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

budapesti Iparművészeti Múzeum gyűjteményeinek kialakulása, önálló épületének születése (1872-1897).’ [The development of the collections of the Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest, and the birth of its own building (1872-1897).], pp. 261-284. In:

Tanulmányok Budapest múltjából XXVIII. [Studies of Budapest’s past XXVIII.] (1999). Urbanizáció a dualizmus korában. Konferencia Budapest egyesítésének 125. évfordulója tiszteletére a Budapesti Történeti Múzeumban, 1998. november [Urbanisation during the period of dualism. Conference marking the 125th anniversary of the unification of Budapest, held at the Budapest History Museum, November 1998] (hereafter: Ács 1999) p. 262. - For more about the items transferred on longterm loan from the departments of antiquities and ethnography, and the purchases made at the World Fair in Vienna in 1873, see Horváth, Hilda.- ‘Az Iparművészeti Múzeum gyűjteményeinek története. ’ [A history of the collections in the Museum of Applied Arts.] (For the exhibition titled Collectors and Treasures.) Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest, 2006, pp. 21-30.

6 Végh 1931, p. 425.

7 Radisics, Jenő: Országos Magyar Iparművészeti Múzeum. Képes kalauz a gyűjteményekben. [The National Hungarian Museum of Applied Arts. Illustrated guide to the collections.] Budapest, 1885 (hereafter: Radisics 1885), IX. - Ács 1996, p. 8.

8 ‘A mult vasárnap történetéből. I. Az iparmúzeum.’ [On the events of last Sunday. I. The Museum of Applied Arts.] In: Vasárnapi Újság XXIV, (1874), pp. 265-267.

9 Pulszky, Károly: Kalauz a Magyar Iparművészeti Múzeum gyűjteményeihez. [Guide to the collections of the Hungarian Museum of Applied Arts.] Pest, 1874, p. 4: “In mounting the exhibition that took place temporarily in the atrium of the National Museum it was not possible to pursue a strictly scientific means of classification.”

10 Kalauz az Iparművészeti Museum gyűjteményeihez. [Guide to the collections of the Museum of Applied Arts.] Edited by: Schikedanz, Albert - Pulszky,

Károly, Budapest, 1877. (Apart from this bibliographical mention of his name, the conventional spelling of Albert Schickedanz is used in the rest of this text.]

11 Modern address: 1062 Budapest, Andrássy út 69. Another building called “Műcsarnok” (Exhibition Hall, or Kunsthalle) was built on Heroes’ Square in Budapest in 1896, since which time the old building is referred to as “Régi Műcsarnok”, Old Exhibition Hall.

12 Radisics, Jenő: ‘Az Országos Magyar Iparművészeti Múzeum és magyar gyűjteményei.’ [The National Hungarian Museum of Applied Arts and its Hungarian collections.] In: Magyar Iparművészet XVIII (1915), pp. 117-124. (hereafter: Radisics 1915), p. 117.

13 Herman, Ottó: ‘A műcsarnok.’ [The Exhibition Hall.] In: Vasárnapi Újság XXVII, (1877),

pp. 697-698; Herman, Ottó: ‘Az iparmúzeum.’ [The Museum of Applied Arts.] In: Vasárnapi Újság XXVII, (1877), pp. 698-699. (hereafter: Herman 1877). Cited in: Ács 1996, p. 7; Ács 1999, p. 262. In the different publications, a different number of rooms is given, (e.g. Herman 1877, p. 699: two rooms in the basement, the wall of the corridor leading up to the mezzanine, and four rooms in the mezzanine. “This was our brief outline of the contents in the seven rooms.”)

Ferenc Vadas has suggested an explanation for this inconsistency, namely, that the corner rooms and the smaller rooms connected to them were counted together. See: Vadas, Ferenc: Budapest VI. Andrássy út 69. Tudományos dokumentáció. [Scientific documentation about 69 Andrássy Avenue in Budapest’s 6th district.] Budapest, 1998. Manuscript, (hereafter: Vadas 1998), p. 58, note 107. Further research is needed to determine the exact location and content of the exhibition spaces of the Museum of Applied Arts in the different premises, and this article does not address this issue. I will expand on this subject in my next study, currently in preparation, which traces the migration of the museum collection from the

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