Prékopa Ágnes (szerk.): Ars Decorativa 30. (Budapest, 2016)

Ildikó PANDUR: A Wrought-Iron Exhibition Hall Gateway from 1883: A Contribution to the Architectural History of the Old Exhibition Hall and the Old Music Academy in Budapest

joint Austro-Hungarian expedition to East Asia in 1868.5 These were the components that formed the basis of the collection in the newly formed Museum of Applied Arts. It would take a further quarter-century, however, before the institution acquired a home of its own, in 1896.

Ferenc Pulszky, director general of the Hungarian National Museum, gallantly came to the assistance of the new institution not only through the loan of art treasures, but also by offering the use of his own museum’s atrium, consisting of two large galleries, for an exhibition of the foreign pieces he had so generously transferred to the Museum of Applied Arts.6 The National Museum also hosted several other large-scale, space-con7. The Old Exhibition Hall, Adolf Lang, 1875-1877

Vasárnapi Újság, (XXVII) 1877

8. An exhibition hall of the Museum of Applied Arts at the Old Exhibition Hall, 1885 (detail from the Indian exhibition)

Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest, Archives, FLT 4925

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