Construction could start in 2011 and the extension open the following year, museum director Tamas Baan announced at a press conference on Wednesday. A total of 8,000m2 additional exhibition floor space will be made with the Ft 4 billion investment.

The original plan of architect Tamas Karacsony received public criticism. Now it has been altered to preserve the original staircase, and not cut a gate into it, while the tower erected on Heroes’ Square in front of the museum will be transparent."

Source: Hungary Around the Clock.

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