Images from the history of the Museum of Applied Arts

Thematic Collections

The Archives of Museum of Applied Arts hold a number of photographs of prominent personalities, exhibitions and other events from the history of the Museum, established in 1872. The present virtual exhibition features a selection of these photographs, providing an overview of the nearly one-and-a-half-century long history of the museum.

Portrait photograph - Ferenc Pulszky (1814-1897), director general of the Hungarian National Museum from 1869 to 1894
Portrait photograph - Károly Pulszky (1853-1899), the first curator of the Museum of Applied Arts (from 1873 to 1881)
Portrait photograph - György Ráth (1828-1905), the first director of the Museum of Applied Arts (from 1881 to 1896)
Caricature - on the goldsmith's exhibition of 1884 (wit the portraits of Ferenc Pulszky and Arnold Ipolyi)
Exhibition photograph - Gothic chalices at the goldsmith's exhibition of 1884
Exhibition photograph - Indian exhibition in the Sugár (now Andrássy) Road building of the Museum of Applied Arts in 1885
Exhibition photograph - he so-called Damascus Room in the Sugár (now Andrássy) Road Building of the Museum of Applied Arts in 1885
Portrait photograph - Jenő Radisics (1856-1917), the second director of the Museum of Applied Arts (from 1897 to 1917)
Photograph - Jenő Radisics (1856-1917), director of the Museum of Applied Arts at his writing desk in his office
Photograph - Jenő Radisics at work in the salon in the Pálffy Castle in Királyfa, in the hall of Pompei
Architectural photograph - constructing the Üllői street wing of the Museum of Applied Arts
Architectural photograph - constructing the Hőgyes street wing, Museum of Applied Arts - in the foreground the architects Ödön Lechner and Gyula Pártos
Architectural photograph - constructing the Museum of Applied Arts
Architectural photograph - main facade of the Museum of Applied Arts
Interior photograph - the glass roof structure of the Great Hall of the Museum of Applied Arts at the end of the construction work
Architectural photograph - entrance of the Museum of Applied Arts at the inauguration ceremony on October 25th, 1896
Interior photograph - vestibul on the day of the inauguration ceremony, Museum of Applied Arts
Interior photograph - the bust of King Franz Joseph I in the National Museum and School of Hungarian Applied Arts at the inauguration ceremony on October 25, 1896