Müpa Budapest

Müpa Budapest Location within Budapest
Former names	Palace of Arts (Művészetek Palotája)
Address	1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell u. 1.
Location	Budapest,Hungary
Coordinates	47°28′10″N19°4′18″E / 47.46944°N 19.07167°E /47.46944; 19.07167
Public transit	H6, H7 suburban railway
Type	Performing arts center,Museum
Construction
Built	2002–2005
Opened	14 March 2005 (2005-03-14)
Architect	Zoboki, Demeter és Társaik Építésziroda
General contractor	Trigránit, Arcadom Építőipari Zrt.
Tenants
Müpa Budapest Nonprofit Kft., Ludwig Museum
Website
www.mupa.hu/en

Müpa Budapest (between 2005 and 2015Palace of Arts^[1] –Művészetek Palotája inHungarian[ˈmyːveːsɛtɛkˈpɒlotaːjɒ]) is a building inFerencváros,Budapest, Hungary, officially opened in March 2005. It is located nearRákóczi Bridge and was designed by Zoboky, Demeter and Partners Architectural Office. TheNational Theatre, which opened in 2002, is located next to it.

Both Müpa Budapest and the National Theatre are part of the new Millennium City Center being created in Budapest.^[2]

The structure ofMüpa Budapest covers a ground area of 10,000 m² and the total floor space of the building is 70,000 m². It received thePrix d’Excellence ofFIABCI in 2006.^[3][4]

The general manager isCsaba Kael.^[5]

• Bartók National Concert Hall is 25 m high, 25 m wide and 52 m long, providing a total capacity for 1,699 people. The concert hall features acoustics designed byRussell Johnson, who told theWall Street Journal "in two or three years’ time, Hungarian musicians (will) say this was the best concert hall in the world"^[6] Theorgan of the concert hall, inaugurated on 22 May 2006,^[7] has 92stops and 5manuals as well as 470 woodenpipes, 5028 tin pipes and 1214reed pipes. The extensive intonation period of the organ lasted 10 months. It is one of the largest organs in Europe. A fully playable virtual version of this pipe organ was developed for use withHauptwerk in 2008.^[8]
• Ludwig Museum This is a state of the art Contemporary Art Museum with paintings by Picasso ("Musketeer with Sword"), David Hockney, Tom Wesselman, Richard Estes ("Rappaport Pharmacy") plus paintings by these modern Hungarian masters; Imre Bukta ("Officers at Pig Feast"), Laszlo Feher, and Imre Bak. There are also creations by Claes Oldenburg ("Lingerie Counter"), Yoko Ono, and Markus Lüpertz.
• Festival Theatre The Festival Theatre, in the Eastern third of the Palace of Arts building, seats 452 and also has the most modern technology.

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