical objects in order to make them aesthetically pleasing."Applied art" in ''The Oxford Dictionary of Art''. Online edition. Oxford Univ ...
museum in the world.
It was established by the Hungarian Parliament in 1872 to collect applied artworks, historical and contemporary, from Hungary and around the world.
Architecture
The museum was built between 1893 and 1896 and was designed by
Ödön Lechner
Ödön Lechner (born János Ödön Lechner; 27 August 1845 – 10 June 1914) was a Hungarian architect, one of the prime representatives of the Hungarian Szecesszió style, which was related to Art Nouveau in the rest of Europe, including the ...
and
Gyula Pártos
Gyula Pártos (born Julius Puntzmann, 17 August 1845 – 22 December 1916) was a Hungarian architect.[Pártos ...](_blank)
in the
Hungarian Secession style, a type of
Art Nouveau
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.
It has a
green
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roof and the interior is designed using
Hindu
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,
Mogul, and
Islamic
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designs.
It is considered a masterpiece of the Art Nouveau style in Hungary.
The Hungarian Royal School of Applied Arts moved from its scattered locations around the city into the new building with the Museum in 1896.
The following year a joint library shared by the Museum of and the school opened in the same building.
By the 21st century extensive renovations for the building became necessary, and a design competition was announced in 2012 for plans to reconstruct and reconfigure the building. These renovations are ongoing as of 2021.
Collection
The foundation of the museum's historical collections was formed by a transfer of artwork from the
Hungarian National Museum
The Hungarian National Museum (, ) was founded in 1802 and is the national museum for the history, art, and archaeology of Hungary, including areas not within Hungary's modern borders, such as Transylvania; it is separate to the collection of int ...
.
Further collections were built up in the Museum's early days from purchases made at
world's fairs
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and donations from companies.
The founding goal of the Museum was to create a collection that would bolster the development of Hungarian craft industries and raise the standards of public taste.
The museum houses a collection of metalwork, furniture, textiles, and glass. It also has a library. There are two other locations: the Hopp Ferenc Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts and
Nagytétény Palace
Nagytétény Palace or Száraz-Rudnyánszky Palace is today the furniture museum of the Museum of Applied Arts (Budapest), Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest established in 1949. It is located at 9-11 Kastélypark Street in the 22nd District of Bud ...
.
The museum is located near the southern end of the
Grand Boulevard in the neighborhood
Ferencváros
Ferencváros (, ) is the 9th district of Budapest (), Hungary.
Name
The southern suburb of Pest was named after King Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor, Francis I on 4 December 1792 when he was crowned king of Hungary.
History
The developmen ...
and it can be accessed by
metro line 3.
Gallery
See also
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List of design museums
References
External links
The museum's web page(In Hungarian, some pages available in English)
(in English)
Virtual tour of the Museum of Applied Artsprovided by
Google Arts & Culture
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It utilizes high-re ...
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Art museums and galleries in Budapest
Decorative arts museums
Art Nouveau architecture in Budapest
Applied Arts
The applied arts are all the arts that apply design and decoration to everyday and essentially practical objects in order to make them aesthetically pleasing."Applied art" in ''The Oxford Dictionary of Art''. Online edition. Oxford Univ ...
Museums established in 1896
Visionary environments
Design museums
Ödön Lechner buildings
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