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Ady Endre Memorial Museum

The address: Veres Pálné utca 4-6, Metro: M3 Ferenciek tere, Bus 15, Tram 2.
Endre Ady (1877-1919) is a Hungarian poet of world rank. The interior of this memorial museum, set up in his last apartment, recalls the home furnished and equipped by the poet and his wife.

Aquincum Museum

The address: Szentendrei út 139, HÉV Aquincum.
Web site: www.aquincum.hu 
aqunicumIn the museum remains of the Civil town of the 2000-year-old Aquincum, stone monuments and Roman archaeological finds can be seen, including the reconstruction of the world-famous hydra (water-organ). 
In this small museum (the affiliation of the Aquincum Museum) remains and the splendid mosaics of a Roman urban villa can be seen. Free entry.

Fire Brigade Museum

The address: Martinovics Ignácz tér 12, Bus 9, 32, 62, Tram 13, 28.
The Budapest Fire Brigade Museum (Tuzoltó Múzeum) contains not only documents about the history of the fire brigade but also a collection of rare historic fire-fighting equipment.

Hopp Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts

The address: Andrássy út 103, Metro: M1 Bajza utca metro station.
Art of the Chinese buddhism, 10th - 19th century.
More than 20000 works of art are on view. Sculptures, paintings, devotional objects.

Kiscelli Castle Museum

The address: Kiscelli utca 108, Bus 60, 165, Tram 17.
Web site: www.btmfk.iif.hu
This section of the Kiscelli Castle building cluster was constructed in 1702, it consists of a large Baroque style vicarage and the Church Hall. Nowadays the Church Hall serves as a location for exhibitions and other programs. Just the original walls remain and the raw brick parapets create an outstanding atmosphere. Exclusive and elegant gala dinners for up to 250 persons can be organized at this very special venue.

Hungarian National Museum

The address: Múzeum körút 14-16, Metro: M2 Astoria/M3 Kálvin tér, Tram 47-49.
Web site: www.hnm.hu 
nationalHNM is a history museum, collecting all the Hungary related historical relics. It was founded in 1802, when Count Ferenc Szechenyi asked Franz I., then emperor, to grant his huge Hungary related collection to the nation. Then it was decided that a new building should be elevated to be a National Museum. The construction lasted from 1837 until 1847. The building is covering almost 8000m2 and stands in the middle of a nice courtyard. The facade you "usually see" from the building is a Roman stlye portico with 8 columns. In the middle of the tympanum above the columns you can see Pannonia. Inside the staircases show the frescos of Karoly Lotz and Mor Than. The Museum, besides conserving history, also made history in the past: it was a gathering place for the starting event of the revolution in 1848-49, on the 15th of March in 1848 Sandor Petofi, famous Hungarian poet recited here the "National Song". That is why every year on this date the center of the festivities is the garden of the Museum.

Museum of Applied Arts

The address: Üllõi út 33-37, Metro: M3 Ferenc körút, Trams 4, 6.
Web site: www.imm.hu
appiledThis beautiful building was designed by Odön Lechner and completed in 1896. Exibitions: Textiles, Eastern carpets, French silks, needleworks, laces, medieval chasuble. Ceramics: Old porcelains from Herend and from world-famous ceramic guilds. Furnitures: Signed French furnitures from the 18th century, valuable, old musical instruments. Goldsmith works: Gold, silver, bronze, copper, metal works, including Renaissasnce and Baroque silver works of art, masterpieces of the Esterha'zy-treasury...

Museum of Music History

musicThe address: Táncsics Mihály utca 7, Bus 16.
The museum is in the Baroque surroundings of the Erdõdy Palace, showing hungarian musical instrument manufacturing in 18th - 20th century, musical life in 18th - 20th century and Hungarian folk instruments.

Statue Park (Szoborpark)

The address: Balatoni út, Bus 50.
Web site: www.szoborpark.hu
statueA unique experience awaits visitors to this open-air museum. On display are some of the gargantuan statues and political monuments removed from public display in the streets and squares of Budapest following the fall of Communism.

Tomb of Gül Baba

The address: Mecset utca 14, Bus 91.
Web site: www.btm.hu/Turbe/turbe.htm

turbeBurial chapel of the muslim dervish and member of the Bektashi order who died in 1541 following the capture of Buda. Built between 1543 and 1548, the octagonal building.

 


 

 

Agriculture Museum

The address: Vajdahunyad Castle, Metro: M1 Széchenyi fürdõ.
Located in part of the Vajdahunyad Castle in Varis liget. The present volume is an introduction to the agrarian history of Hungary from the mid-nineteenth century until the present day, in which renowned economic historians discuss both the successes and failures of Hungarian agriculture. The past 150 years is only a brief period in historical terms, but reading this book and looking at the illustrations can still give one a sense of being a participant in, and witness to, the life-changing events of successive generations.

Ethnographical Museum

The address: Kossuth tér 12, Metro: M2 Kossuth tér, Bus 15, Tram 2.
Web site: www.neprajz.hu
A view of the building in which this museum is housed makes a visit more than worthwhile: it is an architectural masterpiece - both inside and out. The Grand Entrance Hall will take your breath away with its arches, columns and staircases, all decorated with copious amounts of gold. The exhibits themselves provide an interesting and educational overview of the Hungarian people: regional folk costumes can be seen, as well as depictions of daily life in the last century.

Historical Museum of Budapest

The address: Budavári Palota E Épület, Várbusz, Bus 16.
Web site: www.btm.hu
The museums is in the Royal Palace and Budapest. Contein masterpieces of the court art in the Middle Ages in Buda and famous gothic sculptures discovered in 1974. Budapest in the Middle Ages Intresting models, computer programmes and reconstructions show the history and development of Buda, Pest and O'buda from the 5th century to the 17th century, based on the newest results of scientific researches. Archeological exavations in Budapest The most significant findings of exavations in Budapest from the prehistoric ages to the 4th century.

Jewish Museum

The address: Dohány utca 2, Metro: M1, M2, M3 Deák tér, Bus 7, 7A, 78, Tram 47, 49.
jewishHoused in a wing of the Central Synagogue (the second largest in the world) Budapest's Jewish Museum was built on the site where Theodor Herzl, the famous Zionist leader and novelist was born. It is only open between May and October because of heating problems in the winter. It houses thousands of documents and photos of Hungarian Jewish life, as well as Judaica and a section on the Holocaust. One of its interesting exhibits is a Jewish tombstone dating back to the 3rd century from the town of Esztergom.

Hungarian Natural History Museum

The address: Ludovika tér 2, Metro: M3 Klinikák.
Web site: www.nhmus.hu
The Hungarian Natural History Museum is the largest natural history museum in Hungary. The museum's permanent exhibition covers the geographical history of the Carparthian basin, while also looking at man's development in the region through the ages.

Museum of Fine Arts

The address: Hõsök tere, Metro: M1 Hõsök tere.
Web site: www.szepmuveszeti.hu
fineartThe largest fine arts museum of Hungary. The core of the Old Masters' Gallery collection is composed of the Esterházy Gallery, which, though its history goes back to the 17th century, gained its final form at the end of the 18th and in the first decades of the 19th century. The 637 painting transported from Vienna to Pest in 1865 were purchased by the Hungarian State in 1871 and thus the National Picture Gallery, housed in the edifice of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences was founded.

Museum of Commerce and Catering

The address: Fortuna utca 4, Bus 16.
Web site: www.mkvm.hu
Relics which once belonged to famous hotels, restaurants, cafés, places of entertainment, and baths are displayed at the Hungarian Museum of Commerce and Catering.

Ráth György Museum

The address: Városligeti fasor 12, M1 Bajza utca.
The Museum shows the exhibitions of the Ferenc Hopp Museum of Far Eastern Arts, and the Museum of Applied Arts, Art of China and Art of Japan.

Hungarian National Gallery

The address: Buda Palace, Wings B, C and D. Bus 16.
Web site: www.mng.hu
nationalThis has over 100,000 items reflecting Hungarian history from the Magyar Conquest to the present day. Permanent exhibitions: Mediæval and Renaissance Stonework, Gothic Wooden Statues and Panel Paintings, Late Gothic Winged Altarpieces, Renaissance and Baroque Art, the Habsburg Crypt, Nineteenth Century Hungarian Art and Sculpture, and Twentieth Century Hungarian Art and Sculpture.

 
 


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