City of Lights. Artificial lighting and the craftsmanship of
July 10 - September 29 | Urban society became a society of artificial light during the 19th century. With evolving means of lighting, humans gradually and ever more effectively took control of the night.
The ensemble of the former baroque monastery and church housing the Kiscell Museum is on the hillside above Margaret Hospital in Óbuda. The Trinitarian order having been suppressed in 1784, the ensemble was also used as military barracks and military hospital before it was purchased by the Vienna-based art collector and furniture manufacturer Max Schmidt in 1910, who turned it into a luxurious mansion.
