New Museum of Ethnography Inaugurated

The new building of the Museum of Ethnography, which was built in the framework of the Liget Budapest project at the gateway to the City Park, was inaugurated on Sunday afternoon. It opens to visitors on Monday with temporary and permanent exhibitions.

The project's Ministerial Commissioner, László Baán was of the view that the Liget Budapest project is a historic undertaking, not only in the last hundred years of Hungary, but also in Europe, as it is the largest complex cultural development project of its kind. He praised the genius of Marcel Ferencz, who designed the building, and thanked Prime Minister Viktor Orbán for his personal support in opening the museum.

The Director General of the Museum of Ethnography, Lajos Kemecsi, recalled that for the first time in the 150-year history of the institution, the collection is now receiving a tailor-made home as a result of a "project that has been an unprecedented success in the field of Hungarian museums," the state news agency MTI reports.

Although, Budapest mayor Gergely Karácsony had also been invited to the opening, he boycotted the event for the government not willing to take into consideration the opinion of the city council in the development of the City Park despite PM Orbán having said so.