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2026.05.08. - 2026.08.30.
Budapest
2026.04.24. - 2026.09.20.
Budapest
2025.05.28. - 2025.09.28.
Budapest
2025.04.17. - 2025.05.17.
Budapest
2025.04.10. - 2025.05.11.
Szombathely
2025.04.07. - 2025.04.11.
Budapest
2025.03.28. - 2025.05.11.
Budapest
M80
2025.03.05. - 2025.09.15.
Budapest
2025.02.06. - 2025.05.11.
Budapest
2024.12.13. - 2025.06.30.
Budapest
2012.03.01. - 2012.03.31.
Vác
2012.02.01. - 2012.02.29.
Miskolc
2012.01.22. - 1970.01.01.
Budapest
2011.10.04. - 1970.01.01.
Nagykáta
2011.10.01. - 1970.01.01.
Nagykáta
2011.10.01. - 1970.01.01.
Nagykáta
2011.09.30. - 1970.01.01.
Nagykáta
2011.09.30. - 1970.01.01.
Nagykáta
2011.07.04. - 2011.07.08.
Budapest
Museum of Applied Arts - Budapest
Address: 1091, Budapest Üllői út 33-37.
Phone number: (1) 456-5100
Opening hours: A múzeum egész évben zárva tart.
The exhibition has closed for visitors.
2004.04.06. - 2004.08.15.
temporary exhibition
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The exhibition was organized for designers, laic visitors, and children since it draws attention to the importance of our every day lives, it tries to be present in our souls and environment all the time.
Tea Boxes
At the end of the 19th century advertisements and commercial packaging was born along with quantity production. Different materials were used to make boxes. The most typical of those were the tin, thin board, and paper. The material was chosen according to the characteristics of the product to be packed in order to save it from breaking and ensure its quality. Sometimes the luxurious and ordinary packaging was made of the same material.

The tin boxes were first created in the British Islands and South Wales. They were used at different areas, mainly when the preservation of flavor was needed: tobacco or sweets. The boxes made of wood were not always ornamented, sometimes only the letterhead was pressed on; in other cases they were wrapped with paper with lithography on. The pharmacy boxes are real curiosity, so are the paper boxes, and the Easter Eggs made of tin, wood, or hard paper. These could be opened, so they could be used as little egg shaped holders. Little toys or sweets were put in them, sometimes candy or dice as well.

The most luxurious products were the perfume bottles. Especially the French perfume manufacturers paid a lot of attention to put their product into nice packaging. The bottle had to be perfect, sparkling, its form, shape and color had to be worthy of the atmosphere enclosed in them.

Emil Gerbeaud brought taste with him; he discovered the cherry and the little chocolate drazés. He designed the special bon-bon boxes. The decor boxes distributed under the name of Kugler-Gerbeaud are varied according to their style and type. The wooden boxes of the company were exported to every part of the world.