Budapest Museums

Aquincum Museum In 1878, a municipal resolution was passed in order to protect the surviving surface ruins of the Roman Town of Aquincum in Óbuda. In 1879, a special commission identified the areas where systematic research could begin. Excavations began on the so-called " Csiga hill ",- where the civilian amphitheater was located - in 1880. Additional work started at the Papföld site in the following year, gradually revealing the center of the Aquincum civilian town… Continue reading
Castlemuseum Nagytétény The baroque mansion has an exhibition tracing the history of European furniture from Gothic to Biedermeier. Temporary exhibitions, events. The furniture exhibition staged in the Museum presents the most important works in the furniture collection at the Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest. Over the many years of its growth, this collection has become unique in its own right. Continue reading
Ludwig Museum Budapest - Museum of Contemporary Art The collection is especially rich in works by American Pop-Art artists, and by German, French and North American artists active in the 1980s. It also surveys Hungarian art in the 1990s. Continue reading
Ferenc Liszt Memorial Museum The Franz Liszt Memorial Museum is housed in the building of the old Academy of Music, as a reconstuction of Liszt's last Budapest flat. The composer as the president of the Academy of Music and professor of the master class for piano lived and held his lessons here in his last 6 years between 1881 and 1886. Continue reading
Museum of Ethnography One of the largest ethnographical museums in Europe. It presents the art, customs, national costumes, and way of life of Hungarians, nationalities in Hungary and other peoples of Europe and outside Europe.Continue reading
Statue Park On the outskirt of Budapest, a mere fifteen minutes from centre city by car or bus, you can find a museum that is unique, not just in Eastern Europe but in the World: The Statue Park Museum. All the statues of Budapest gathered together here that once stood in public places, as beacons for the political and ideological culture of the former socialist period. Continue reading