Gerbeaud filled Cat’s Tongue Selection contected to the Dress Code at the Gerbeaud Café – Budapest.
The collaboration between the Museum of Fine Arts and the Gerbeaud Café has reached a new stage: the number of artefacts linked to Gerbeaud continues to grow in the museum’s collection, and this took place on an exceptional occasion Downtown at Gerbeaud Café the early afternoon press conference.
For the 165th anniversary of the café, Gerbeaud’s pastry shop presented a new sweet with a special taste, the stuffed cat’s tongue, the complete packaging of which is included in the collection of the Museum of Applied Arts, preserving the jubilee dessert box for posterity. A cross-section of the museum’s Gerbeaud collection can still be viewed in the café, and the packaging for the stuffed cat’s tongue was placed in its display case.
At the press event, Anna Niszkács – managing director of Gerbeaud Gastronómia Ltd., and Zoltán Cselovszki – general director of the Museum of Applied Arts, reported on the details of the collaboration, and then art historian Zsuzsanna Lovay explained the additional Gerbeaud relics in the museum’s collection. Then they presented the newly published catalog of their highly successful exhibition Dress Code: Secession, edited by curator Noémi Csepregi.
Riport and snaps by Aggie Reiter
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