The museum welcomed its 500,000th visitor of the year on Tuesday, museum director László Baán said. The lucky visitor won tickets to the museum?s ?Van Gogh in Budapest? exhibition, to open on December 1, and a trip to Amsterdam.
Since the fall of communism in 1989, the Museum of Fine Arts has attracted about 300,000 visitors a year. But, in 2004, when the museum put on the spectacularly popular ?Monet and his Friends? exhibition, it drew an annual 500,000 visitors.
Having already passed this mark, the museum expects to attract as many as 600,000 visitors by year-end, especially with the opening of the Van Gogh exhibition. Other big draws this year have included exhibitions such as ?El Greco, Velázquez, Goya ? Five Centuries of Spanish Painting?, ?Rembrandt 400? and the ?Geniuses and Masterworks? series, of which Caravaggio?s painting ?David with the Head of Goliath? was the latest centrepiece.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
