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Museum of Applied Arts (Budapest)

Museum in Budapest, Hungary

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
Places and architectureInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 18, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

The Museum of Applied Arts is a museum in Budapest, Hungary. It is the third-oldest applied arts museum in the world. It was established by the Hungarian Parliament in 1872 to collect applied artworks, historical and contemporary, from Hungary and around the world.

Editorial summary

“Museum of Applied Arts (Budapest)” enters the record as museum in Budapest, Hungary. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Museum, Applied and Arts can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1872—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Museum, Applied and Arts.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Museum of Applied Arts (Budapest)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Museum, Applied and Arts provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 18, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1872.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Museum of Applied Arts (Budapest)”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Museum of Applied Arts (Budapest) primary sources, Museum of Applied Arts (Budapest) archive and Museum research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Museum of Applied Arts (Budapest)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.