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40  INTRODUCING BUD APEST

Budapest’s Best: Museums and Galleries

Unlike many other European cities – such as Paris
with the Louvre and Madrid with the Prado – Budapest
does not have a museum founded from a royal treasury
because Hungary was for so long ruled by foreign
powers. In the early 19th century, however, the modern
aristocracy, backed by an increasingly affluent middle
class, began to take an interest in pre serving historic
objects for the nation. Today, there are over 60 museums
and galleries in Budapest, ranging from those with Museum of Military History
collections of international significance to others of This museum has interesting
much more local interest. For more information on displays illustrating the history
museums and galleries see pages 42–3. of Hungarian weaponry. HUNGÁR IA K ÖR Ú T
KÓS KÁROLY
Hungarian National SÉTÁNY
Gallery
The Hungarian art
displayed here dates
Margit híd
from the Middle Ages
right through to the SZENT ISTVÁN KRT A NDRÁSS Y Ú T
20th century. The Yawning
Apprentice (1868), by the
great Mihály Munkácsy, MAR GI T KÖ RÚT AROUND D ÓZ S A GY ÖR GY Ú T
is among the highlights NORTH OF THE PARLIAMENT T H ÖKÖ LY Ú T
of the collection. T ERÉ Z KÖ RÚT
CASTLE DISTRICT
AROUND
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CASTLE F Ő U . D
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Budapest History Museum b ATTILA U.
This Gothic work is one of the ATTI LA Ú T Széchenyi CENTRAL R ÁKÓC ZI Ú T
medieval treasures of the KRISZTINA KÖRÚT lánchíd PEST
Budapest History Museum.
The oldest ex hibits are R Á K Ó C Z I Ú T
located in the original,
lower-floor rooms of the JANE HANING R. J Ó Z S EF KÖ R ÚT
Renais sance Royal Palace. MÚZEUM KRT
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HEGYALJA ÚT B A R OSS U .
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AND TABÁN
BA RTÓK BÉLA ÚT

Museum of Ethnography
Among the exhibits at this
Semmelweis Museum of Medical History museum illustrating the material
Doctor Ignác Semmelweis, famous for his culture of the Hungarians, including
discovery of how to prevent puerperal fever, textiles, ceramics, artifacts and
was born in 1818 in the house where the furniture, is this jug, dating from 1864,
museum is now situated. made by György Mantl.

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