The Hungarian pavilion of this year's Venice Architecture Biennale presents the multiple award-winning building of the Museum of Ethnography, which can be visited from Saturday at the 18th international exhibition, Városliget Zrt announced today.

The multiple award-winning building of the Ethnographic Museum and the Liget Budapest project that implemented it were presented on Thursday at the professional opening of one of the world's most prestigious cultural events, the Venice Architecture Biennale, in front of professionals from all over the world - read the information sent to MTI.

The Hungarian exhibition Reziduum – The Frequency of Architecture, open until November 26, is a sound, space and light installation that attempts to present the manifestations of cultural memory through various cultural layers: from objects of use from the past to the new building and its urban context to contemporary music, the announcement states.

The information sheet quotes Benedek Gyorgyevics, CEO of Városliget Zrt., who says that the Ethnographic Museum is one of the most modern museum buildings in Europe, its exhibition and public spaces, gradually opening exhibitions and special technical solutions are world-class. "One of the most important results of the multifaceted Hungarian innovation, which we can now proudly present at one of the most important international meeting places of the architectural community, the Venice Biennale," emphasized the CEO of Városliget Zrt.

The information reminds us that the 2016 invitational international tender for the design of the building created as part of the Liget Budapest project was won by NAPUR Architect led by Ferencz Marcel. After the announcement of the results, the building attracted the attention of the international architecture and real estate industry, and the trade press followed its realization as one of the most exciting new contemporary museum buildings on the continent, they wrote in the announcement.

The building has received several prestigious international recognitions: at the International Property Awards in London, it was already chosen as the best public building in the world based on its plans, and was also awarded the Best Architecture main prize. It was recognized as the best project of 2022 by the Archello architecture magazine, it proved to be the best in the cultural architecture category at the Swiss BLT Design Awards and at the prestigious Chinese IDEA-TOPS competition, and it also received special recognition from the jury at the German Design Awards.

According to the information, in addition to the Museum of Ethnography, the Hungarian pavilion of the Venice Architecture Biennale will present the results of the 10-year-old Liget Budapest Project so far, as well as the elements that will be realized in the near future, including the planned building of the New National Gallery, for example, along with a model of the City Park, using videos and digital information.

The Liget Project is an internationally outstanding example of the living preservation of our cultural heritage and its diverse presentation in the language of the 21st century - quotes László Baán, ministerial commissioner of the Liget Budapest Project, who says that the renovation of the City Park is currently Europe's largest urban development project with cultural content, thanks to which the The country has been enriched by cultural investments on a scale not seen since the millennium.

László Baán drew attention to the fact that the project already has significant results, but the biggest and most important development, the construction of the New National Gallery designed by the Priztker Prize-winning Japanese architecture office SANAA, is still to be done. This new museum can contribute to putting the renewed City Park on the cultural map of Europe, added the government commissioner.

"Any newly planned cultural district will only have an international reputation and rank if it has at least one contemporary-built, high-quality art museum," László Baán pointed out, emphasizing that if the international economic conditions normalize, then in 2024-25 the Construction of a new National Gallery.

Source: MTI

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