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Museums
Museums became popular in Budapest during the mid –19th century, when the middle class was emerging, the urban population was growing, and new-found political independence flamed a desire to reassert – and display – Hungarian nationhood and heritage.
There was a particular boom between 1867 and 1914, prosperous years, and the period of the Millennial Exhibition. The legacies of these enlightened patrons among the upper-middle or noble classes remain, often framed by magnificent works of architecture.
Hungarian National Museum
( Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum) VIII, Múzeum körútThe largest museum in Hungary, and regal with it. Among its garden statues is that of Ferenc Széchenyi ( 1754-1820), the enlightened rock on whose collection the museum was founded. The neoclassical palace was built in 1847 by Mihály Pollack and became a smbol of the Independence War a short time later. On March 15 1848, radical intellectuals gathered outside and demand reform, and copies of Petőfi’s ’National Song’ were distributed.
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Museum of Fine Arts ( Szépművészeti Múzeum) XIV, Dózsa György út 41. One of Europe’s finest art collections. The building has the look of a classical temple and the interior is a shrine to past masters. It includes six collections: the Egyptian and Greek and RomanCollections, the Old Masters’ Gallery, the Prints and Drawings Collection, the Old Sculptures and the Modern Collection. Here you can see the masterpieces of Leonardo, Raphael, Giorgione, Correggio, Titian, Veronese, Dürer, Cranach, Brueghel, Rubens, El Greco, Velázquez, Murillo, Goya, Delacroix, Courbet, Manet, Monet, Cézanne...It opened in 1906. The Parliament in its millennium session of 1896 had initiated its foundation.
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Hungarian National Gallery, Royal Palace Wing B-C-D (Magyar Nemzeti Galéria ) I .Szent György tér 2.Permanent exhibitions: Hungarian works of art dating back to the 13th century.
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Budapest History Museum ( Budapesti Történeti Múzeum) I. Szent György tér 2. Royal Palace Wing E - Permanent exhibitions: The history of Budapest from the prehistoric times to Budapest in Modern Times.
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Ethnographical Museum ( Néprajzi Múzeum) V. Kossuth tér 12.Close to one million items of ethnographical collection.
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Aquincum Museum and ruins ( Aquincumi Múzeum és romterület) III. Záhony u.4.The traces of the Roman occupation and settlement.
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House of Terror Museum ( Terror Háza Múzeum) VI. Andrássy út 60.The purpose: to understand and feel the essence of the darkest and most tragical decades of the 20th century Hungarian history, and to raise a monument to the memory of all victims of Nazi and Soviet power.
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