Weiner Mihályné szerk.: Az Iparművészeti Múzeum Évkönyvei 12. (Budapest, 1970)

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Fig. 2. Drawers in the Bronze Gallery has it been possible to display the growing collection of paintings for the public and the sculpture shared a small gallery with the Greek and Roman sculpture in the National Museum. Beside sculpture and painting this museum had also a less important collection of Chinese ceramics and other applied art. These various objects together with the Japanese art were transferred to the building that had originally been built in 1700 as a stable for the King Charles XII's bodyguard but which had served as a warehouse throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. In July, 1959 the Government decided that a new organization should be formed to be known as the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities (Östasiatiska Museet), to handle the two large state collections discussed above. These were to be brought together in the new Museum. The