Lapidarium opened in Parliament’s ventilation tunnel

Parliament Lapidarium was opened in the ventilation tunnel on Kossuth Square’s north side. It shows the façade pieces and the history of the square to the visitors, travelo.hu wrote.

Two-thirds of the more than half a million paving stones placed on the Parliament, which was built of 40 million bricks, was replaced since the handover of the building – MTI quoted the Speaker of the National Assembly on Monday’s opening.

According to Laszlo Kover, one of the reasons to create the Lapidarium was to show artworks to the public, they wanted to pay tribute to the former masters as well as to find a function to the north ventilation tunnel. Hopefully, the recently opened Lapidarium will also increase the attractiveness of Kossuth Square – the House Speaker said.

Geza Buzinkay drew attention to the photo exhibition presenting the history of Kossuth Square in the Lapidarium. One of the contemporary photos shows the square is filled with paving stones waiting for insertion; one of these plans survived. Tamas Wachsler, leader of renovating Imre Steindl Program told MTI that more than eighty facasde stone, metal and ceramic elements were selected to the Lapidarium. These decorations have been visible from a distance so far, but now the audience can see them closer, travelo.hu wrote.