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scores and photographs. A Art Nouveau (see pp56–9) is
more general view of Hungarian striking. The museum’s perman­
music is on offer at the Museum ent collection was founded in
of Musical History, located 1872. Major exhibitions tend to
in a Baroque palace on Mihály change each year, while smaller
Táncsics Street. Displays national and foreign displays
feature the development of change monthly.
instruments and music in the
18th and 19th centuries; a
special section is dedicated Specialist Museums
to Béla Bartók. The Semmelweis Museum of
Medical History explores the
work of a doctor called Ignác
Ethnography and Semmelweis, who discovered
Oriental Crafts how to prevent puerperal fever.
Lavish folk costumes, as well as This affliction had previously
The Jewish Museum, located many other everyday items that been a serious threat for women
beside the Great Synagogue belonged to the people of the who had recently given birth.
region, can be viewed in the The Golden Eagle Pharmacy
beautiful interiors of the Museum Museum is situated in a building
History of Ethnography. Ethnic items that first opened as a pharmacy
The history of Budapest, and from North and South America, in 1681. Many original fixtures
that of Hungary as a whole, is Africa, Asia and Australia can also are intact and pharmaceutical
illustrated in several museums. be seen here. exhibits are displayed.
Relics from the Roman era can Chinese and Japanese artworks, Railway enthusiasts of all ages
be found at the Aquincum porcelain, ceramics and textiles will appreciate the Transport
Museum and at a handful of are displayed alongside pieces Museum on Hermina Street,
museums, including the Roman from Indonesia, India and Tibet with its enormous collection
Baths Museum, in Óbuda. at the Ferenc Hopp Museum of model trains and exhibits on
The most important national of Asiatic Arts (run by the the evolution of air, sea, road
historic treasures are housed Museum of Fine Arts) and the and rail transport.
in the Hungarian National Ráth György Museum (run
Museum. The Coronation by the Museum of Applied
Mantle, dating back to the Arts). The latter is housed in an Where to Find the
11th century, is included in Art Nouveau building and is Museums and
this collection. also home to a workshop Galleries
Medieval seals and Gothic for art conservation.
statuary are among the exhi bits Aquincum Museum pp166–7
at Budapest History Museum. Budapest History Museum p76
At the Museum of Military Decorative Arts Franz Liszt Museum p148
History, displays chart various Housed in an extraordinary Golden Eagle Pharmacy
Hungarian strug gles for building designed by Ödön Museum p84
liberty, including the 1956 Lechner (see p58), the Museum House of Terror Museum p148
Uprising (see p36). of Applied Arts gives an Hungarian National
The Jewish Museum has a impressive overview of the Gallery pp78–81
room covering the Holocaust, development of crafts from the Hungarian National Museum
as well as many ritual objects. Middle Ages onwards. Meissen pp134–7
The collection of the Lutheran porcelain is exhibited alongside Jewish Museum p138
Museum, situated next to the oriental carpets and Hungarian Ludwig Museum of Contemporary
Lutheran Church, includes a pieces. The display relating to Art (Müpa Budapest) p160
copy of Martin Luther’s will. Lutheran Museum p132
Müpa Budapest p160
Museum of Applied Arts pp140–41
Music
Museum of Ethnography p114
Two of the museums featured Museum of Fine Arts pp150–51
in this book, the Franz Liszt Museum of Military History p89
Museum and the Zoltán Kodály Museum of Musical History p85
Museum, are dedicated to Ráth György Museum p149
internationally renowned Semmelweis Museum of
composers. In each case, Medical History p99
the setting is the apartment Transport Museum p155
where the composer lived and Vasarely Museum p175
worked, and on display are the Stained-glass window at the Museum of Zoltán Kodály Museum p148
instruments they played, musical Applied Arts

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