Our next exhibition, Bikology examines the relationship between biking, urban environment, and design. The exhibition, which is organized jointly by the Museum of Applied Arts and the Transport Museum, opens on 16 June 2016. The objects have arrived at our museum and soon they will be placed in the exhibition area.

Most of the objects, selected by the design management team of Kultúrgorilla, are not from the collection of our museum. The exhibition brings us the latest bicycle design innovations from twelve countries. The historical objects are from the currently closed Transport Museum, while the contemporary pieces come from local and international workshops from the Netherlands, Austria, Germany, Denmark, Great Britain, the United States, Sweden, Italy, Belgium, Australia, and Spain.

A few special pieces were unpacked last Thursday in the presence of the press: for example the chandelier called Racing Ball from the Viennese Gabarage Studio which is made of thrown-out tyres, or the so far biggest chandelier of the Dutch Lolo Palazzo, called Drama Queen, which is built from bicycle chains and weighs 150 kilos. János Hidvégi, museologist, presented a few pieces coming from the bicycle collection of the Transport Museum, which counts more than a hundred objects. As he said, the design of the bicycle has changed a lot since its invention, however the current form of the bike has been developed by the 1890s. Based on the license of the Austrian factory Puch, large-scale bicycle manufacturing in Hungary was started in 1929 by the Weiss Manfréd Works in Csepel. The unique cargo bike, which was built from water tubes by its owner, a plumber, was also constructed in the 1930s, while the Csepel Luxus bike with its Dongo servomotor evokes the 1950s.

The exhibition will be open for the public from 17 June to 27 November 2016.