One of three closely related collections. Its first objects were added in the 1950s and the collection, together with household utensils and recent furniture, spans the domestic material culture of the second half of the 20th century. It is also closely linked to the Collection of Unique Objects, which includes glass and ceramic memorabilia from the representative legacies of social movements, political ideologies or emblematic personalities. The vast majority of the objects, however, are accurate reflections of the modernisation of the country, when society underwent a huge change: many people moved to new homes and broke with old, traditional ways of life, and many replaced articles inherited from grandparents with new, modern, contemporary ones. The museum collection keeps track of this shift in lifestyle.
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Biedermeier desk from the 19th century. It came to the collection from the editorial office of Népszava daily in the mid-20th century.
Custom-made chest of drawers with trade union crests. Given as a gift to Mátyás Rákosi in 1952. It only came to the collection in the late 1970s from the Török Pál utca Cultural Centre.
Old German (altdeutsch) sofa from the late 19th century. It arrived at the museum as part of a complete set of house furnishings in the late 1970s.
Until the 1970s, inheritance of the workers' organisations and community centres were methodically collected the Collection of Contemporary Furniture and Furnishings.
A series of cabinets, produced by the Budapest Furniture Company under the fancy name "Csillag" (star) from 1968. Relics of socialist modernisation were added to the collection from the late 1990s.
Neo-baroque dining set from the first half of the 20th century. The large furniture ensembles that were once considered representative and elegant often found their way into museum collections owing to changing lifestyles, mobility and housing conditions.
