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The Museum of Fine Arts, a museum in Heroes' Square, Budapest, Hungary, facing the Palace of Art, was built by the plans of Albert Schickedanz and Fülöp Herzog in an eclectic-neoclassical style, between 1900 and 1906. The core of the Old Masters' Gallery collection is composed of the Esterházy Gallery, which, though its history goes back to the 17th century, gained its final form at the end of the 18th and in the first decades of the 19th century.
The gallery holds the second largest collection of Egyptian art in central Europe. The museum's collection is made up of international art, including all periods of European art, and comprises more than 100,000 pieces.
The Museum's collection is made up of six departments which are Egyptian, Antique, Old sculpture gallery, Old painter gallery, Modern collection, Graphics collection. The institution celebrated its centenary in 2006.
The collection shows selected rotating exhibitions of its collection of 10,000 drawings and 100,000 prints. All periods of European graphic art are richly represented. Two studies by Leonardo da Vinci for the 'Battle of Anghiari', 15 drawings by Rembrandt, and 200 pieces by Goya and French aquatints are the important pieces.
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