A selection of the early sources in the collection of MÉM-MDK on protected buildings and monuments
 
Text: Zsófia Kádár, Gergely Kovács

After almost 50 years, the collection of the office for protected buildings had to be moved out from No, 1. Táncsics Mihály Street, which was rebuilt in 1971 to function as the headquarters of the National Hungarian Authority for the Protection of Historic Buildings in the Castle District. The stock of the archives was packed up in the summer of 2016 and was made available to research once again in December 2019 in a changed institutional framework and on new premises. The Hungarian Architectural Museum and the Documentation Centre of the Protection of Historic Buildings wished to draw attention to the „restoration” which may be interpreted as a minor era limit and also to the irreplaceable significance of the complex outstanding from both the viewpoints of science and culture history.