Saint kings, suzerains and an archangel – Millenium Monument in Hero’s Square of Budapest
Popular and widespread belief, that the Millenium Monument on the Heroe’s Square of Budapest was built for the Millenium Celebrations in 1896, when Hungary celebrated the 1000th anniversary that its ancestors found a place to settle down in the Carpathian Basin. In fact, only the decision, that a monument must be erected here was enacted […]
Historical Museum of Budapest, Buda Castle
The exhibitions in the Budapest History Museum in the Royal Palace of Buda Castle focus on the turbulent history of the 2000 years of the city now known as Budapest: what the once separate towns of Buda, Pest and Obuda were like. Much of the exhibits were lost in WWII, but you will still see […]
Military Museum Budapest
Built as an army barrack in the 1830s for the Austrian Army staying in Buda, the Military History Museum in Buda Castle displays an abundant collection of weapons, uniforms, flags and all kind of military documents and relics. . There are some cannons by the entrance along with a few cannonballs in the wall, which […]
Transport Museum, Budapest
The site of today’s museum was built in 1896 as the “Transportation Hall” for the Milleneum Exhibition. Three years later the Royal Hungarian Transport Museum was opened in the same building. Unfortunately in WWII the museum suffered serious damages, – only about one third of the exhibits were spared. The building was restored in a […]
Hungarian National Museum in Budapest
On 25th November 1802, Count Ferenc Széchényi- father of the ‘greatest Hungarian’, Istvan Széchenyi – decided to ‘donate, deliver, and assign’ his rich collections ‘for the use and benefit of my dear homeland and people, irrevocably and forever’. The Law XXIV of 1807 states that Széchenyi ‘made over, with all rights, his extensive and choice […]
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
[The Museum of Fine Arts, founded in 1896 was built by the plans of Albert Schickedanz and Fülöp Herzog in an eclectic-neoclassical style, between 1900 and 1906. The collection features the history of visual arts in Europe from the 13th up to the 20th century. Its unique in the world, as while in Europe most of the great […]
Museum of Applied Arts Budapest – the gem of Hungarian secession
Art Nouveau as a style always provokes a reaction, and it is impossible to remain indifferent. The style is considered by many to be stunningly beautiful, with shimmering colours and imaginative forms, while others find it the height of bad taste. Actually art noveau or secession („modernismo” in Spain, „jugendstíl” in Austria and Germany) is […]
Traditional Culture of the Hungarians – Museum of Ethnography, Budapest
The Museum of Ethnography’s permanent exhibition offers visitors a glimpse of the material culture of the Hungarian peasantry as it was from the end of the 18th century until the First World War. Through thirteen rooms of material, the exhibition illustrates the ethnic and religious diversity of the peoples of the Carpathian Basin, the forms […]
Hungarian National Gallery
The National Gallery was created in 1957 with the aim to have a separate museum dedicated to the history of visual arts in Hungary. Originally it located opposite to the Hungarian Parliament, where the Ethnography Museum of Budapest stands today. It moved to Buda Castle in 1978. Exhibitions in the National Gallery feature the history […]
Budapest Zoo
Budapest Zoo was founded in 1866, as the 12th zoo of the world as a private institution. Almost from the beginning the animals were held according to their natural habitats, not in cages. Besides Hungarian species the zoo housed several rare species of monkeys, lemurs, parrots, camels, kangaroos and other special animals. It had neither lions, […]
Houdini Museum Budapest
It’s true, the American illusionist was Hungarian, born in Budapest in 1874, the son of a rabbi and part of a large family with seven children. Now, ninety years after his death Harry Houdini’s secrets are unlocked in the newly opened museum, devoted to the Budapest-born illusionist. The museum is located high in the capital’s lofty […]
The world’s only Marzipan Museum near Budapest
The workshops and knowledge of two great figures in the history of the Hungarian confectionery industry – Matyas Szamos and Karoly Szabo – were united here, in Szentendre, when the jointly operated shop opened its gates. Marzipan Museum is a colorful exhibition made entirely out of marzipan. One room is dedicated entirely to Hungarian artifaccts, […]
Room Escape Game in Budapest
These world-famous challenges are for those who dare to break out of locked rooms using only logic puzzles and by solving a labyrinth of tasks. While this sensation has been around since 2011, the number and styles of room escape adventures are on the rise also in Budapest. Whether on the trail of a serial […]
