The list of the finalists of a new architectural competition for the design of a new Ethnographic Museum in Budapest, Hungary, has been announced today.

The competition, organized by Városliget Zrt., is aimed to create a new home for the Hungarian Museum of Ethnography, the most important institutions of this kind in Hungary, established in 1872.

The organizer has selected 15 architectural offices, after a pre-qualification stage.

The new museum will be located in the Ötvenhatosok Square and is scheduled for opening in 2019. The design competition winner will be announced in May 2016.

The 15 architectural offices selected are:

Zaha Hadid Architects (London)

Gmp Architekten (Hamburg)

Architecture Studio (Paris)

MVRDV (Rotterdam)

BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group (Copenhagen/New York)

Bernard Tschumi Architects (Paris/New York)

Dominique Perrault Architecture (Paris)

Sauerbruch Hutton (Berlin)

Coop Himmelb(l)au Architects (Vienna)

Emre Arolat Architects (London)

OMA – Rem Koolhaas (Rotterdam)

Közti Zrt (Budapest)

Balázs Mihály and the BUTE Faculty of Architecture (Budapest)

Napur Architect (Budapest)

Bánáti + Hartvig Architects (Budapest)

The Museum of Confluences in Lyon by CoopHimmelb(l)au, photo Quentin Lafont

The MMM Corones museum by Zaha Hadid Architects, photo Inexhibit

The Danish Maritime Museum by BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group, Image by Rasmus Hjortshoj

The Acropolis Museum in Athens by Bernard Tschumi, Photo Nikos Daniilidis