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The Museum of Ethnography will reopen at its new home, a “state of the art” new building near City Park, with large-scale exhibitions in the spring next year when it will celebrate its 150th anniversary, ministerial commissioner László Baán said on Wednesday.
The construction of the new 7,000sqm building which will be three times the size of the museum’s old facility at Kossuth Square near Parliament is nearing completion, he told reporters at a walk-through.
The architect firm, Hungary’s Napur Architect, was selected by an international jury from among plans submitted to a competition by eminent designers such as Zaha Hadid and the Bjarke Ingels Group, Baán said.
“As the owner of one of Hungary’s most significant public collections, the Ethnography Museum celebrating the 150th anniversary of its foundation has been given a home designed and built for the first time according to its needs,”
he said.
