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be rehabilitated within the millennium period. The present aim is only to create an orderly state. 5. The neorenaissance building of the "Várbazár" was built by 1883. A programme and conference centre is planned to be organised in it, together with the relevant facilities (hotel, restaurant, etc.). © Museum Investments The rehabilitation programme for the museums of countrywide authority set the aim of continuing and finishing the renovation work that had already been started. Regarding the Hungarian National Museum it was the deteriorated state of the almost 150-year-old building, having to do away with the one-time unprofessional interventions, having to modernise the infrastructural network, the lack of space, and having to meet up-to-date museological requirements which made it necessary to make arrangements for rehabilitation work covering the whole of the building. In the first phase, the lapidary was created under the southern courtyard. The northern entrance gate, the security centre, the Széchenyi hall, the collection of arms, the photo archives, the library and its storage spaces, the reading room and a row of exhibition rooms were finished. Most part of the second storey was renovated as exhibition space for the historic collection. The restoration of the Palace Museum in Nagytétény, started in 1997 was finished by June 1999. The baroque character of the building from the end of the 18th century was preserved. The permanent exhibition to be set up there with the title "The Art of Furniture in Europe in the 15th—19

th Centuries" exhibits the finest and most important relevant items of the collection of the Museum of Applied Art. The restoration was supervised by the Ministry of the National Cultural Heritage and its legal predecessor and was financed by the state budget, costing 361 million HUF. The detailed renovation programme for the whole building complex of the Museum of Fine Arts was approved of by the government in 1984, with the following scheduled phases: l

sl phase (1987-1992): simultaneously with the complete renovation of the vestibule, the Marble Hall and the adjacent exhibition spaces new spaces would be created in the subground floor for expanding exhibitional and infrastructural spaces. (Costs: 1,300 million HUE) 2

nd phase (1998-2001): renovation of the Baroque and the Doric halls and the adjacent exhibition spaces. (Costs: 3,072 million HUF.) The Baroque Hall had been completed by the beginning of 2000. 3

rd phase: the finishing phase of the renovation. Besides that of the Romanesque Hall and the adjacent exhibition space the renovation of the facade and ordering the garden. (Scheduled costs: 2,500 million HUF.) The idea of renovating the "Ludovika" Academy (one-time military academy) presently housing the Museum of Natural Science and using the adjacent Orczy Garden for museum purposes was raised in 1991. Within the first phase of the renovation the Collection of Minerals was moved to its final place, in 1995. In the second phase, between 1997-1999, the loft of the main building was built in, housing the Anthropological Collection and the Zoological Department. Presently, as the third phase of the work, the space under the courtyard is being built in, together with constructing a corridor connecting the Riding Hall with the main building. These works are scheduled to be finished in 2002. (D Target Programme for the Promotion of Hungarian Architectural Heritage Beyond the Frontier Before 1989 we cannot talk about real professional co-operation between the central organisations of monument preservation of Hungary and the neighbouring countries. After the year of the political changes, there was a meeting organised in Hungary each year for conservation experts of the Carpathian Basin for building up relationships, exchange of experience professional training. It was also during this period that an agreement of co-operation was signed by the Slovakian and LIungarian monument preservation authorities. From the middle of the 1990s concrete tasks were also started to be undertaken - a plan of reinforcing the endangered part of the Munkács fortress (The Ukraine) was designed and the work was also carried out. On the Hungarian side a qualitative change was brought about by the 1998 change of (Hungarian) government. Hungary signed interstate cultural agreements with Croatia, Romania and Slovakia, fixing the common tasks of monument preservation on both sides. The monument preservation authorities of Slovakia and Hungary signed a contract of co-operation. In the case of Sub-Carpathia assistance is one-sided and is presently confined to aiding the ecclesiastic buildings of historic value in the settlements damaged by the floods.