The Oil Industry Museum, which currently shows the 70-year history of oil drilling and coal mining in an open-air exhibition space, plans to spend HUF 1.9bn of the Norwegian funding to build a space which will house the geothermal museum as well as its own exhibits, Tóth said. The museum will cover the HUF 150m cost of moving its collection from its current location to a site three kilometres away with money from sponsors and regional grants.
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The new museum will have more than 5,000 square metres of space on two floors. It will be powered, naturally, by geothermal energy.
If the Oil Industry Museum's application for funding is accepted, construction of the new museum could start as soon as the beginning of 2009 and be completed by the autumn of 2011.
Source: Múlt-kor / Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
