Other Museums

The first telephone operator centre in Hungary was established in 1881. Centred around a switchboard which still works today, this "living museum" documents the history of the telephone.
Address
I. Úri u. 49.
Opening Hours
10.00-18.00 1 Apr-31 Oct
10.00-16.00 1 Nov-31 Mar
Closed: Mon

Endre Ady (1877-1919) is a Hungarian poet of world rank. The last residence of Endre Ady, furnished by the poet and his wife.
Address
V. Veres Pálné u. 4-6.
Opening Hours
10.00-18.00 1 Jan-31 Dec
Closed: Mon, Tue

Items showing the development from a Medieval alchemist's workshop-laboratory to a Baroque pharmacy.
Address
I. Tárnok u. 18.
Opening Hours
10.30-17.30 1 Jan-31 Dec
Closed: Mon

Some 300 mementoes - mostly dating from this century - of the greatest Hungarian actors and actresses, displayed in the former villa of Gizi Bajor (1893-1951), life-member of the National Theatre.
Address
XII. Stromfeld Aurél u. 16.
Opening Hours
Tue 12.00-16.00
Thu 14.00-18.00
Sat, Sun 10.00-18.00
25 Aug-14 July

The exhibition presents the history of Hungarian coins and banknotes - from the oldest Hungarian coin, a denarius minted by Hungary's first king, St. Stephen, to the coins and banknotes of the present day. A special section deals with the monetary history of Transylvania.
Address
V. Szabadság tér 8.
Opening Hours
Thu 9.00-14.00

The life and times of Béla Bartók, one of the greatest composers of the 20th century, are commemorated in his former home, where stamps and artworks inspired by him are also on display. Chamber music concerts are held here.
Address
II. Csalán út 29.
Opening Hours
10.00-17.00 1 Jan-31 Dec
Closed: Mon

This unique exhibition presents nearly all the stamps that have ever been issued around the world. Includes several special stamps, e.g. the Hungarian "reversed Madonna", the Hawaiian "missionary stamps", the smallest and biggest stamps in the world, and a collection of forgeries.
Address
VII. Hársfa u. 47.
Opening Hours
10.00-18.00 1 Apr-31 Oct
10.00-16.00 1 Nov-31 Mar
Closed: Mon

A comprehensive Bible history exhibition including: the first printed Greek New Testament issued by Erasmus; the Luther Old Testament translation; the so-called Vizsolyi Bible, the first complete Hungarian translation of the Bible.
Address
IX. Ráday u. 28.
Opening Hours
10.00-17.00 1 Jan-31 Dec
Closed: Mon

Exhibitions of paintings, sculptures, installations, photos and applied art by contemporary Hungarian and foreign artists representing the most diverse trends.
Address
V. Szabadsajtó u. 5.
Opening Hours
10.00-18.00 1 Jan-31 Dec
Closed: Mon

Besides the exhibitions presenting the history of Budapest, visitors can also see reconstructed sections, and Gothic sculptures from the Mediaeval Royal Palace.
Address
Buda Castle Royal Palace, wing E
Phone.: (+36-1)224-3700
Website: http://www.btm.hu
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Opening Hours
10.00-18.00 1 March - 31 October (Closed: Tue)
10.00-18.00 after 19 March (open every day)

Evidence from criminal cases from the mid-60s on. Presentation of several famous cases with the assistance of models and photos. Collection of police memorabilia (plaques, Hungarian and foreign uniforms, etc.): 100
Address
VIII. Mosonyi u. 7.
Opening Hours
10.00-17.00 1 May-31 Dec
Closed: Mon

Temporary exhibitions of contemporary Hungarian and international fine and applied art, design, and the latest artistic trends.
Address
V. Dorottya u. 8.
Opening Hours
Mon-Fri 10.00-18.00 1 Jan-31 Dec
Sat 10.00-14.00

Temporary exhibitions of contemporary Hungarian and international fine and applied art, design, and the latest artistic trends.
Address
VI. Nagymező u. 8.
Opening Hours
10.00-18.00 1 Jan-31 Dec
Closed: Mon

Significant cultural and artistic objects of the Lutheran Church dating from the Reformation to the end of the Second World War, including the original last will and testament of Martin Luther (1542)
Address
V. Deák tér 4.
Opening Hours
10.00-18.00 1 Jan-31 Dec
Closed: Mon

Continental Europe's first motor-powered underground railway was established in Budapest in 1896. Two carriages from this period are on display in an original section of the tunnel.
Address
V. Deák tér, underpass
Opening Hours
10.00-18.00 1 Jan-31 Dec
Closed: Mon

Presenting a unique collection of paintings, prints and graphic art relating to the history of Budapest, the museum's collection provides an overview of 20th century Hungarian art.
Address
III. Kiscelli út 108.
Website: http://www.btm.hu
Opening Hours
10:00 - 16:00
closed on Mondays

The burial-vault of Gül Baba, a Turkish dervish honoured as a holy man, was built between 1543 and 1548. Converted into a museum, it is a well-known place of pilgrimage for Muslims.
Address
II. Mecset u. 14.
Opening Hours
10.00-18.00

A collection of several hundred thousand items, from weapons and uniforms to coins, flags and artworks. Its exhibitions recount the history of war in Hungary.
Address
I. Tóth Árpád sétány 40.
Opening Hours
10.00-16.00 1 Feb-31 Mar
10.00-18.00 1 Apr-30 Sept
10.00-16.00 1 Oct-15 Dec
Closed: Mon

The museum was built in Hungarian Art Nouveau style. Established in 1872, this was Europe's third applied arts museum after London's South Kensington (today the Victoria and Albert Museum) and the Österreichisches Museum für Kunst und Industrie in Vienna.
Address
IX. Üllői út 33-37.
Opening Hours
10.00-18.00
Closed: Mondays

Mementoes and furniture belonging to the novelist (1825-1904) also known as the "immortal storyteller".
Address
XII. Költő u. 21.
Tel: 356-2133
Opening Hours
20. May-20. Oct Wed-Fri: 10.00-14.00 h
Sat-Sun: 10.00-16.00
Closed: Monday, Tuesday

Manuscripts and other documents belonging to this great Hungarian poet (1905-1937) in his former studio flat.
Address
IX. Gát u. 3.
Opening Hours
10.00-16.00 1 Jan-31 Dec
Closed: Mon and Aug

Literary and fine art works created between 1915-1967 by Lajos Kassák. Exhibitions of avant-garde art.
Address
III. Fő tér 1.
Tel.: 368-7021
Opening Hours
10.00-18.00 1 Jan-31 Dec
Closed: Mondays

Kodály's (1882-1967) apartment in authentic condition, with photographs, manuscripts and documents recording his folk-music collections.
Address
VI. Kodály körönd 1.
Opening Hours
Wed 10.00-16.00
Thu-Sat 10.00-18.00
Sun 10.00-14.00
1 Jan-23 Dec

The museum houses documents and objects recalling the life and culture of the Jewish community of Buda, along with some carved stone relics and tombstones.
Address
Táncsics Mihály u. 26.
Opening Hours
10.00-18.00 1 May-31 Oct
Closed: Mon

Musical instruments from various periods, including instruments used by an entire army band and by an orchestra from the age of Haydn, are shown here, together with an exhibition presenting the stages in the career of Béla Bartók.
Address
I. Táncsics Mihály u. 7
Opening Hours
10.00-18.00 1 Mar-31 Dec
Closed: Mon

Visitors will find the museum contains relics of the Hungarian Jewish community, including religious objects relating to its special holidays, articles used in everyday life and the Holocaust memorial room.
Address
VII. Dohány u. 2.
Opening Hours
Mon-Thu: 10-17, ticket office closes at 16.30
Fri, Sun: 10-14, ticket office closes at 13.30

Few people know that the first museum of local and settlement history of the capital city was founded here in Óbuda, in the civil boy school in Kiskorona street 10. in 1927. with the assistance of professor Edgar Pálóczi and was named as Árpád Museum of Óbuda. The contents of the Museum were destroyed in 1945, therefore the present Museum of Óbuda is not the real successor or legal predessesor of the previous Museum, however it bears its mentality. The name, Museum of Óbuda is used since 1996. Previously it was called as Local history Collection of Óbuda, as well as, the Collection of Local History of Budapest 3rd district. At its foundation Exhibition of Local History was its appropriate name. At the 100 year anniversary of integrating Pest-Buda-Óbuda the Executing Committee of the 3rd district Council placed a marble memorial as a rememberance of the opening of the exhibition of the local history in 16th November 1973. By that time the institutional operation was ensured by the Culture House, and later on by the Social Club of Óbuda. Between 1990-93 the Collection was closed and was lying between existence and non-existence. This state was over by starting serious reconstruction works after which the Museum became an independent institution of the Óbuda-Békásmegyer Council. The exhibition of Local history which grew to a meaningful collection became a comprihensive Museum. Its different collections gained place in the environment of the most beautiful work of arts of the City, in the buildings of the Fő square in the 3rd district. The Flat Museum can be found under no. 4 in Fő square, in an 18th century Baroque building. This a folk art collection of Zsigmond Kun. The collection is exhibited - pottery, textiles, carvings, furniture - about a thousend objects in all. Maria Kresz give detailed professional description of this in her study in the publication of the Museum Regions and Era, in English.
Address
III. Főtér 1.
Tel.: 388-2534
Opening Hours
Monday: closed
Tuesday-Friday: 14.00-18.00
Saturday, Sunday: 10.00-18.00

Railway locomotive models unique in Europe (made on a scale of 1:5), old cars, motorcycles, trams, and models of ships show the development of transportation in Hungary.
Address
XIV. Városligeti körút 11.
Opening Hours
Tue-Fri 10.00-16.00 1 Jan-30 Apr
10.00-17.00 (18.00 weekends) 1 May-30 Sept
Sat, Sun 10.00-17.00 1 Oct-31 Dec

Visitors can extend a basic knowledge of electricity by studying experimental devices which actually work, and can learn about the development of the production, distribution and use of electrical energy.
Address
VII. Kazinczy u. 21.
Opening Hours
Tue-Sat 11.00-17.00
1 Jan-31 Dec

Relics which once belonged to famous hotels, restaurants, cafés, places of entertainment, baths, and so on recall the ambience of Budapest at the beginning of the 20th century.
Address
I. Fortuna u. 4.
Opening Hours
Wed-Fri 10.00-17.00
Sat-Sun 10.00-18.00
1 Jan-31 Dec

The largest agricultural museum in Europe is housed in a spectacular building, which combines Romanesque-, Gothic-, Renaissance- and Baroque-style sections.
Address
XIV. Vajdahunyad Castle
Website: http://www.museum.hu/budapest/mezogazdasagi
Opening Hours
10.00-17.00 (Sun 18.00)
1 Mar-14 Nov
10.00-16.00 (Sun 17.00)
15 Nov-28 Feb
Closed: Mon

The museum is one of the finest examples of Hungarian Classicism.
Hungarian history is presented from the foundation of the state up until 1990. The Hungarian Holy Crown and the Crown Jewels was seen here, but on 1 of january 2000 were moved to the Parlament. Stonework remains from the Roman period, the Middle Ages and from early modern times.
The museum played a key role in the 1848-49 revolution and as such it became one of its symbols; for this reason the National Museum is to this day one of the focal points of celebrations marking the national holiday of March 15.
Address
VIII. Múzeum krt. 14-16.
Website: http://www.origo.hnm.hu
Opening Hours
márc. 15.-okt. 14. 10-18 h
okt. 15.-márc. 14. 10-17 h
Closed: Mon

The national museum of Hungarian fine arts. Permanent exhibitions: Medieval and Renaissance museum of stonework remains, Gothic wood sculptures and easel paintings, Late-Gothic winged altars, Renaissance and Baroque art, Mihály Munkácsy and László Paál, painting and sculpture of the 19th and 20th centuries, Habsburg palatinate crypt.
Address
I. Buda Castle Royal Palace, wings B, C, D
Opening Hours
10.00-18.00 9 Mar-31 Oct
10.00-16.00 1 Nov-7 Mar
Closed: Mon

The interactive permanent exhibition and the interesting temporary exhibitions present an inside view of the colourful world of minerals, primordial beings, plants, animals and people.
Address
VIII. Ludovika tér 2
Website: http://www.nhmus.hu
Opening Hours
10.00-17.00, Closed:Monday-Tuesday

Grinding machinery, sieving machinery and other items of equipment from windmills, watermills, and machine-driven mills are on show in this exhibition, which presents the development of milling.
Address
IX. Soroksári út 24.
Opening Hours
Mon-Thu 9.00-14.00
1 Jan-31 Dec

Lapidarium, religious relics, a copy of the coronation jewels, chapel of the Knights Hospitaller, and masterpieces of the goldsmiths' art in the treasury.
Address
I. Szentháromság tér 2.
Website: http://www.matyas-templom.hu
Opening Hours
9.30-17.30 3 Feb-9 Jan

The exhibition illustrates the development of rescue operation techniques during the 100-year history of the Hungarian ambulance service. An interesting item among the exhibits is the portable iron lung used at the time when poliomyelitis was endemic.
Address
V. Markó u. 22.
Opening Hours
8.00-13.00 1 Jan-31 Dec

Works of a religious and secular nature displayed in the artist's (1894-1981) own studio. Pál Molnár-C. was a member of the so-called "Roman School".
Address
XI. Ménesi út 65.
Opening Hours
Tue-Thu 15.00-18.00
1 Jan-31 Dec
Sun 10.00-13.00

Temporary exhibitions offer a glimpse of the achievements of contemporary Hungarian and foreign artists in fine arts, applied arts, photography, design, and the latest art trends.
A three-dimensional (CountryRama 3D) film presented in the air conditioned projection room of the Palace of Art (Műcsarnok) in Heroes’ Square (Hősök tere) about the natural values as well as cultural, architectural and historic sights of Hungary.
Address
XIV. Hősök tere
Opening Hours
10.00-18.00 1 Jan-31 Dec
Closed: Mon

The collection of minerals and fossils relates the geological history of Hungary. An outstanding example of Hungarian Art Nouveau architecture, the building itself is especially fine.
Address
XIV. Stefánia út 14.
Opening Hours
Thu, Sat, Sun 10.00-16.00
5 Jan-20 Dec

Exhibitions presenting historical Hungarian buildings, great Hungarian architects, and past and present efforts to protect historic monuments.
Address
I. sics Mihály u. 1.
Opening Hours
9.00-17.00 1 Jan-31 Dec

The history of smelting and casting set in an industrial historical workshop with original foundry equipment.
Address
II. Bem József u. 20.
Opening Hours
9.00-17.00 1 Jan-31 Dec

The museum on the first floor of an Eclectic palace shows you a 19th century post office, old mail service vehicles and other equipment.
Address
VI. Andrássy út 3.
Opening Hours
10.00-18.00 1 Apr-31 Oct
10.00-16.00 1 Nov-31 Mar
Closed: Mon

Drawing on a collection comprising 20,000 Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Tibetan-Nepali and Mongolian pieces, the organizers present Eastern Asiatic art in temporary exhibitions.
Address
VI. Városligeti fasor 12.
Opening Hours
10.00-16.00 1 Nov-31 Mar
10.00-18.00 1 Apr-31 Oct
Closed: Mon

Original passenger planes and gliders are displayed along with models and the space capsule of the first Hungarian cosmonaut.
Address
XIV. Zichy Mihály utca
(Petőfi Csarnok)
Opening Hours
10.00-17.00 (18.00 weekends) 1 May-30 Sept.
10.00-16.00 (17.00 weekends) 1-15 Oct
Closed: Mon

Ignác Semmelweis (1818-1865), obstetrician and "saviour of mothers", was born in this house and is buried here. He was the first to discover that puerperal fever could be prevented by asepsis. The exhibition follows the history of healing and medicines.
Address
I. pród u. 1-3.
Opening Hours
10.30-18.00 1 Jan-31 Dec

Medals, mementoes and photographs of famous Hungarian sportsmen offer an insight into Hungarian sporting history, complemented by video recordings and other documentation.
Address
XIV. Dózsa György út 3.
Opening Hours
10.00-16.30 1 Jan-31 Dec
Closed: Fri

The exhibition features an outstanding collection of Ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman art, along with a selection of European masterpieces including one of the largest collections of Spanish art outside Spain.
Address
XIV. Hősök tere
Opening Hours
10.00-17.30 1 Jan-31 Dec
Closed: Mon

Visitors can learn about the history of fire safety and fire fighting by studying exhibits ranging from items found in a 2000-year-old Roman fire station to modern equipment.
Address
X. Martinovics Ignácz tér 12.
Opening Hours
9.00-16.00 (Sun 13.00)
1 Jan-31 Dec
Closed: Mon

Statues, medals, drawings and copies of the artist's sculptures in squares and public buildings are presented here, together with the latest works by the famous Hungarian sculptor Imre Varga.
Address
III. Laktanya u. 7.
Opening Hours
10.00-18.00 1 Jan-31 Dec
Closed: Mon

Four hundred works by the Hungarian-born artist - the "Father of Op-Art" - are shown here, along with temporary exhibitions presenting works by Hungarian artists living outside Hungary.
Address
III. Szentlélek tér 6.
Opening Hours
10.00-18.00 15 Mar-31 Oct
10.00-17.00 1 Nov-14 Mar
Closed: Mon

This unique museum exhibits the current official flags of the countries and regions of five continents. Presidents and monarchs have donated a considerable number of the flags.
Address
VIII. József krt. 68.
Opening Hours
1 Jan-31 Dec
Tue-Thu, Sat 10.00-15.00