The Hungarian Museum of Architecture and Monument Protection Documentation Center is an interdisciplinary institution created as the legal successor to the previous Hungarian historic preservation bodies. They operate as a historic preservation research center (performing historical research and geodesic surveys) and as a museum for Hungarian architecture. The Center serves the general public as well as architects, archaeologists, art historians, conservators and ethnographers.
Hungarian Museum of Architecture and Monument Protection Documentation Center
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Exhibition Knowledge infused with a decorative sensibility. The architecture of Albert Kálmán Kőrössy, in György Ráth Villa Budapest, 2019. ©Krisztina Bélavári/HMA MPDC
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Villa in the housing development for judges and public prosecutors in Budapest, designed by Aladár Árkay, 1912–1913 ©Pál Bíró/HMA MPDC
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Trotting Racecourse, Budapest, designed by Ferenc Paulheim, 1932–1933. ©Zoltán Seidner/HMA MPDC
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Design for an Apartment House in Pannónia Street in Budapest, designed by Gyula Rimanóczy, 1957–1958. ©HMA MPDC
Collection
Focus: national. Consists of: architectural drawings, both individual drawings and complete archives; documents/correspondence; models; building fragments; vintage and newly commissioned photographs; drawing instruments; slides; oral history archive; ephemera. Strengths: inter-war period drawings and photographs, mainly of Budapest; turn of the century drawings; growing number of archives from the 1940s and 1950s.Library Holdings
Holdings: turn of the century English, German, Austrian, Hungarian architectural periodicals; periodicals of the inter-war period. Current literature on the history of architecture.Other Members:
