Prékopa Ágnes (szerk.): Ars Decorativa 29. (Budapest, 2013)

Imre TAKÁCS: The Upgrade Programme for the Budapest Museum of Applied Arts

2. Jenő Radisics (1856-1917), second director of the Museum of Applied Arts, photo: Sándor Strelisky, Archives of the Museum of Applied Arts

while living in exile in London in the early 1850s. His son Károly Pulszky was in charge of the first major state purchases and subsequently, for its first ten years, the museum itself (Fig. 1). The European and Asian art works purchased in Vienna in 1873 went on display in the National Museum in 1874. The collection swelled through donations and the relocation of earlier acquisitions such as the ceramics presented to Hungary by the British jury of the 1862 London International Exhibition. They were exhibited in an arrangement following the principles of Gottfried Semper, by material and technique.7

3. Museum of Applied Arts building, c. 1900, photo: György Klösz,

Archives of the Museum of Applied Arts

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