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Zsombor Jékely: The Museum of Applied Arts in 2013-15
making the collections available online. During this period, the Partage Plus project was successfully concluded. Funded by the European Commission, the project was realised with the cooperation of 25 partner institutions from all over Europe. Over the course of the project, partner institutions have digitized and uploaded into the Euro- peana portal over 75.000 records: including museum-quality objects, details of Art Nouveau architecture, works on paper and other archival material. The focus of the digitization effort was on architecture and the decorative arts. The Museum of Applied Arts provided 7150 records for the database, which can be accessed from the common European portal, Europeana.eu, as well as from the collection database of the Museum. In addition to providing digital images and descriptive data on the objects, over 200 objects were also scanned in 3D. Comprehensive information on the project is available on the project website, which is maintained by the Museum of Applied Arts: partage-plus.eu. Even after this project finished, the continued addition of our material to Europeana is secured thanks to the AthenaPlus project. Since 2013, a selection of highlight objects from the Museum of Applied Arts is also available in the system of the Google Art Project, which also provides a virtual walkthrough of the permanent exhibition of the Museum. 3D virtual versions of our 2013 Art Nouveau exhibitions were also created, and are available via the museum website (www.imm.hu). The Museum also joined a number of specialized online databases, among others the Gothic Ivories Project (Courtauld Institute of Art, London) and the database of painted church furniture in Hungarian public collections. Exhibitions, displays and events Despite the difficulties, the Museum of Applied Arts continued to put on a programme of rich and varied exhibitions for the public in 2013-15. Highlights included an Art Nouveau exhibition, which was shown in Rome as well as in Budapest, a new permanent exhibition of Islamic art, and a number of contemporary exhibitions. At Nagytétény, a long-term exhibition was opened, showcasing the exceptional clock collection of Ferenc Radvánszky. Of our temporary exhibitions, the one of modern commercial posters, held in 2014, was the most successful, while at the end of 2014, we opened a large exhibition dedicated to the architect of our palace, Ödön Lechner. Our series of contemporary exhibitions organized in cooperation with various partners of the museum continued with a large show of the ceramics collection of the International Ceramics Studio in Kecskemét (2013), a monumental overview of postwar Italian design (an exhibition of the Triennale Design Museum in Milan), and smaller exhibitions of Polish design and contemporary bookbindings from Estonia. 2015 was characterized by international cooperation: the Museum displayed a historic exhibition of Chinese treasures and two exhibitions of contemporary Spanish design, while mounting an exhibition of Ottoman Turkish carpets in Istanbul. Below you can read about these in more detail. Exhibitions Islamic Art 9 July 2013 - long term The exhibition features a selection of artefacts from Asian and Northern-African Is144
