Hungarian Transport Museum closed a decade ago: sightseeing tour with Ikarus buses
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The Transport Museum was one of the oldest technical museums in Hungary. It was a state-run institution with a national collection, located in District XIV of Budapest, in the City Park (Városliget).
The Transport Museum
The museum building was open to visitors until 14 April 2015. Afterwards, it was demolished in seven months as part of the Liget project in February 2017, Helló Magyar reports. Since then, several ideas and steps have been taken to continue. However, after almost 10 years, the end of the tunnel still seems an unforeseeable long way off.
The Hungarian Technical and Transportation Museum’s Moving Museum, organised on weekends in December and January, was a great success and attracted a lot of interest in Budapest. The museum has a large collection of Ikarus buses, which are considered to be the best of their kind in Hungarian bus production.
Good old Ikarus buses
The vehicles, which are no longer young, usually need extensive refurbishment after their arrival if they are to be restored to working and travelling condition. In the absence of exhibition space, this allows the artefacts to be made available to the public as widely as possible and also to be tested in use.
Although the Ikarus fleet of the museum includes several variants, this time, people could meet the first mass-produced public transport legends of the Hungarian roads: Ikarus no. 311 and the “tailed Ikarus” (faros Ikarus).
You forgot the to mention it’s been almost 10 years the Applied Arts museum went into renovation – one the cities greatest buildings – to make matters worse they are adding a stark modern addition. It’s kind of like the revamp of entry hall Hungarian museum -designed by shopping mall designers- they spend so much time restoring on the smallest of objects but ignore the biggest