There used to be a significant Roman city on the site of today’s Óbuda with two open-air theatres, so it is possible to see Roman ruins in Óbuda even in an ordinary underpass.
The public baths of the legionary fortress, the Thermae Maiores, were discovered during the first excavations in Aquincum in 1778 when one of the bath's halls came to light. István Schönvisner, the director of these investigations, published his results in the same year under the title "De Ruderibus Caldariique Romani". Soon after its recovery, this section ...
The collection of the Budapest History Museum is made up of three major parts: architectural findings, object materials from the city history and work of art. A visit through the exhibition is a virtual time journey, which gives you the opportunity to have a look at relics of the past raging from architectural findings that are more than 40,000 years old to ...
The museum was founded by Ferenc Hopp (1833-1919) former wealthy optician, world traveller, art sponsor and art collector by his will. The museum displays his own Oriental collection, which numbered 4,000 items, containing Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Tibetian and Mongolian statues, paintings, ceramics, sculptures, embroideries and other artefacts ...
The Geological Institute of Hungary the oldest still functioning scientific research institute was founded in 1869 as the Hungarian Royal Geological Institute. Its founding charter was signed by the emperor Francis Joseph II. Through the execution of its tasks financed from state budget the Geological Institute of Hungary (MÁFI) provides impartial, ...
Gül Baba's octagonal tomb is located on Mecset Street, Budapest, a short but steep walk from the Margaret Bridge in the district of Rózsadomb. It was built by Ottoman authorities in Hungary between 1543 and 1548, on the orders of the third pasha of Buda, and has a shallow dome covered with lead plates and wooden tiles. It was left undamaged when the ...
The Páva Synagogue and the adjoining new wing designed by the Ybl-prize winner István Mányi houses the Holocaust Memorial Center since 2004.
The institution was awarded Nivó Prize of Architecture for restoration and rehabilitation of a historic monument in 2005.
The building complex is a mix of classical and modern architecture. The ...
Having survived two terror regimes, it was felt that the time had come for Hungary to erect a fitting memorial to the victims, and at the same time to present a picture of what life was like for Hungarians in those times.
In December 2000 "The Public Foundation for the Research of Central and East European History and Society" purchased the building with ...
The Hungarian National Gallery, was established in 1957 as the national art museum. It is located in Buda Castle in Budapest, Hungary. The collection, which can be found in the A, B, C and D buildings of Buda Castle, includes nearly a hundred thousand artefacts dating from the early mediaeval times until the present day. The Hungarian National Gallery is ...
The Hungarian National Museum is the national museum of Hungary. The museum building is in Budapest VIII and was built in the Classical style 1837-47 by the architect Mihály Pollack. The building where the Hungarian National Museum is currently located was built from 1837-1847. The style of the main building was laid out in a neo-classical style and was ...
The idea of an independent exhibition of mostly Jewish religious objects arose during the 1896 millennial celebrations for the first time, when the Jewish religion was presented as one of the historic religions of Hungary.
Miksa Szabolcsi, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Egyenlőség (Equality) suggested that the exhibited material should constitute ...
The mission of the
Kassák Museum is to preserve the material and intellectual legacy of Lajos
Kassák, (1887 Érsekújvár – 1967 Budapest, writer, editor, artist) to study it
with academic approach and to present it as a colorful experience to visitors. Our
aim is that the museum step up to be an acknowledged location of Kassák
researches carried out in ...
When Communist systems collapsed in Eastern Europe in 1989-90, the vast symbols of the dictatorship were removed from the streets everywhere in what seemed like a blink of an eye. Throughout the Communist block, the statues were melted or sold as scrap metal - but not in Hungary.
The city fathers looked at possible options as to what to do with the ...
The palace housing the Museum of Applied Arts, a masterpiece of Hungarian Art Nouveau was built between 1893 and 1896 on the plans of Ödön Lechner and Gyula Pártos. The inner and outer ceramic cover of the building as well as the roofing are from the worldfamous Zsolnay porcelain Manufacture, Pécs. Classics of European applied arts give the core of the ...
The Museum of Ethnography is one of the oldest institutions in Hungary. It was founded as a subdivision of the Hungarian National Museum in 1872. Its first collection was the East Asian collection of János Xantus. From the 1890s the attention began to focus on the disappearing values of the Hungarian culture and that of our neighbors, relatives, and other ...
The millenary session of the Hungarian Parliament in 1896 passed a law whereby art collections previously held in different institutions were to be unified and placed in the newly-established Museum of Fine Arts. On the basis of a competitive tender, Albert Schickedanz and Fülöp Herzog were commissioned to design and construct the building, which ...
The biggest museum of agriculture in Europe can be found in the Castle of Vajdahunyad on the Széchenyi-island in Városliget, Budapest in outstanding building. Its designer Ignác Alpár merged different architectural styles, made use of different elements, details of well-known buildings of historical Hungary. Citizens of Budapest named this group of ...
The museum is situated in the north-western part of the Buda Castle district. Its main attractions include a remarkable collection of historical weaponry from before the 150-year Turkish occupation to the recent past; uniforms, maps, shells, flags, a coin collection containing about 28,000 items, also an exhibition dedicated to the recollections of ...
The Budapest-based Museum of Transportation is one of the longest-standing technical museums. Its permanent exhibitions include objects and documents from the history of public road, railway, air and city traffic, shipping, space travel, road and bridge construction.
The Visitor Centre is an exhibition focusing on the areas, concepts and deices closely related to the Bank's activities. The Centre covers a wide range of apparently very different topics whose central unifying theme is money.
The exhibition begins by describing how money developed over the ages, what notes and coins are in circulation and how they are ...
The unique entertainment, and educational institution opened its doors for the show named Tutanhamon Museion in its centre in Budapest on September 20th 2012. The Museion program "Secrets of the Pharaohs" is dedicated for all in age from 6 to 99 years; there the visitors can experience the various rituals from the time of ancient Egypt, including one of the ...
The Kodály Zoltán Memorial Museum shows the world-famous composer’s life and professional achievements through an exhibition of his former home on Kodály Körönd. Kodály Zoltán lived under Körönd 1 from 1924 until his death in 1967.
The museum opened in the spring of the year 1990. The exhibition displays his furniture, books and other personal effects. ...
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