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=Museum= The Hungarian Museum of Commerce and Tourism (Magyar Kereskedelmi és Vendéglátóipari Múzeum), has a unique collection of objects from all over Hungary on the history of commerce and catering (or hospitality). The Museum is located in Óbuda in a building in which the Hungarian author Gyula Krúdy lived for the last three years of his life. The museum has a new permanent exhibition on the development of Hungarian commerce, particularly retailing, over the past 200 years. The exhibits include reconstructions of old shop windows and an apothecary. In 2014, the museum opened a new section that includes recreations of a Stühmer sweetshop, a stationary store, and an ironmongery. This section also includes exhibits on the great department stores of Budapest, and on retailing during the Socialist period of Hungarian history. Because the museum is located in Gyula Krúdy's last dwelling place, the museum has created an exhibit that recounts the lodgings in which he lived from 1896 to 1933, lodgings that ranged from rented rooms, hotel rooms (both mean and elegant), and bourgeois homes. A related exhibit recreates a restaurant and focuses on their role in his life and work.

In addition to these permanent exhibits, the museum has an exhibit of old enamel advertising signs promoting food, drink, tobacco, and other products.

The museum has a study collection of some 17 thematically-organized showcases of rare or no longer current objects from the worlds of commerce, tourism, and hospitality. It also has a library on these topics that is available for scholarly research. (Authors have drawn on the library and the collections on Hungarian cuisine, the history of Hungary's love of soda-water, and the like.)

The museum is the site of lectures on aspects of its areas of interests, with special programs for children and school groups. Lastly, the museum is often a venue for cultural events.

Website: www.mkvm.hu

History
The museum was originally established in 1966 and located on Buda Castle Hill on Fortuna Street, in the building of the former Fortuna Inn, until 2005. In 2006, the museum relocated to a building designed by Béla Lajta that had formerly housed MKB Bank (Magyar Külkereskedelmi Bank; Hungarian Foreign Trade Bank). Since 2013 the bank has been located in Obuda.

Predecessor institution
[Category:National museums of Hungary]] [Category:Museums in Budapest]] [Category:History museums in Hungary]]

Unusually, for the time, the apartment block faces south, towards the garden at the rear of the house rather than towards the street.

Citations and references

 * Citations


 * References
 * Heathcote, Edwin (1997) Budapest: a guide to twentieth-century architecture. (London:Ellipsis); ISBN 1899858296 pp.234-235.

The history of the Hoffman Jozsef company Hoffman Jozsef, the founder of Hoffman Jozsef Budapest colonial goods and spices trading firm, was born on 13th December, 1773 in Vac. His parents were Hoffman Janos and Hentzpauer Magdalena. Jozsef had started to learn about trading in Buda, when he was 16 years old, at Pisztory Lajos, where he was staying for four years. He was freed on the first of September 1793(it was called “freeing ” a student when his master couldn’t teach him more), and got his ceremonial Lehrbrief(German for old style diploma). He went to Lessar and Wallis to Debrecen when he was 20 years old. He was an assistant worker until 1797, when he came back to Pest and started to workin the wholesale of  Crettier Jakab, called Aranyszarvas(Golden stag) which was located on today’s Szervita(a monastic order) Square. After he applied for a position in A.P. Weszelofszky’s company, where he became a partner. In 1803 upon the liquidation of the firm he bought everything. Bernharnd von Reindl, an Austrian salesman became his business partner, and established the Hoffman and Reindl company. In 1803 Hoffman petitioned the Council of the Noble City of Pest for a wholesaler’s permit. In his petition he proved that he studied his trade throughly, he has a working firm, and has enough capital to lead such an endavour. The petition was checked by the comissar of the merchants, named Ebenhocht Antal, who by the way, was a native of Vac too. He sent his approving report, and, for the Private Commercial Syndicate of Pest didn’t raise any obstacles, the Council gave its permission on 11th June of 1804. This is the date when the company was officially established. Hoffman Jozsef was 31 at the time. The company’s premises from the establishment until 1875, so more than 70 years were in the Maroccan Yard, which was owned by the grof(earl?) Festetich family. The company had a “stonetent ” in Debrecen, in the Becsi street, which was filled up with goods four times a year at the time of the famous Debrecen fair. In 1817, after his father’s death Hoffman Jozsef payed out his partner Bernhard von Reindl, after the company changed its name to Hoffman Jozsef’s. Jozsef was married in 1821. His wife Hocker Anna was born in 1791. She was an offspring of a Pest merchant family. She was a very stern, strict woman. Their only son Frigyes, was born on 15th October 1824. He was only ten years old when he lost his father, on 26th of July 1834. Jozsef in his testament ordered that his son to be trained as a merchant, ‘till the time comes when he can lead the company all by himself. The business was ran by the widow, Mr. SatoryJanos Gyorgy, and Mr. Bisenti Vilmos. Hoffman Frigyes went to elementary school in Pest and Tata to the Piarists(another monastic order). After that he went to Vienna, where he successfully completed the Normal-Hauptschule. After his studies he worked at F.Matthes and Beck. He was freed in 1840. He came back to Pest, and worked in his father’s business as an assistant until 1846. About his work the company’s curator Bisenti Vilmos signed a certificate. To further his studies he went to A. Bruckner in Triest, which was the most important port in the Hungarian business life. He was called back after one year of work to his mother’s funeral. He was 23. The widow of Hoffman Jozsef lead the business for 13 years with great talent until her death on 13th August of 1847. In her testament she recommended to her son to take a business partner, because he was still too young. Frigyes did so. He made a contract for five years with his brother in law, Tschogl Janos, who was the husband of the second daughter of Hoffman Janos, Emma. Janos is 32 years old at this time, and he had been in the business for eleven years. He inherited it in 1836 from his father the Tschogl Gaspar company “addressed to Fortuna”, which was on the Halter, today’s Belvaros Square. The company’s main activity was the wholesale of drugs, and herbs. Hoffman Frigyes and Tschogl Gaspar united their firms under the name Hoffman Jozsef and Tschogl. In 1853 when the contract was over Tschogl Janos sold his share. This later became the base of the Thallmayer and Seitz company. Janos bought an estate on Nagysaro, in hope that the country life will be good for his ill wife. Unfortunetly, this hope wasn’t fulfilled, and Tschogl Janos with his wife Emma, and his three sons, Gusztav, Henrik, and Vilmos moved to Vienna. Emma died from breast cancer in Budapest 1881.