Müpa Budapest

Performing arts and other facilities

• Bartók National Concert Hall is 25 m high, 25 m wide and 52 m long, providing a total capacity for 1,699 people. The concert hall features acoustics designed by Russell Johnson, who told the Wall Street Journal "in two or three years’ time, Hungarian musicians say this was the best concert hall in the world" The organ of the concert hall, inaugurated on 22 May 2006, has 92 stops and 5 manuals as well as 470 wooden pipes, 5028 tin pipes and 1214 reed pipes. The extensive intonation period of the organ lasted 10 months. It is one of the largest organs in Europe. A fully playable virtual version of this pipe organ named Palace of Arts Budapest Pipe Organ Samples was developed in 2008.
• Ludwig Museum This is a state of the art Contemporary Art Museum with paintings by;Picasso,David Hockney,Tom Wesselman,Richard Estesplus paintings by these Modern Hungarian Masters;Imre Bukta.Laszlo Feher,and Imre Bak.There are also creations by;Claes Oldenburg,Yoko Ono,and Markus Lupertz.
• Festival Theatre The Festival Theatre, in the Eastern third of the Palace of Arts building, seats 452 and also has the most modern technology.