City Park is changing – here are the latest plans – PHOTOS

Due to the government’s decision, the new Transport Museum will be built outside the City Park. The historic building of the museum will be renovated, after which it will host an interactive exhibition about the Hungarian innovations, reports turizmusonline.hu.

Városliget Ltd. has announced that the first steps of the City Park’s long-awaited landscape architectural renovation will begin in the autumn within the scope of the Liget Budapest Project.

The Garden of the Blind will be totally renovated and made accessible for the disabled on more than 10 thousand square kilometres, while the Park will be expanded by more than a thousand square kilometres new green area by the destruction of the old Veterinary Clinic of Hermina street. The Hungarian Museum of Science, Technology and Transport will get an exhibition hall outside the City Park, thus the museum being renovated in the Park will not need underground expansion.

Garden of the Blind

According to the government’s latest decision, the first stage of the renovation of the City Park will begin already this year. One of its main elements is the full-scale rehabilitation of the first Hungarian garden planned especially for the blind and the partially sighted. The existent stand will also be renovated on the territory of more than a hectare, and the garden will be enriched by new and precious species. Instead of the ruins of the log cabin that stood there, a new building will be awaiting the visitors fully accessible for the disabled.

Hermina Garden

The desolate buildings of the old Veterinary Clinic of Hermina street will be torn down this year and the surrounding pavement will also be broken, thus giving back more than a thousand square kilometres green area to the Park. The Park will be totally restored in that area, which will result in the creation of the relaxing and quiet Hermina Garden with benches, drinking-fountains, trees and shrubs.

At the same time as the renovation of the Museum of Fine Arts, the green area surrounding it will also fully revive: after the professional care of the existent old trees, a little avenue will be created from the direction of Dózsa György street, while the annual flower-bed will also be renewed.

The sports fields next to the former Petőfi Hall will be replaced in the neighbourhood of the Garden of the Blind. The building of these fields will begin already this year. At the nearby schools’ request an athletic running track will be created which will be 200 metres long and contain four lanes. Two multifunctional sports fields will be placed in the area bordered by this running track.

Hungarian Museum of Science, Technology and Transport

The government has also made a decision concerning the further development of the Hungarian Museum of Science, Technology and Transport (MMKM). About 4500 square kilometres exhibiting area was availible in the demolished building of the Transport Museum. The plans made in the last two years about the reconstruction of the museum’s historic building have doubled this area, it became 9000 square kilometres together with the underground expansion.

The expanded exhibiting area would have been suitable for a more comprehensive exhibition showing much more means of transport, but it would not be able to show each and every piece of the Transport Museum’s collection (railway vehicles, buses, trams, etc.).