Designs for massive Hungarian museum venture projected in Budapest

Plans submitted for the construction of new museums for a museum complex in the Hungarian capital are being displayed in central Budapest following the shortlisting of 17 proposed projects. The proposals were submitted to an open international design competition launched by the Liget Budapest project, one of Europe’s largest museum development initiatives. It set applicants the task of creating designs for five new museum buildings, the complete renewal of the green area of Budapest’s City Park and the renovation of the institutions currently located there.

The 17 designs are of the future House of Hungarian Music, the PhotoMuseum Budapest, the Museum of Hungarian Architecture and the Museum of Ethnography, and are currently being projected on the green park Erzsébet tér in a glass exhibition area.

The four finalists of the open competition were announced in December. After failing to find an adequate proposal for the fifth building among the 2014 entries, Liget Budapest has launched a new tender to close in April.

Construction of the £190 million development is scheduled to commence in 2016, with the museums scheduled to open in March 2018. The 17 design plans will be projected in Budapest until 24 January.