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TABLE OF CONTENTSLiget Budapest International Design Competition Competition Programme ________________2

1 __________Introduction ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________6

1.1 _________Preface - Ban Lszl, Governmental Commissioner of Liget Budapest ______________7

1.2 ________Summary ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________8

1.2.1 ______Objectives______________________________________________________________________________________________________________91.2.2 _____Who are we looking for? ________________________________________________________________________________________ 9

2 __________The Project: Liget Budapest _________________________________________________________________________________10

2.1 ________Summary of the Project ________________________________________________________________________________________ 12

2.2 _______National Museum Restoration and Storage Centre (OMRRK) ____________________________13

2.3 _______The history of the Project _____________________________________________________________________________________13

2.3.1 _____Preparatory stage _________________________________________________________________________________________________ 13

2.3.2 ____Governmental Decisions ______________________________________________________________________________________15

2.3.3 ____Parliamentary Decision _________________________________________________________________________________________ 16

2.3.4 ____Ideas Competition, 2013 _______________________________________________________________________________________162.3.5 ____International Design Competition, 2014 _______________________________________________________________ 18

2.4 _______The Location: City Part, Budapest _______________________________________________________________________20

2.4.1 _____History _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________20

2.4.2 ____The City Park in the urban texture of Budapest ___________________________________________________25

2.4.3 ____Institutional system of the City Park ____________________________________________________________________28

2.4.4 ____Strategic issues ____________________________________________________________________________________________________30

2.5 _______Key development points of Liget Budapest project ___________________________________________47

2.5.1 _____Cultural policy______________________________________________________________________________________________________47

2.5.2 ____Museological requirements _________________________________________________________________________________47

2.5.3 ____Cultural tourism ___________________________________________________________________________________________________48

2.5.4 ____Museum organizational and economic considerations _______________________________________48

2.5.5 ____Urban rehabilitation _____________________________________________________________________________________________ 49

2.5.6 ____Environment, energy, sustainability _____________________________________________________________________49

2.6 _______Management, participants __________________________________________________________________________________49

2.7 _______The City: Budapest______________________________________________________________________________________________50

2.7.1 ______Brief historical summary ______________________________________________________________________________________50

2.7.2 _____New cultural tourism destination of Europe from 2018: Liget Budapest _____________51


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2.7.3 _____The present museum system of Budapest ___________________________________________________________52

3 __________Visions of the Institutions ____________________________________________________________________________________53

3.1 The New National Gallery and Ludwig Museum Museum of Contemporary Art ____54

3.1.1 ______New National Gallery___________________________________________________________________________________________54

3.1.2 _____Ludwig Museum __________________________________________________________________________________________________55

3.2 _______Museum of Ethnography _____________________________________________________________________________________ 56

3.3 _______Hungarian Museum of Architecture and FotoMuzeum Budapest _______________________57

3.3.1 _____Hungarian Museum of Architecture _____________________________________________________________________573.3.2 ____FotoMuzeum Budapest _______________________________________________________________________________________58

3.4 _______House of Hungarian Music __________________________________________________________________________________59

4 _________Design criteria_______________________________________________________________________________________________________61

4.1 ________Sustainability _________________________________________________________________________________________________________62

4.1.1 ______Energy Performance_____________________________________________________________________________________________62

4.1.2 _____Health and Comfort _____________________________________________________________________________________________63

4.1.3 _____Water Management_____________________________________________________________________________________________64

4.1.4 _____Ecology ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________64

4.1.5 _____Material use _________________________________________________________________________________________________________654.1.6 _____Green building certification ________________________________________________________________________________65

4.2 _______Building Information Modelling ___________________________________________________________________________65

4.3 _______Building regulations _____________________________________________________________________________________________66

4.3.1 _____Regulations of height ___________________________________________________________________________________________66

4.3.2 ____Other Regulations _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 66

5 __________System of Rules _____________________________________________________________________________________________________67

5.1 ________General Information ____________________________________________________________________________________________68

5.1.1 ______Promoter ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________68

5.1.2 _____Competition manager _________________________________________________________________________________________68

5.1.3 _____Contact ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________68

5.1.4 _____Form and type of the design competition ___________________________________________________________ 68

5.1.5 _____Deadlines _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________69

5.1.6 _____Conditions of participation __________________________________________________________________________________ 69

5.1.7 _____Language _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________70

5.1.8 _____Exclusion ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________70

5.1.9 _____Access to the documentation _______________________________________________________________________________ 71

5.2 _______The Jury ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________72


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5.2.1 _____Members _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________72

5.2.2 ____Work of the Jury ___________________________________________________________________________________________________73

5.3 _______Regulations ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________73

5.4 _______Questions and answers_________________________________________________________________________________________74

5.5 _______Formal requirements ____________________________________________________________________________________________74

5.5.1 _____Competition mail __________________________________________________________________________________________________74

5.5.2 ____Electronic data ______________________________________________________________________________________________________74

5.5.3 ____Printed materials___________________________________________________________________________________________________75

5.5.4 ____Anonymity _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________76

5.6 _______Content requirements __________________________________________________________________________________________76

5.6.1 _____First stage _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________77

5.6.2 ____Second stage ________________________________________________________________________________________________________79

5.7 _______Submission process _____________________________________________________________________________________________80

5.8 _______Assessment criteria ______________________________________________________________________________________________81

5.8.1 _____Dialogue with the environment ___________________________________________________________________________82

5.8.2 ____Architecture and mass formation ________________________________________________________________________82

5.8.3 ____Technology and function _____________________________________________________________________________________82

5.8.4 ____Sustainability ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 83

5.8.5 ____Costs ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 83

5.9 _______Prizes ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________84

5.10 _____Post-competition processes ________________________________________________________________________________ 85

5.10.1 ____Announcement of results ____________________________________________________________________________________ 85

5.10.2 ___Entries not awarded_____________________________________________________________________________________________ 85

5.10.3 ___Competition by negotiation ________________________________________________________________________________86

5.11 _______Annexes _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________86

5.11.1 _____Annexes of Content requirements ______________________________________________________________________86

5.11.2 ____Technical information materials ___________________________________________________________________________875.12 ______References ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________87


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1.1 PREFACE BAN LSZL, GOVERNMENTALCOMMISSIONER OF LIGET BUDAPEST

The Government o Hungary has committed itsel to erecting new buildings or six important cultur-al institutions in Budapest as part o the Liget Budapest project. Fine art, architecture, ethnography,music and photography: these are the five areas the leading institutions o which will be accorded aplace in the City Park, one o the oldest parks o Budapest, together with a number o other museumsand public institutions that have been working here or more than a hundred years. The project willbe implemented in parallel with the complete rehabilitation o the park.The culture that has given the world the musical genius o Ferenc Liszt, Bla Bartk, Zoltan Kodlyand Gyrgy Ligeti, the artistic individuality o Lszl Moholy-Nagy, Marcell Breuer, Victor Vasare-ly and Simon Hanta, the unique visual world o Andr Kertsz and Robert Capa will be given a new

centre. The Museum Quarter established within the ramework o the Liget Budapest project is notsimply a block o five new buildings: together with the already existing institutions it will be the flag-ship o Hungarian culture that not only Hungarians but a whole unified Europe will be proud o.We are convinced that the announcement o an international competition is the only possible way tofind a suitable design concept or the unique collections and knowledge owned by these institutions.Our aim is to find designs or every new building that satisy to the maximum extent the expectationso the given institution, offer the best possible services or the works o art, or the experts and visitors,and last but not least, or the architectural solutions, which represent a work o art in themselves. We arelooking or designers who, as part o the Liget Budapest project, will also strive to achieve the very best.Within the ramework o this process we hereby announce our international architectural designcompetitions simultaneously under the supervision o the same jury. We will do our utmost to makesure that these competitions provide the same conditions and chances or all the architects work-ing in any part o the world. We strongly believe that at the end o the second stage we will be able toselect the best designs and the best designers in a clear and transparent competition.Budapest, a city with two thousand years o history and one o the most multi-aceted metropolises oEurope or more than a hundred years, is about to embark upon a momentous and exhilarating jour-ney with the Liget Budapest project. We welcome every architect who would like to share this chal-lenge with us!


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1.2 SUMMARYThe Museum o Fine Arts Budapest and the Vrosliget Zrt. 100 % owned by the Hun-garian State hereby announce an open, international, two-stage design competition orthe design o museum buildings within the ramework o the Liget Budapest Project onthe territory o the City Park Budapest.

The construction o the new buildings, the complete renewal o the green area o theCity Park, and the renovation o the institutions already present Liget Budapest will beone o Budapests leading, well-known tourist and cultural destinations and a uniqueamily park recognised as such all over Europe.This document is the competition programme o our parallel, but independentdesign competitions with similar conditions and the aim o producing a total o fivebuilding concepts. Each may submit only one entry to any o the our, simultaneous-ly announced, two-stage international design competitions. It is however possible totake part in several competitions at the same time, but separate, individual competi-

tion entries with different identification code must be submitted to each competition.The detailed rules and inormation o the competition is outlined in section 5.

The our competitions are listed below.1. New shared building o the New National Gallery and Ludwig Museum Muse-um o Contemporary Art2. New building o the Museum o Ethnography3. New building complex o the Hungarian Museum o Architecture and the Foto-Muzeum, consisting o two separate buildings4. New building o the House o Hungarian Music

The our competitions will take place based on a common, identical system o rulesand with the participation o the same jury, and according to the same evaluationsystem.The total prize money o the competition is 870,000 EUR.This competition programme was compiled in accordance with the Hungarian legal reg-ulations in orce and the guidelines o the Union Internationale des Architectes (UIA).



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1.2.1 OBJECTIVESThe aim o the design competition is to find designers whose entries unctionally satisy the expectations o the 21st century in regard to museums, andwill provide flexible spaces or the institutions and the right conditions to acilitatetheir visitor-riendly operation in the coming decades

provide a lasting aesthetical experience or visitors at the highest level o contem-porary architecture and contribute to the enrichment o the architectural heritage oBudapest;

treat the historical environment o the City Park with respect; are composed o buildings conveying specific and strong architectural ideas, createa clearly recognizable and identifiable building complex that is able to improve theinternational ame o Budapest and Hungarian culture;

provider open, transparent, inviting community spaces or the residents o Budapestand also or visitors rom other parts o Hungary and abroad;

propose design concepts that meet the highest requirements o sustainability in aninnovative way creating exemplary buildings; are cost effective with smart solutions; ensure low running costs or the institutions operating in them.

1.2.2 WHO AREWE LOOKING FOR?

The competition is open and international and has two stages. It is expected that theEntrants team include a person who officially has the right to practice as an architect inthe country where he/she was born and/or where he/she works. The Promoter empha-sises that afer the closing o the competition the negotiated procedure without priorpublication o a contract notice (public procurement process) will be conducted in theHungarian language.



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2.1 SUMMARYOF THE PROJECT

The Liget Budapest Project is one o the biggest museum projects currently on-goingin Europe. Its objective is the complete renewal o the green area o the City Park o

Budapest and to place five new museum buildings there along with the related otherprogramme elements. It is the intention o the Government o Hungary to implementthe most important elements o the Liget Budapest Project by 2018.

Today the Liget Budapest project contains the ollowing main points: construction o independent buildings o the Museum o Ethnography, FotoMuzeumBudapest (ormer Hungarian Museum o Photography), Hungarian Museum o Archi-tecture, and the House o Hungarian Music, as well as the construction o a commonbuilding complex or the New National Gallery and Ludwig Museum using designers

selected within the ramework o this design competition beyond the present design area the implementation o a new storage and restorationacility (OMRRK) on the state owned territory o a ormer hospital in Szabolcs Street

outside the present design area the restoration o the Roman Hall o the Museum oFine Arts, which still bears the marks o damage inflicted upon it during World War II

beyond the present design area the restoration and conversion o the Fort Monostoro Komrom into the Fort Monostor Centre or Arts, History and Warare with the pur-pose o displaying the plaster cast collection o the Museum o Fine Arts

comprehensive reconstruction o the green area o the City Park as within the ramework o the Pannon Park Project the extension o the Budapest

Zoo and Botanical Garden on the territory o the closed down Luna Park construction o the new building o the Budapest City Circus in the City Park on theterritory o the ormer Luna Park

partial reconstruction and underground enlargement o the Hungarian Technical andTransport Museum on the territory o the City Park finding and implementation o a comprehensive energy concept or the planned newbuildings



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2.2 NATIONAL MUSEUMRESTORATION AND STORAGECENTRE (OMRRK)

Beside the implementation o several new buildings and the reurbishment o othersa new restoration and storage acility will be erected on the Szabolcs Street in the 13thdistrict, on the territory o a ormer hospital as a oundational phase in the whole LigetBudapest development process. The new centre will primarily be used by the institu-tions involved in the project.The aim is the construction o a centre capable o effectively and appropriately storingthe non-displayed artwork o the museums in question with the capacity to providehigh quality spaces and equipment or restoration purposes.Every institution in this competition with a permanent collection will be accorded stor-age space and a restoration acility in the new centre.

2.3 THE HISTORY OF THE PROJECT2.3.1 PREPARATORY STAGE

On 15 February, 2011 Lszl Ban, the Director-General o the Museum o Fine Arts andGza Szcs Gza, the Secretary o State or Culture announced that the Hungarian Gov-ernment is planning a large-scale museum project in the City Park, on tvenhatosok

Square that will encompass several institutions.In October 2011 Lszl Ban was appointed Governmental Commissioner o the Project.He has been directing the work as the Ministerial Commissioner since summer 2012 onbehal o the Ministry o Human Resources.In July 2012 Lszl Ban and Lszl L. Simon, the Secretary o State or Culture,announced the final programme o the project according to which the New National Gal-lery, the Museum o Ethnography, the Hungarian Museum o Architecture, and as a new-ly established institution the House o Hungarian Music will be accorded a place in the



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City Park by 2018, urthermore the Ludwig Museum o Budapest Museum o Contem-porary Art will move to a new building, which it will share with the New National Gal-lery. Outstanding among the other associated projects is the partial reconstruction othe Museum o Fine Arts, as well as the development o the National Museum Storageand Restoration Centre not ar rom the City Park. The comprehensive renewal o theCity Park also became an important integrated element o the project in addition to thenew structure composed o the institutions moving here or already operating on the site.

With the participation o the leading associates o the institutions and o invited exter-nal experts special work teams were set up or the managing o the restructuring o theinstitutions and or the development o the unctional and aesthetical concept o the newbuildings, while the coordination o the project was given to the newly established NewNational Public Collection Building Complex Project Office o the Museum o Fine Arts.As rom January 2014 the Project Office will continue its work as part o the 100% state-owned Vrosliget Zrt.The ollowing proessional organizations took part in the preparatory work under thecoordination o the Project Office:on behal o the Museums involved

Museum o Ethnography Hungarian National Gallery Ludwig Museum Museum o Contemporary Art Museum o Fine Arts Museum o Hungarian Architecture Hungarian Museum o Photography;

on behal o the Hungarian Museum sector Hungarian National Committee o the International Council o Museums Pulszky Society Association o Hungarian Museums

National Association o Public Collectionson behal o the Hungarian architect proession

Chamber o Hungarian Architects Association o Hungarian Architects Budapest Chamber o Architects;

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the Mayors Office o Budapest Municipality, Office o the Chie Architect o Budapest District XIV o Budapest, Local Government o Zugl, Urban Development Office;

representing the culture and heritage protection organizations the Gyula Forster National Centre or Cultural Heritage Management the Hungarian Academy o Art;

as Manager o the City Park Fkert Nonprofit Zrt.;

organization responsible or Budapest public transport BKK Centre or Budapest Transport

2.3.2 GOVERNMENTAL DECISIONSThe Government o Hungary has several times expressed its intention to establish aMuseum Quarter. The ollowing Government Decisions contain the Governmentsdecision on the selection o the site or the Museum Quarter and the institutions to beintegrated:Government Decision no. 1353/2011. (X. 20.)On the measures needed or the implementation o a suite o buildings or the newnational public collection as part o the Andrssy Quarter and or the reduction o tra-fic in Heroes SquareGovernment Decision no. 1031/2013. (I. 30.)On the measures needed or the implementation o a suite o buildings or the newnational public collection as part o the Andrssy Quarter and or the reduction o tra-fic in Heroes SquareGovernment Decision no. 1397/2013. (VII. 2.)

On the comprehensive utilization concept o the City Park as the second phase in theconcept concerning the new national public collection building complex

Further relevant decrees and decisions: Government Decree no. 563/2013. (XII. 31.) Government Decree no. 546/2013. (XII. 30.) Government Decision no. 1529/2013. (VII. 12.)



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2.3.3 PARLIAMENTARY DECISIONAct CCXLII o 2013 on the Rehabilitation and development o the City ParkFor a period o 99 years the whole territory o the City Park will come under the man-agement o Vrosliget Zrt. 100% owned by the State. During the tenure o the assetmanagement right o the asset manager the buildings constructed as separate prop-

erties on the real estate o City Park will become 100% state-owned properties by theorce o the law. The winners o this international design competition will be contract-ed by Vrosliget Zrt.

2.3.4 IDEAS COMPETITION, 2013As part o the Liget Budapest Project the Museum o Fine Arts announced an openinternational ideas competition on 8 July, 2013 or environmental restructuring, andor urban and location issues pertaining to the New National Public Collection Build-ing Complex. The defined task was to identiy a venue or museums on the land siteunder topographical no. 29732/1 o the City Park, namely on tvenhatosok Squareand in its environs, the renewal o said environs along with the conservation o the pro-tected buildings, public area elements, and natural environmental values in such away that improves the green area indicators and increases biological activity afer theimplementation.The competition emphasises that in respect to the selection o the site a decisive ele-ment was the enorcement o the ollowing criteria: the basic development conceptrequired that a design location be ound with historical traditions acilitating cultural

lie and the spending o leisure time, with ties to the existing institutional system o theMuseums and connected to a good green area with excellent transport conditions.By the deadline 47 pcs o works were received in an undamaged condition or the ide-as competition. The Jury disqualified 2 entries or content and ormal reasons.The members o the Jury were:Lszl Ban Ministerial Commissioner (Museum o Fine Arts) as Chairman, ErvinNagy National Chie Architect (MI) as Co-Chairman, Zoltn Rosts Project Director(Museum o Fine Arts) as proessional Secretary, Ferenc Barta Chie Architect o Zugl



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(the Mayors Office o Zugl), Imre Blint President (Budapest Chamber o Architects),Zoltn Cselovszki President (Forster Gyula Centre), Gyrgy Fekete, President o theHungarian Academy o Arts, Sndor Finta Chie Architect o Budapest (The MayorsOffice o Budapest), Lajos Kemecsi Director-General (Museum o Ethnography), Gyr-gy Sros Lszl President (Association o Hungarian Architects), Andrienne SzalkaiDesign Director (FKERT), substitute member: Pl Ritok Director (Museum o Hun-garian Architecture). The Jury was assisted in its work by 12 experts.

The Jury was o the opinion that the competition has achieved its objective. Severalproessionally interesting and sustainable concepts were submitted or the locating othe buildings, or the development o the urban structural relations and o the greenarea and transport system. O them those works were outstanding that in line with therequirements and conditions o the competition call have approached the renewal othe City Park in a complex way. In connection with the garden and landscape architec-tural concepts, the transport systems and routes and in respect to the location o thebuildings good solutions were submitted worthy o urther consideration. Most o thesubmitted works contained calculations confirming that the green area and the biolog-ical activity there not only can be maintained, but even increased by the right selectiono the venue o the new buildings and by considering the City Park as a complex system.The result o the ideas competition was announced on 3 October,, 2013. 12 entrieswere awarded: three first places without ranking, three second places without rank-ing, three special purchases and three purchases were made with total prize money o19.5 million HUF. The authors o the three 1st prize winning works: Philaemon 2003 Kf.(Zsolt Farsang, kos Bolla, Istvn Berkeczi, Levente Molnr G., Viktor Bodnr), Triskellplettervez Kf. (Zoltn Horvth, Blint Terdik Blint, Rka Izmindi, kos Kovcs,Jnos Viczai) and Kollektv Mterem Kf. (Zoltn Kovcs, Gyula Csontos, GabriellaKatalin Madari).



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2.3.5 INTERNATIONAL DESIGNCOMPETITION, 2014

When announcing the final programme o Liget Budapest project in July 2012 LszlBan, the Governmental Commissioner, declared: an open, confidential international

design competition will be announced or the design o the new buildings. The prepa-ration or this competition started in 2012.The Governmental Commissioner declared: an open, confidential international designcompetition will be announced or the design o the new buildings. The preparation othis competition started in 2012.In the meantime Lord Culture rom Paris, the subsidiary o the Canadian Lord CulturalResources, and the regional representative o the Union Internationale des Architecteshave also joined in the preparation o the international design competition.According to the plans the international design competition announced in 2014 willbe closed by the end o the year. This phase will be ollowed by a design process cov-ering the whole City Park in cooperation with the winning designers in 2015, in parallelwith the preparation o the drawings o the various buildings. The construction workwill commence in 2016 and the buildings will be completed by 2018.It is the intention o the Promoter that afer the successul closing o the internationaldesign competition Vrosliget Zrt. will sign a contract with the authors o the winningentries and implement the acilities based on the designs to be prepared.



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2.4 A THE LOCATION:CITY PARK, BUDAPEST2.4.1 HISTORY

1806 According to his last will and testament, Jakab Toporczi Horvth, a lawyer wasburied in the City Park, with only one Latin word inscribed on his gravestone:Fuit, i.e.: Lived. Today this gravestone is the oldest object in the City Park.

1808 The Beautiying Committee was set up on the initiative o Palatine Joseph withthe priority aim o turning the City Park into a well-kept public park.

1810 Leopold Grossinger sets up his carrousel and this becomes the first permanentamusement place in the City Park.

1811 The first manned balloon flight o Hungary takes places in the City Park.1813 The Beautiying Committee announces an international competition or the

design o the garden o the City Park. The winner o the competition is the Ger-man autodidact designer Heinrich Christian Nebbien, who at that time lived inPest; his plans were only partially implemented.

1837 Opening o the dancing saloon o Flp Tauber.1838 The setting up o the first permanent side-show.1856 Jnos Scitovszky Archbishop o Esztergom consecrates the chapel erected in

memory o Hermina Amlia Habsburg Archduchess on the edge o the CityPark based on the designs o architect Jzse Hild.

1863 The City Park is reorganized under the direction o rmin Petz, Chie gardener.1866 Opening o the Zoological Garden.around 1870 The un-air moves to the city-side o Hermina Street, opposite to Bet-

hesda Hospital.1876 The final route o Andrssy Road is finished and takes over rom Vrosligeti

alle the role o main road leading to the City park.1877 The test drillings and borings by Vilmos Zsigmondy, a mining engineer,explore

thermal springs rich in minerals on the site presently occupied by Heroes Square.1885 The National Exhibition opens. Its only one building that still exists today is the

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1889 Opening o the first circus in the City Park under the directorship o Ede Wulff.1893 Opening o the building and first Ice Skating Rink o the City Park in the City park

lake bed.1894 Opening o the building o the Wampetics (today Gundel) Restaurant.1895 Opening o the Kunsthalle (Hall o Arts) (architects: Albert Schikedanz Flp

Herzog).1896 With the extension o the territory o the National Exhibition the Millennium

Exhibition is opened in more than 200 halls and next to it the s-Budavra(Ancient Buda Castle) entertainment district. The Millennium Underground isfinished.

1897 Opening o the Commercial Museum in the building o the Industrial Hal.1899 The Hungarian Royal Transport Museum opens in the Transport Hall o the Mil-

lennium Exhibition designed by Ferenc Paff.1905 The collection o the Ethnographic Storage, the predecessor o the present

Museum o Ethnography is placed in the building o the Industrial Hall.1906 The construction o the Museum o Fine Arts designed by Albert Schikedanz

and Flp Herczog completed. The Millennium Monument is inaugurated onHeroes Square (architect: Albert Schikedanz, sculpture: Gyrgy Zala).

1908 Opening o the exhibition o the Museum o Agriculture in the VajdahunyadCastle rebuilt to its permanent orm.

1909 The Art Nouveau building o the City Park Theatre, the work o Lszl Vgis inaugurated on the corner o the present Dzsa Gyrgy Street and AjtsiDrer all.

1912 The English Park, the predecessor o the Amusement Park opens on the placeo s-Budavra. Its main amusements are the Sikl (Funicular), the Americanelevated railway and the Egyptian village. The renewed Municipal Zoological

and Botanical Garden enlarged based on the designs o Kroly Ks, Dezs Zru-meczky and Kornl Neuschloss is reopened.

1913 The Szchenyi Bath built on the thermal springs o the well o Vilmos Zsigmon-dy and designed by Gyz Czigler, Ede Dvorzak and Klmn Gerster is opened.The French garden in ront o the Bath is completed according to the designs oKroly Rde Kroly Chie gardener o Budapest.

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1929 The Memorial Stone o the National Heroes is inaugurated on Heroes Square. Itis replaced by a new stone block in 1956.

1931 The Neo-Roman building o the Magna Domina Hungarorum or in its more well-known name Regnum Marianum Church on Dzsa Gyrgy Street, built accord-ing to the designs o Ivn Kotsis, is consecrated.

1938 Heroes Square is the site o the Saint Steven Memorial Year and o the 34thEucharistic World Congress and to honour this occasion it is given a new deco-

rative pavement designed by Gyula Petrovcz.1941 On Heroes Square a delegation rom the Soviet Union returns the army flagstaken in 1848-49 back to Hungary.

1944-1945 The Zoo was nearly completely destroyed during the bombing o the West-ern railway station. The Museum o Fine Arts, the Hall o Arts, the MillenniumMemorial and the Transport Museum also suffered serious damage. The Indus-trial Hall was completely destroyed.

1950 Nationalization o the English Park and its integration with the un park; thegrifers disappear rom the City Park or good.

1951 The buildings o the City Park Theatre and o Magna Domina HungarorumChurch are demolished; the 850 meter long, 85 metre wide Procession Squareis established in their place as the venue or great national events.

1956 On October 23 the crowd gathered on the square topple the statue o Stalin bySndor Mikus unveiled in 1951. Afer the suppression o the revolution the baseo the statue was turned into a podium, the statue was not restored.

1965 Not ar rom the Hall o Arts the statue o Lenin, a work o art by Pl Ptzay, isunveiled in Procession Square. Afer an international ideas competition MiklsHer and his colleagues are entrusted with the design work or the new Nation-al Theatre building.

1966 The Museum o Transport that suffered serious damage in World War II is reo-pened in its partly restored and enlarged building.

1972 The Budapest International Fair finally moves out o the City Park. Most o thebuildings are demolished, landscaping is made on their sites. During the worklasting until 1978 the Kirlydomb (Hill o Kings) is built out o the debris o thebuildings and rom the earth excavated during the construction works.

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1985 The Petfi Hall Programme centre is opened in the new building o the Industri-al Hall reconstructed according to the designs o Judit Tihanyi and Gyrgy Hal-mos giving place to the Permanent Exhibition o History o Aviation and Astro-nautics o the Transport Museum on the first floor.

1990 Afer the change in the political system the statues in Procession Square aremoved to the Memento Park. O the pedestal o the Memorial o the Hungar-ian Soviet Republic the memorial place o the church that once stood there is

established.1994 The total restoration o the Hall o Arts is finished.1996 The complete rehabilitation o the Millennium Memorial is finished by the time

o the Mille Centenary celebrations.2004 On the occasion o the accession o Hungary to the European Union the Time

Wheel statue (designers: Jnos Herner Istvn Janky, jr.) is unveiled in Proces-sion Square.

2006 The central Monument o the 1956 Revolution is unveiled in Felvonulsi Square,on the site previously occupied by the statue o Stalin. (Designers: i-ypszilonDesign Team: Tams Emdi-Kiss, Katalin Gyrgy, Csaba Horvth, Tams Papp.) Onthis occasion the square is given the name tvenhatosok Square (Square o 56).

2012 The complete reconstruction o the Ice Skating Rink is finished.2013 The Amusement Park is closed or good, its site is given to the Municipal Zoo-

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Main access routes

Andrssy Road since 1876 it has been the main access road rom the City centre tothe City Park. The road has detached buildings on it by Kodly Krnd including sever-al diplomatic institutions, universities and museums.

City Park alle beore the construction o Andrssy Road this was the main accessroad o the City Park as a continuation o Kirly Street. Detached villas stand on it. Thisalle is the border line o districts VI and VII.

Dzsa Gyrgy Street a busy, six lane road bordering the City Park rom the West withresidential houses and office buildings in an unbroken row.

Ajtsi Drer Avenue a busy, six lane road with several educational institutions in anunbroken row.

Stenia 19th century promenade with detached villas, studios and representa-tive buildings. Important public transport, pedestrian and bicycle connection toIstvnmez.

Hermina street Cultural main road o Zugl with villas rom the 19th-20th centuries

and two Roman Catholic churches.

Entrance section o the M3 motorway link developed in the 1970s and providingaccess to the M3 motorway rom the city centre via Ks Kroly promenade.

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City parts of the area

District VI (Terzvros) its City Park section mainly has detached residential houseson it. The smaller part is composed o an unbroken row o buildings.

District VII (Erzsbetvros) except or the Vrosligeti alle it is a densely built-up

urban district primarily with a residential unction.

District VII (Erzsbetvros) except or the Vrosligeti alle it is a densely built-upurban district primarily with a residential unction.

District XIV (Zugl), Istvnmez with detached, representative buildings around Ste-nia. The sports complex established around Pusks Ferenc Stadium and Papp LszlBudapest Arena is an important element o this city part and determines the unction-ality o the City Park.



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2.4.3 INSTITUTIONAL SYSTEMOF THE CITY PARK

Institutions Museum o Fine Arts

Municipal Zoological and BotanicalGarden Grand Circus o Budapest Szchenyi Bath Petfi Hall Hermina Chapel Hungarian Technical and TransportMuseum

Olo Palme House House o Hun-garian Artists

Vajdahunyad Castle HungarianAgricultural Museum Ice Skating Rink o City Park Hall o Arts

Service and Commercial units Robinson Restaurant Bagolyvr Restaurant Gundel Restaurant Saddle (Nyereg)

Beer tent Pntlika Bistro Wagon My Garden

Main monuments, statues Millennium Monument, Heroes

Square Memorial Stone o Heroes Archer Ignc Alpr Statue o Anonymous Agricultural Pantheon Sir Winston Churchill George Washington Ronald Reagan Regnum Marianum Memorial Cross Monument o the Revolution o 56 Time Wheel



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2.4.4 STRATEGIC ISSUES2.4.4.1 HISTORIC AND HISTORICAL PARK

The City Park established in the 1810s was the first urban public park in the world thatwas specifically created or public use on its own territory o the city, managed and

financed by the city. The area has an important and valuable historical plant popu-lation the preservation and restoration o which is a main priority o the Liget Buda-pest project. During the 19th-20th centuries the historical park structure was all butdestroyed in several phases as a result o the creation o the greater part o the park. Itspartial restoration within the ramework o the project is a task or the near uture. Asa result o the ideas competition preceding this design competition and announced in2013 or the ormation o the environment, location and urban development it can bestated that the City Park is a special urban public park that comprises a certain histor-ical coverage. The Liget Budapest project will continue this tradition and will restorethe historical area o the Park with the transormation o tvenhatosok Square andwith the restoration o the whole green area while preserving its values.



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2.4.4.2 HISTORICAL IMPORTANCE,WORLD HERITAGE RANK

The City Park is a site o symbolic importance in Hungarian national history, and it isa significant recreational and programme venue or modern Budapest. The Nation-

al Exhibition organized here in 1885 and the Millennium Exhibition held in 1896 con-stitute outstanding events in the modern history o Hungary. Heroes Square, built atthe end o the 19th century, also bore witness to significant events, while the adjoiningtvenhatosok Square was the scene o one o the most important events o the 1956revolution; the pulling down o Stalins statue. Until the 1970s the Budapest Interna-tional Fair was organized in the City Park and was regarded as a window to the worldor the countries belonging to the socialist bloc. Today the City Park and its squaresprovide venues or several programmes and events o national importance while itsinstitutions communicate the remarkable values o Hungary not only to Hungarian citi-zens but also to the oreign guests visiting Hungary.

Since 1965 the whole territory o the City Park has been a protected site o historicalmonumental significance.Since 2002 Andrssy Road and Heroes Square (together with the buildings o the Hallo Arts and the Museum o Fine Arts) have been World Heritage sites, the whole terri-tory o the City Park is regarded as a protective zone o the World Heritage site.Since 2012 Heroes Square has been a National Memorial Site having decisive impor-tance in the nations history, playing an outstanding role in the sel-image o the nationdue to its ability to strengthen the sense o belonging together and identity o the Hun-garians, as well as o the Hungarian and other nationalities living on the territory o the

country, and can be the scene o commemorations o national importance organizedby the state and declared by the orce o law a national memorial site by the Parliament

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2.4.4.3 URBAN GREEN SURFACEThe City Park is one o the dominant green areas o Budapest and has vital importanceas a venue or the spending o leisure time and recreational activities o the capitalsresidents.The continuous green area o the City Park plays an important role in the processing ocarbon dioxide, in the oxygen supply, in the binding down o flying dust and the adher-ent harmul materials, and in the enrichment o the humidity o the air. From this pointo view the older trees with bigger crowns play an especially significant role.Afer Margaret Island this is the second most requently visited park in the capital, andevery year approximately 4 million people come to visit the institutions and the greenareas.However, the circle o people using the park as a venue or everyday recreationdemonstrates a declining tendency in parallel with the deterioration o the park. Com-pared to the ormer data the share o passive recreation is increasing and the timespent in the park is decreasing these tendencies are mainly due to the aoremen-

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2.4.4.4 ALLTHEYEAR ROUNDRECREATION DESTINATION

The City Park is an important leisure time destination or the residents living in theneighbourhood and in Budapest. Primarily owing to the lack o other opportunitiesthree quarters o the people who come here choose passive recreation: they walk, walktheir dogs, have picnics or enjoy the sun. 10% o the visitors use the playground (school-age children, children with amilies). The rest o the visitors actively use the inra-structure o the park, which, however, is only partially developed: while a ground orextreme sports and a ootball field can be ound in the park there is no running trackor joggers. The green area o the park provides opportunities or recreation and sports,or individuals and teams, but the physical conditions are only partly or not at all pro-vided. In winter the 15 thousand square-metre ice surace o the City Park Skating Rinkis an important option, the most important target or the capitals skaters.



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2.4.4.5 PROGRAMMESThe City Park is traditionally a central programme venue. O the political and cultur-al events with historical importance the National Exhibition in 1885, the Millenni-um Exhibition held in 1896, as well as the Budapest International Fair organized herebetween 1925-1972 were outstanding. O the important one-time or regular eventsmention must be made o the Eucharistic World Congress held in 1938 and the mass oPope John Paul II in Heroes Square in 1991, as well as the popular estivities and pro-cessions organized in the tvenhatosok Square between 1951 and 1989.Nowadays the park also provides the venue or a number o cultural events and esti-vals. Our national holidays, mainly on national holidays, on 1 May and 20 August. Since2008 the National Gallop race has been organized in Heroes Square at the end oeach summer. O the sports events regularly held in the City Park the running competi-tions are also important.In addition to the above-mentioned public events, the City Park ofen provides thevenue or political, business or private programmes. In this respect, the outstanding

venues are the Museum o Fine Arts, the Szchnyi Bath and the Vajdahunyad Castle.The Jki Chapel, the most popular venue or weddings in Budapest, is located in thelast o these buildings.Several special programme sites can be ound in the City Park. For example the Gar-den o the Blind to be visited only by the visually impaired, or the traffic park built spe-cifically or children in ront o the Hungarian Technical and Transport Museum.



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2.4.4.6 TOURIST DESTINATIONThe City Park is still the number one destination point o oreign and domestic tour-ism in Budapest. Tourists rom abroad mainly come here to visit Heroes Square, theMuseum o Fine Arts and the Szchenyi Bath, while the Hungarian visitors are most-ly attracted by the Museum o Fine Arts, by the Municipal Zoological and BotanicalGarden mainly visited by school groups and amilies, and by the Hungarian Technicaland Transport Museum. Besides this, the other cultural and museum institutions othe area, the historical and artistic memories, as well as the natural and recreationalendowments also add to the attraction o the Park.However, as ar as tourism is concerned the City Park has a lot o shortcomings. Thetouristic inrastructure is underdeveloped and deficient; there are significant hiatusesboth in the field o transport, services and retail trade. On top o this there is a lack oprivate accommodation in the area.The Liget Budapest project will compensate or most o these deficiencies and willstimulate major private investment.



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2.4.4.7 TRANSPORTToday the territory o the City Park is bordered by transport routes conducting greattransit traffic (Dzsa Gyrgy Street, Ajtsi Drer alle) and by roads mainly o localimportance carrying a smaller traffic volume (Hermina Street). O the routes cross-ing the territory o the park public traffic is allowed on the llatkerti ring road, on theVrosligeti ring road and on Ks Kroly promenade. Ks Kroly promenade is also animportant axis in the East-West direction traffic o Budapest since it is the junctionpoint o Andrssy Road leading to the Downtown and o Hungria boulevard, i.e. o theouter ring road, as well as o the M3 motorway leading to the Eastern part o the coun-try. The other roads o the inner part o the City Park mainly serve pedestrian and bicy-cle traffic and public transport.In cooperation with the Centre or Budapest Transport the whole automobile trafficand public transport concept o the City Park will be completely revised within theramework o the Liget Budapest project in the near uture. The most important pointto be studied is how the traffic can be reduced, or eventually completely closed on Ks

Kroly promenade, which cuts the City Park into two parts, and on the multi-lane roadsseparating Heroes Square rom the surrounding buildings. The plans also envisage thereplacement by electric buses o the current illogical and out-dated trolley bus pub-lic transport system o the City Park. The plans also contain the reconsideration o theother public transport links (millennium underground, buses) and the establishmento a possible new underground stop. The envisaged moving walkway could provide apublic transport connection to the new museum buildings planned in Dzsa GyrgyStreet and to the deep garages to be built here.Within the ramework o the Liget Budapest project the number o the excessively

wide and densely built asphalt paved traffic routes currently leading through the CityPark will be rationalized in order to expand the green area.Besides the above the City Park is affected by two important elements o the transportdevelopment plan o Budapest. Several stations o the BuBi public bicycle network tobe implemented in 2014 will be established in streets leading to the City Park, there-ore the growth o bicycle traffic can be expected. According to the medium term plansthe whole area o the City Park will be included in the entrance ee zone to be intro-duced afer 2016 the border line o which will be Hermina Street.


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2.4.4.8 CLIMATE, WEATHERBudapest is situated in the temperate zone with a Continental climate. The coldestmonth is January with an average temperature o 1.6 C, while the hottest monthis July with an average temperature around 21C. The yearly average temperature is11.0C. Until now the highest temperature (40.7 C) was recorded on 20 July, 2007,while the lowest one (-25.6 C) was recorded on 13 January, 1987.The average annual precipitation volume in Budapest is 533 mm. In early summer andlate autumn we have two months with more rain, while rom mid-winter until earlyspring and in early autumn the weather is drier. The least precipitation can be expect-ed in February-March, and the biggest volume o rain about twice as much alls inMay-June.In Budapest the annual average number o sunshine hours is 1,930 showing great vari-ance rom year to year. A typical cycle can be observed in the period o sunshine hoursover the year, the maximum is in the summer months (250-270 hours per month), whilethe minimum is in the period between November-January (50-70 hour per month).

Thanks to the Carpathian Mountains and the Transdanubian mountain ranges Buda-pest is protected rom wind. The prevailing wind direction is North-West. The autumnseason is ofen windless, which contributes to the ormation o og.

2.4.4.9 ARCHAEOLOGYSince historically the City Park was an uninhabited area no significant archaeologicalremains can be expected to be ound on the building sites. The underground remains

o the Magna Domina Hungarorum (more commonly Regnum Marianum) churchdemolished in 1951 are outside the present design area, to the north o the crossing oDvorak promenade and Dzsa Gyrgy Street. The purpose is to establish a dignifiedmemorial place here in the later stage o the project.


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2.5 KEY DEVELOPMENT POINTSOF LIGET BUDAPEST PROJECT2.5.1 CULTURAL POLICY

In the two centuries since the oundation o the Hungarian National Museum in 1802the museums have become the top institutions o Hungarian cultural lie.In recent decades, however, the visitor has become more and more important in themuseum world and through this the knowledge-transerring, inormative role o themuseums has come to the ore. Today a well-run museum presents many aces. Besidesmaintaining its scientific integrity, candour and depth, it gives over in ull and enrich-es the collection entrusted to it but in the meantime is also open to the changes inthe world, reacts flexibly to the requirements o its visitors and initiates cooperationwith other institutions, social groups and business partners when thinking responsiblyabout its own uture. The Liget Budapest project will create the first truly 21st century

museums o Hungary in Budapest with a pioneering role in Hungarian cultural policy.

2.5.2 MUSEOLOGICAL REQUIREMENTSThe majority o the museum institutions participating in the Liget Budapest projecthave serious inrastructural problems today. The projects purpose is to solve theseproblems in such a way that Hungary would be able to provide an exemplary environ-ment or the arteacts and collections o significant importance, or the experts who

take care o them and or interested visitors. The creation o inrastructure ensuring tothe maximum the handling and protection o the museum collections, the establish-ing o flexible conditions or proessional research and display according to the worthyand changing expectations, as well as unctional design meeting the requirements andspecial needs o the visitors are equally important requirements o the project.


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2.5.3 CULTURAL TOURISMLiget Budapest will be the number one cultural and tourist attraction o Budapest inthe 21st century. This attraction is due to its unique complexity. The wide range o insti-tutions operating here ranges rom transport through fine art to ethnography provid-ing wide scope, long-term cultural experiences or visitors. The Zoo and the Szche-nyi Bath provide high quality leisure activities or all age groups while children arewelcome by the Children and Youth Knowledge and Adventure Centre specificallydesigned or them. With the improvement o the current restaurant supply o the CityPark the site can become a target o gastro tourism. The renewed greenery will pro-vides a true experience not only as a public park o Budapest rich in outstanding his-torical and artistic memories, but as the venue or active recreation or those livingnearby or visiting here.

2.5.4 MUSEUM ORGANIZATIONALAND ECONOMIC CONSIDERATIONS

Today most o the Hungarian museums are operating in buildings that do not meet thecontemporary energetic requirements, they can typically be ound in several locationsand the organization o their activities is inefficient or reasons beyond their control.The clear purpose o the Liget Budapest project is to provide an exemplary solution orthese organizational and economic problems. The National Restoration and StorageCentre o Museums to be established on a nearby site outside the borders o the City

Park on land earmarked or rehabilitation will provide proessionally better, saer anda more economical solution or the management o the artwork collections. The use osustainable energy sources, the development o a common energetic supply built ogeo-thermal energy with outstanding potential will be given priority importance in theconstruction o the new museum buildings in the City Park.


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2.5.5 URBAN REHABILITATIONThe City Park, the oldest public park in Budapest now shows signs o negligence. Mosto the visitors who come to the park are dissatisfied with the services, with the every-day maintenance, with the quality o green areas; most o them think that a completeor partial rehabilitation is needed. The majority o residential quarters surrounding theCity Park are o high prestige yet very run down areas, partly densely built-up and withmore and more popular emerging residential zones. The development o the City Parkbased on cultural activities is a long-term target that may attract significant private cap-ital in the nearby areas and could serve as a model or the uture urban development oHungary.

2.5.6 ENVIRONMENT, ENERGY,SUSTAINABILITY

Sustainable architectural design means an exact system o rules that have now beendeveloped, which, however, always gives way to site-specific innovation. The detailedsustainability requirements are contained in section 4.

2.6 MANAGEMENT, PARTICIPANTSThe investment will be financed by the Hungarian Government under the manage-

ment o the 100% state-owned Vrosliget Zrt. ounded by the government. Pursuant toAct CCXLII o 2013 the whole area o the City Park will be included under the manage-ment o Vrosliget Zrt. or 99 years, and the buildings built here will become the prop-erty o the Hungarian State.


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2.7 THE CITY: BUDAPEST2.7.1 BRIEF HISTORICALSUMMARY

The history o the past two thousand years has proved that Budapest is a city o con-tinuous renewal and renaissance. The German, Avar and Slavic tribes building on theruins o Roman Aquincum, the Hungarians ounding cities in the 10th century, Ger-mans settling here afer the Mongol invasion in 1241-1242, French and Italian peoplecoming to the royal court, and Serbs as well as Bosnians coming here during the 150-year Turkish occupation, all prove that during its history the city was open and a recip-ient to new cultures. As Saint Steven, the first King o the Hungarians wrote in theAdmonitions to his son in 1027: because a one language and one custom country isweak and allible.Pest, Buda and buda was united in 1873 as Budapest. The city experienced its golden

ages during the days o the Austro-Hungarian Empire. At the end o the 19th century itbecame a rich, vibrant and modern European metropolis. The 50-year long continu-ous growth o the country and the city ended with World War I. As a conclusion o thefinal peace agreement o the war Hungary lost two thirds o its territory which resultedin a serious economic and social crisis. In World War II, in 1944-45 Budapest sufferedrom a long siege costing many lives; that was ollowed by more than our decades oSoviet occupation.Afer the all o Communism the renascent Budapest redefined itsel as a natural, cul-tural and economic centre o Central Europe. This was demonstrated by such impor-

tant developments as the two new Danube bridges o Budapest, the Millennium Parkbuilt on the place o the terminated Ganz actory, the Millennium City Quarter withthe new National Theatre and the Palace o Arts, and the architecturally outstandingstations o the new Metro line no. 4 to be opened in 2014, as well as the continuousrehabilitation o the historical building stock that had deteriorated during the years oCommunism and representing outstanding value on a European scale.


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2.7.2 NEW CULTURAL TOURISMDESTINATION OF EUROPE FROM 2018:LIGET BUDAPEST

The aim o the development o the City Park is to create a cooperating system o insti-tutions strengthening each other that contributes to the diverse and extensive accessto cultural assets, as well as to the varied ways o spending leisure time. Parallel withthis the use value o the City Park should be increased, the green area and transportsystem should be renewed and the biological activity o the green areas should beimproved.The long-term objective o the new project and the related developments is to turn theCity Park into a amily theme park o unique complexity and quality and into an attrac-tive international tourist destination in Europe. The setting o this objective is justifiedbecause there is no other urban tissue in Europe with such a diversified, complex insti-

tutional network o 100-150 old buildings and o the planned new developments, likethe Zoo, the Szchenyi Bath, the Grand Circus, the Ice Skating Rink, the existing muse-ums and the newly established Museum Quarter.The international examples show that museums grouped into one quarter can attractmuch more visitors than i they stand alone. And i these museums will find a loca-tion close to other institutions and thus make possible the spending o leisure timeat a higher quality level, the attraction o the institutions could be multiplied and aninternationally significant and recognized brand name could be created that will beattractive or the tourists. The Liget Budapest project will create a cultural-recreational

urban space that could attract one million more visitors to the country every year. Pri-marily the number o those coming to Budapest or a 3-4 days city tour (city break) mayincrease.


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2.7.3 THE PRESENT MUSEUMSYSTEM OF BUDAPEST

Budapest is the museum centre o the country. Almost all the museums o a nationalscope can be ound here. Among them number one is the Hungarian National Muse-um ounded in 1802. Almost every specialized institution has branched off rom thismuseum, or example the Museum o Applied Arts in 1872, the Museum o Fine Artsin 1896, and the Hungarian Natural History Museum in 1933. In some cases these lat-ter museums were urther divided: the Hungarian National Gallery separated rom theMuseum o Fine Arts in 1957, although the two museums were organizationally reunit-ed in 2012.In regard to the artistic lie o Budapest, the Museum o Fine Arts is the leading andmost visited museum in the city, the exhibitions o which have been enjoying signi-icant interest rom Hungary and rom abroad or many years. For example, the VanGogh exhibition open between 1 December, 2006 and 1 April, 2007 attracted nearly

hal a million visitors, thus it was the 15th most visited exhibition in the world in thatyear and at the same time the most visited museum exhibition ever in Hungary.The privately managed or privately ounded, but publicly owned institutions composean organic part o the museum network o Budapest. The Hungarian Jewish Museumand Archives and the Ecclesiological art collection o the Matthias Church o Budathat are popular mainly due to the buildings where they are housed, or the Kogart Artcollection in one o the villas on Andrssy Road leading to the City Park, and also theHouse o Terror established in 2002 in memory o the victims o the 20th century dic-tatorships belong to this category.


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3.1 THE NEW NATIONAL GALLERYAND LUDWIG MUSEUM MUSEUMOF CONTEMPORARY ART

3.1.1 NEW NATIONAL GALLERYKey SentencesThe New National Gallery provides a comprehensive overview o European culture andthe Central European and Hungarian national identities through outstanding Europeanarteacts o the modern age and the richest collection o Hungarian fine art.The Museum building conveys the image o a dynamic and open, uture-oriented institu-tion that preserves with respect and interprets the arteacts assigned to it by the nation.

Mission statement

The New National Gallery as the most important public collection o its kind has beencollecting, preserving and displaying the relics o the European and Hungarian historyo art rom the beginning o the 19th century up to the present day. The museum pre-sents the arteacts to visitors at a high proessional level, with a good scientific back-ground and in an international context in a way that allows or an independent analysiso the Hungarian processes. The period covered by the permanent exhibition o theNew National Gallery spans rom 1800 to 1950. In addition to maintaining the culturalheritage, it is the mission o the New National Gallery to be widely available to the visi-tors based on the open Museum and the Museum or everyone principles. Its task is

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p y g pin the orm o an independent workshop, the GAIA lab. The Museum has close proes-sional ties with the international Museums o the world and takes part proactively indomestic and international art, art historian and museological discussions.Through its museum pedagogical activity the New National Gallery plays an impor-tant role in the visual education o young people and supports the implementation oschool and out-o-school educational programmes o the institutions o public edu-cation. Through attending to the diversified needs o the various social layers and by

acilitating complete access to digital contents the Museum orientates and educatesits visitors. Disadvantaged people, the physically disabled and handicapped are treat-ed as priority visitor groups in order to contribute to their social integration throughthe organization o special programmes. Through the cooperation with the differentfields o art, and by providing a place or theatre, as well as musical and literature pro-grammes the museum inspires the authors o the various arts or creative dialogue andcontributes to raising the level and quality o public culture.

3.1.2 LUDWIG MUSEUMKey sentences

The Ludwig Museum Museum o Contemporary Art houses the latest contemporaryculture; it is a member o the international Ludwig network and the leading contempo-rary art museum o Hungary.The Museum has been collecting and presenting the works o Hungarian and interna-tional fine art since the 1950s until the present day and is an important methodologicalcentre o the museums scientific and education work.

Its building is a worthy place in the first rank o contemporary artworks collected hereand it uses the global language o contemporary architecture.

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y g y,exhibition venue o the history and most prominent artists o the Hungarian and inter-national fine art specialized in the period rom 1950 to now.The principal unction o the museum is to collect, conserve and look afer the mate-rials and to research the art works, relics, documents and sources coming within thescope o collection, as well as to present the objects and research works at exhibitionsand in other orms. A priority unction is to present Hungarian art alongside interna-tional parallels and to place contemporary Hungarian art in its international context.

The Ludwig Museum Museum o Contemporary Art as the methodological centre othe presentation o contemporary art has a unique unction in the Hungarian system omuseums. It contributes to the social acceptance o contemporary art by the trainingo curators, by carrying out museum pedagogical and museological research work, byorganizing residence programmes and associate art programmes, and in addition helpsto acilitate an understanding o the complexity o the visual culture o our age.

3.2 MUSEUM OF ETHNOGRAPHYKey sentences

The Museum o Ethnography is the museum o people and their communities.The Museum is one o the earliest ethnographic institutions o Europe operating since1872 and it is a social museum proud o its collection o outstanding value, and is alsoopen to the uture and to renewal; its building will be designed in this spirit.The Museum o Ethnography is a place where all members o society return with pleas-ure because it mirrors themselves and their roots.

Mission statementAs one o the earliest ethnographic museums in Europe the Museum o Ethnography hasbeen collecting, archiving, protecting, researching and transmitting the traditional andmodern cultural memories o Hungarian and European communities, as well as thosebeyond Europe since 1872. This is a collection o objects, photos, texts, sounds and ideasthat constitutes a rich and wide-ranging resource or the discovery o the world.The Museum o Ethnography as a social museum is the reflective site o research anddisplay o the past and present object culture and social phenomena. It is the leading

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g g p p gyanthropology, and the scientific workshop o the Museum.Owing to its collection and knowledge base the Museum is a starting point or othersciences and arts in understanding, accepting and respecting cultural memory, cultur-al diversity and changing identities. The harmony o knowledge, adventure and experi-ence allows the ormulation o common and individual interpretations and approaches.

3.3 HUNGARIAN MUSEUMOF ARCHITECTUREAND FOTOMUZEUM BUDAPEST3.3.1 HUNGARIAN MUSEUMOF ARCHITECTUREKey sentences

The Hungarian Museum o Architecture is the house o traditions and innovation. Itis a research centre, exhibition venue and social orum with relevant programmes orthe users and designers o the buildings, considering architecture a public matter andembracing its whole spectrum rom the flat to the city.

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As an international research centre the Hungarian Museum o Architecture is the num-

ber one and richest source o the architectural, building industrial and urban history othe Carpathian Basin. With its proessional work it actively contributes to the compre-hensive and inter-disciplinary analysis o the history, present and uture o architec-ture. By placing the architectural product into a regional and global context it contrib-utes to the understanding o the changes in the built environment and o the evolutiono the architectural scope o responsibilities. It supports the cooperation betweendomestic proessional organizations, and plays a role in the maintenance and populari-zation o the institutional system o architecture.

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gpublic matter rom the first ideas through the building process to usage. Thereore itregards its target group as all those who are interested in architecture and aims to rep-resent them; it plays a mediator role between the recipients and actors o architecture.It serves as a public orum or citizens discussing matters concerning domestic spacesand public buildings as places or everyday lie and the city itsel, but at the same timereflects the problem-ocused architectural thinking that appears in the solution notonly o architectural tasks alone and makes it comprehensible or those who are not

amiliar with architecture.It was more than a hundred years ago that Hungarian architects mentioned the needor an independent museum o architecture. The creation o the new building o theHungarian Museum o Architecture will realize this idea and the new building willattain an emblematic role in the ul

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