Useful Budapest travel resources
Name: Transport Museum
Category: Museums and art
Location: 1146 Budapest, Városligeti krt. 11.
Internet: http://www.mmkm.hu/
This museum is closed for a renovation.
The history of the countless miraculous machines that were results of the most successful combinations of functionality and esthetics can be learned at the exhibitions covering a wide spectrum of vehicles on wheels, in water and in the air.… Read the rest here →
Name: Vasarely Museum
Category: Museums and art
Location: 1033 Budapest, Szentlélek tér 6.
Victor Vasarely donated to his country of origin several hundred of his works exhibited in this part of the Zichy castle which looks out over Szentlélek tér.… Read the rest here →
Name: Nagytétényi Castle Museum
Category: Museums and art
Location: 1225 Budapest, Kastélypark utca 9.
A rich and fascinating collection of furniture from the Middle Ages to the 19C is displayed in the 18C Száraz-Rudnyánszky castle, built on the site of the fortified Roman town of Campona.… Read the rest here →
Name: Holocaust Memorial Centre
Category: Museums and art
Location: 1094 Budapest, Páva utca 39.
Internet: www.hdke.hu
Opened in 2004, the Holocaust Memorial Centre is both a museum and an educational research centre. Its presentation of the Holocaust in Hungary is deeply moving, from the denial of the rights of victims (Jews and Roma), to their extermination, by means of a modern and powerful exhibition (soundtracks, film projections, photos, interactive terminals, maps etc).… Read the rest here →
Name: Budapest History Museum
Category: Museums and art
Location: 1014 Budapest, Szent György tér 2.
Internet: www.btm.hu
If you’re interested in what the Castle looked like in the time of King Matthias or the House of Anjou, get on the Buda Castle Funicular and time travel to the Budapest History Museum (Budapesti Történeti Múzeum).… Read the rest here →