Le Musée est l’oeuvre de Mihály Pollack(1837-1847), principal architecte de l’époque néo-classique.Il a été achevé en 1848. L’idée de fonder un musée national provient du comte Ferenc Széchényi: en 1802, il a offert sa collection entière á la nation, en montrant un bel exemple á ses contemporains.L’escalier d’honneur du ...
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...