Museum of Applied Arts closed for years due to restoration in Hungary

The Museum of Applied Arts will get renewed, reports pestbuda.hu. Its building is considered one of the most beautiful examples of the Hungarian Art Nouveau. Now it needs to undergo a total reconstruction and expansion. After the one-year-long moving out, the construction will last three years. After that, the public can attend the museum after waiting another year from moving back.

The Museum of Applied Arts (IMM) closes on the 3rd of September due to a total reconstruction, but before that, it says goodbye to its visitors with a number of programs in the next few weeks. Before closing, guided tours, museum yoga and interactive programs await the guests, but those ones, who – besides the exhibitions – are interested in the building’s secret corners and storerooms, can buy the golden ticket – the institution’s director-general stated at the press conference of IMM on Thursday.

Zoltán Cselovszki added that the lookout-tower taken down from the building designed by Ödön Lechner will be reconstructed. However, its original onion dome weighing 13 tons will be taken to Sziget Festival, where visitors will be able to touch it before the Museum’s tent. The museum will open at midnight on 3rd September to say goodbye with a series of programs before the reconstruction, thus visitors can watch the sunrise from the terrace on the rooftop – he added.

Collection on the Internet

The director-general emphasized that the Museum of Applied Arts has the most significant collection of applied arts in the world, and this collection will be available on the Internet in a few years. Sixty per cent of the main collection will be digitalized by the end of the year and it will be available on http://gyujtemeny.imm.hu.

The villa of György Ráth operated by IMM will be restored to its original conditions, but the building on Városligeti fasor will have a seasonal stand from April 2018. The exhibiton of furniture history in Nagytétény Castle will also be renovated – Zoltán Cselovszki stated.