{"id":400673,"date":"2001-11-14T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-11-14T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exindex.hu\/?p=400673"},"modified":"2023-03-17T11:14:19","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T10:14:19","slug":"informaciofoszlanyok-a-modern-magyar-muveszeti-muzeum-epiteserol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exindex.hu\/en\/tema\/informaciofoszlanyok-a-modern-magyar-muveszeti-muzeum-epiteserol\/","title":{"rendered":"Information fragments on building the Museum of Modern Hungarian Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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1st supposition<\/b>
\r\nIn 1999 (or maybe at the beginning of the year 2000) the Minister of National\r\nCultural Heritage (?) had an idea that the country needs a Museum of Contemporary\/Modern\r\nHungarian Arts, but as there was no money for it (the amount appropriated\r\nfor museum building in the budget of 2001-2002, HUF 6.5 billion was spent\r\non the technical facility established on the Ganz area), the idea remained\r\nan idea.<\/p>\r\n

1st fact<\/b>
\r\nBefore announcing the results of the architectural tender invited in connection\r\nwith the National Theatre the government had made an agreement with Dunapark\r\nS\u00e9t\u00e1ny Ingatlanfejleszt\u0151 Kft. (Danube Bank Promenade\r\nProperty Development Ltd. – DSI), founded by TriGr\u00e1nit Rt. hallmarked\r\nwith the name of S\u00e1ndor Demj\u00e1n on building the theatre,\r\npreviously determining the cost of the construction. At the same time\r\nthe government sold the 6 remaining former Expo plots to DSI for HUF 2\r\nbillion. According to certain plans there is a natural connection between\r\nthe rather low construction cost undertaken in connection with building\r\nthe theatre and the low price requested for the plots.<\/p>\r\n

2nd fact<\/b>
\r\nDSI commissioned an architectural company called Finta & Tsi to prepare\r\na building development concept with respect to the whole area (in spring\r\n2000). They prepared the concept by the summer of 2000, and according\r\nto this on the plot, which is the closest to the L\u00e1gym\u00e1nyosi\r\nBridge a 140 square metre multifunctional building would be constructed.\r\n(In the building they were planning to build a hotel, car park, conference\r\ncentre, office block (…) and a 7 thousand square metre building part\r\n"for museum functions".)<\/p>\r\n

2nd supposition<\/b>
\r\nIt might have happened at this point that the Minister”s (?) "old"\r\nidea was brought into the foreground again to build the Museum of Contemporary\r\nModern Hungarian Arts here. There were two problems: one of them was that\r\nthe builder wanted to find a function for the building, which could significantly\r\nincrease the number of visitors, but today there are not many Hungarian\r\nmuseums which could fulfil this condition. An exhibition area "spiced"\r\nwith an auction hall and galleries was much closer to what they had imagined.\r\nHowever, state sources could not really be used for this purpose. The\r\nother problem was the shortness of the investment time. According to the\r\noriginal plans they should have started the construction of the building\r\nin April 2001 and it should have been finished by autumn 2002.<\/p>\r\n

3rd fact<\/b>
\r\nAfter the two parties had found each other, they soon made up their minds,\r\nand in autumn 2000 the Minister signed a declaration of intent according\r\nto which DSI would construct the building with the museum in it, the costs\r\nof which (HUF 2.1 billion) would be paid back by the state to the investor\r\nwithin a period of ten years. The suspicion arose that in this case again,\r\nsimilarly to the construction of the National Theatre, they had got round\r\npublic acquisition. (They asked the profession”s opinion through the directors\r\nof two museums, which presently have contemporary collections, whether\r\nan institution of this character was needed at all in Budapest, but no\r\nfurther professional discussions took place.)<\/p>\r\n

4th fact<\/b>
\r\nInstead of real professional discussions the Ministry (!) commissioned\r\na company called ccc + bogner, which had organised the moving of the Holy\r\nCrown, to prepare the technological plans of the museum to be built. It\r\nwas interesting that ccc + bogner started to prepare the technological\r\nplans without having the detailed material of the museum”s concept, as\r\nit still does not exist. For ccc + bogner the deadline of handing in the\r\nplans was 15th December 2000.<\/p>\r\n

5th fact<\/b>
\r\nIn the meantime the investor asked for applications from 7 architects\r\nto plan the building. They handed in their applications in November 2000,\r\nand a decision was also made.<\/p>\r\n

6th fact<\/b>
\r\nOn P\u00e9ter Fitz”s initiative the long-awaited meeting between the\r\nrepresentatives of the profession, the Ministry and ccc + bogner was organised\r\non 30th November 2000. According to the ministry”s representative the\r\ntime had come to create the professional concept. However, he could not\r\nanswer the question why it was due only after the technological and architectural\r\nplans had been prepared, or what sort of concept the finished plans had\r\nbeen based on. According to the representatives of ccc + bogner the most\r\nimportant purpose of the institution to be established was to attract\r\nas many visitors as possible. No further details could be made clear about\r\nthe collection or the activity of the museum to be built. What the primary\r\nrole of the new institute would be was also not clarified – would it have\r\nthe function of a museum, gallery, auction hall or a house of traditions?\r\nG\u00e1bor Zoboki, architect, who won the tender later on, was also\r\npresent at the meeting.<\/p>\r\n

7th fact<\/b>
\r\nAccording to\r\nthe decisive majority of the representatives of the profession, under\r\nsuch circumstances there is no need for this museum. They would rather\r\nhave a really good Museum of Contemporary and\/or Modern Hungarian Arts\r\nbuilt in ten years on the basis of a well prepared concept, than have\r\none built now, when everything is against it: the inadequately short time\r\nfor preparing a real concept, the area created inside a multifunctional\r\noffice-car park-hotel-conference centre and the 7 thousand square metre\r\nunsuitable size for a museum with a collection.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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