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ing plans) inform us about every detail of the building. The daily reports of the construction in the first year still remain. In conjunction with the written material, we can also follow up the construction from almost the very second it started with the help of documentary photographs, taken by Antal Weinwurm, a well-known photographer at the turn of the century. The figures of Lechner and Pártos occasionally appear beside the workers on the 50 by 60 centimeter glass photographic plates. Based on the continuously produced architectural detail drawings, the supporting structure of the huge building, as well as the roof, were finished by the end of 1894, In 1895, the question of the cover of the outside facades arose. The pirogranite cover and decorative elements were produced in the Zsolnay factory in Pécs. In the same year, they announced a tender for all the specialized jobs indoors, as well as the interior decoration. The dedication of the building took place as the final event of the milleneum celebration. On October 25, 1896, Francis Joseph 1, King of Hungary placed the final stone of the building during a grand celebration, and viewed an exhibition made up from various Hungarian relics specially designed for this occasion. Not all the interior jobs had been finished by then: the electrical wiring and the painted decoration, as well as the furnishing, were still incomplete, and the building could only be opened for the general public in November of the following year. The entire art collection of the museum consisted of 9000 works of art, but due to insufficient financial means, only 4270 of those could be displayed at the opening. 284