Ferenc Széchenyi puso los cimientos del Museo Nacional en 1802 cuando regaló a la nación su colección que consta de 15 mil cuerpos, de 12 mil impresos y mil manuscrito de valor. El gran arquitecto húngaro, Mihály Pollack planificó el palacio del museo de 108 metros de longitud y de 70 metros de ancho (se construyó entre 1837 y 1847). La fachada del edificio de neoclásico se apoya en o...
The furniture exhibition staged in the Museum presents the most important works in the furniture collection at the Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest. Over the many years of its growth, this collection has become unique in its own right. The most significant examples of its holdings from Hungary and abroad were acquired in the period up to 1914; in the years after 1945 it was primarily the 18th- and 19th-century sections that were augmented. It was...