The
Museum of Applied Arts
The
Museum of Applied Arts is a museum in Budapest, Hungary. The Art
Nouveau building was built between 1893 and 1896 to the plans of Ödön
Lechner and Gyula Pártos.
It is one of the most characteristic and
most representative forms of Lechner's architectural style, featuring
Hungarian folk ceramics, including Zsolnay pottery and majolica, also
showing Islamic and Hindu motifs(another example of this style is the
Geological Institute not far from City Park).
The
Museum of Applied Arts has a rich collection of European decorative
arts, arranged in the following collections: Collection of Furniture,
Collection of Metalwork, Collection of Textiles, Collection of
Ceramics and Glass.
In addition, the museum has a public library
collection. The Museum of Applied Arts has two branches: The Ferenc
Hopp Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts and the Nagytétény Castle
Museum.
The
permanent exhibition, Collectors and Treasures, presents pieces from
the museum's collection. Works of art illustrate the founding and
history of the museum, as the exhibition deals with the most
important stages in the history of the museum, beginning from 1872.
Art
and Design for All – The Victoria and Albert Museum
The
Victoria and Albert Museum in London is the world’s leading museum
of art and design and has been a near-inexhaustible source of
inspiration, innovation and knowledge since its foundation in the
mid-19th century. From day one, the museum was celebrated as an
exemplary educational institution that reached an unusually wide
audience.
Not only did its collections help improve the aesthetic
quality of British manufactures and industrial products, they also
provided models to be emulated and acted as a school of public taste,
educating the museum audience in matters of discernment and taste.
The
exhibition Art and Design for All reconstructs the focus of the
original core collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum and sheds
light on its innovative approach and its function as a role model for
other institutions.
The exhibition also presents the results of
recent research into the continental roots of the V&A, which can
be traced back to the ideas of Queen Victoria’s German husband,
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, a graduate of the University
of Bonn, and the museum landscape of 19th-century Germany.
Art
and Design for All showcases some 350 spectacular items from the rich
holdings of the V&A, which is lending on this scale for the first
time in its history. The exhibits are complemented by other exquisite
pieces from other British collections, the Berlin Kunstgewerbemuseum
and the Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest. The exhibition will be
shown in Budapest from 14 June to 16 September 2012.
