New underground wing for Budapest's Museum of Fine Arts in Heroes' Square
The construction of a new, underground wing of the Museum of Fine Arts in Heroes’ Square will be one of the largest-scale cultural investments of the coming years. The museum's new Heroes’ Square Visitor and Tourist Centre with a floor space exceeding 8,000 sq m will turn the museum into a visitor-centric modern institution in line with 21st-century expectations. The objective of the investment of almost four billion forints (EURO 15million) financed by the European Union - and ready by 2011 according to plan - is not just to expand the museum but also to build one of the capital’s most important tourist centres in Heroes’ Square, which itself forms part of the World Heritage. In 2008 the museum and a jury found the plans in the design proposals competition by the Ybl prize-holder architect Tamás Karácsony to be the most suitable; thus, the new wing will be built in accordance with his

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