This museum is in among the best of his kind in the world. When I heard there was a temporary exhibit about flying dinosaurs I wanted to have a look. The museums history is also almost 200 years old but it is a very modern building. The temporary exhibition about the dinosaurs wasn’t that big […]

You could think that paying 3500Ft (about 14€) to visit a cellar is slightly too expensive… It depends on what you can do in the cellar!! In fact, you can see a lot of bottles of wine from the different wine areas of Hungary, panels (in German, English and French) explain what are the main […]

The building of the Museum of Fine Arts was designed by Albert Schickedanz (just as the Hall of Art on the other side of the Square). The foundation of the Museum was decided in 1896, the work started in 1900 and the Museum opened it’s doors in 1906. The museum is hosting Egyptian, antique and […]

The museum of ethnography or the ‘Néprajzi Muzeum’ is among the largest of it’s kind in Europe. 139 00 Hungarian objects show you the traditional culture of the Hungarian people. The building is in front of the parliament and used to house the ‘royal high council’. Do I need to tell that it is a […]

There are museums that contain great pieces of art and there are museums that are also pieces of art themselves. The Iparmüveszeti Múzeum belongs to the latter category. Especially striking of course is the roof with the green and golden coloured tiles. This wonderful art nouveau building was built from 1893-1896 by master architect Ödön […]

The Hall of Art was founded in 1877, it’s first home was the actual Art University’s building under Andrassy Avenue 69-71. The buiding of the “new” Hall of Art was built according to the plans of Albert Schikedanz in 1896, together with the Millenium Memorial and the Museum of Fine Arts on the other side. […]

The Military History Museum is in the former army barracks dating from the 1830s. Look at the walls and you will find cannonballs embedded, in memory of the Hungarian army which liberated Buda Castle in 1849. You will find exhibits on the 1848 revolution and war for independence, the Hungarian Army from 1922 to 1944, […]

This is a must see I have yet to see! Budapest has hundreds of museums and I have found this newly opened contemporary art collection. And I think contemporary art is hot and not to be missed! (Lucky me – when visiting the Castle district and their National Gallery, the part was closed for renovation […]

The museum ‘House of Terror’ is in the very same building that host two of Hungarys most dark eras. 1944 the Nazis used this place as headquarter and after the war the, as the museum called it the ‘notorious communist terror organisation’ AVO was using this house as headquarter till 1956. No matter what your […]

Baba was a Turkish warrior-saint who acted as the army’s Imam during the conquest of Hungary in the 1541 campaign. Some of his poems – Guldeste = Bunch of Roses – and some of his mystical prose survive. The original mausoleum was built by the Ottoman commander Mehmed Pasha. Today, the renovated tomb, topped with […]