Museums in Budapest and Hungary
From the Museum of Fine Arts and the House of Terror to a pinball hall and a cave-dwelling museum. Most cards say what you will see, so you can pick the one that fits your day.
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Aquincum Museum
Aquincumi Múzeum
From November the archaeological park opens only when the ground is dry, and the two indoor micro-sites drop to three ten-minute slots a day. The season split, the free day on 19 September 2026, and who the reduced tic…
Arcade Museum Budapest
Budapest's new arcade museum on Bajcsy-Zsilinszky út: more than 100 original arcade cabinets and pinball tables, all playable on one 5,900 HUF ticket, open daily 12:00-22:00.
Barlanglakás Emlékmúzeum
The oddest thing in Budafok is not a cellar at all. The Barlanglakás Emlékmúzeum at Veréb u.
Bartók Béla Emlékház
Selected performances appear on the official channel, a free, global window into the hall's sound world.
Biró-Giczey Ház
The two finest interiors on the hill are open only with a guide. The Gizella Chapel is a two-story chapel from the 13th century with frescoes of the apostles from the same period.
Budapest History Museum (Castle Museum)
BTM Vármúzeum
Gothic statues found in a sealed cellar in 1974 and the medieval royal palace dug out under Buda Castle: the Castle Museum opens every day, Mondays included, 10:00 to 18:00, for 3,800 HUF.
Budapest Pinball Museum
Flippermúzeum
The Budapest Pinball Museum has 160+ playable machines and one flat fee for unlimited play until closing. 2026 prices, hours, and how to get to Flippermúzeum.
Cat Museum Budapest
A small museum of cat-themed art on Vadász utca in District V, with resident cats living among the exhibits.
Déri Múzeum
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Esztergomi Vármúzeum
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Herendi Porcelanium
The Minimanufaktúra is a guided demonstration workshop. After a short film, throwers and painters show how Herend porcelain is made.
Holocaust Memorial Center
Holokauszt Emlékközpont
A glass wall of about 180,000 names, an exhibition on what was taken from Hungary's Jews and Roma, and a 1924 synagogue. Open Sunday to Friday; adults 3,600 HUF.
Hospital in the Rock
Sziklakórház
Hospital in the Rock is visited on a 60-minute guided tour: €30 for the English program, 9,500 Ft for the Hungarian one. Prices, the walk to Lovas út 4/c, and the rules to know before you book.
House of Houdini
The House of Houdini on Dísz tér is a small Houdini collection plus a live close-up magic show, open daily 10:00 to 19:00 for 15 euros. Booking, kids, getting there.
House of Music Hungary
Magyar Zene Háza
The permanent exhibition is 5,500 Ft. The Freddie show beside it is 8,900 Ft on weekdays and 10,900 Ft on weekends. Which ticket to book, and which one is still open on a Saturday evening.
House of Terror
Terror Háza
House of Terror at Andrássy út 60 was HQ to both the Arrow Cross and the communist secret police. Tickets, timing, and what waits inside.
Hungarian National Gallery
Magyar Nemzeti Galéria
Csontváry's twenty-square-meter sunset, fifteen winged altarpieces in the old throne room and a dome with the city below: a two-hour route through the Hungarian National Gallery, 5,800 HUF.
Hungarian National Museum
Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum
3,500 Ft buys the permanent halls at Hungary's oldest museum. The Coronation Mantle and Seuso Treasure are closed for now, so here is everything that is open.
Keresztény Múzeum
Víziváros, Watertown, is the strip between Castle Hill and the river, and it holds one of the finest collections in the country.
Kiscelli Museum
Kiscelli Múzeum
A Baroque monastery on an Óbuda hill, its bare-brick church full of big temporary shows, plus 1712 statues and old shop signs. Tickets, hours and the bus that skips the climb.
Kovács Margit Ceramic Museum
Kovács Margit Kerámiamúzeum
Kovács Margit Ceramic Museum. The work of Margit Kovács, the ceramicist whose elongated, expressive figures and folk scenes make this the art museum to pick if you see only one.
Leskowsky Hangszergyűjtemény
The Leskowsky Musical Instrument Collection at Rákóczi út 15 is Hungary's largest interactive instrument collection, and on the guided visit you can play many of the instruments, which makes it a good stop with children.
Levendula Ház Látogatóközpont
The lavender stop outside the bloom is the Levendula Ház (Lavender House Visitor Centre) on Major utca, run by the Balaton Uplands National Park.
Ludwig Múzeum
Insider tip Plan it as a daytime stop: both exhibition floors close at 18:00, Tuesday to Sunday, and the museum is closed on Mondays.
Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum
The national natural history collection at Ludovika tér in District VIII, with fossils, minerals and wildlife displays.
Magyar Vasúttörténeti Park
A large open-air railway museum in District XIV, full of historic locomotives and carriages, with a garden railway for small passengers.
Mai Manó Ház
The Mai Manó House at Nagymező utca 20, opposite the Operetta Theater, is the city's other big photography address, in the eight-level studio house the court photographer Manó Mai had built in 1894.
Memento Park
Hungary didn't destroy its communist statues; it moved them to a field outside Budapest. Memento Park's 2026 prices, hours, guided tours and how to get there.
Móra Ferenc Múzeum
The neoclassical museum on Roosevelt tér, facing the river, is the sight that stays open on Mondays.
Műcsarnok
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Museum of Ethnography
Néprajzi Múzeum
Walk the free grass roof at any hour, then go underground for Busó masks, a Maya stela from 731 and the oldest surviving Székely gate. All-in ticket 5,500 HUF, closed Mondays.
Museum of Fine Arts
Szépművészeti Múzeum
A painted Romanesque Hall that was a storeroom for seventy years, Raphael's tiny Esterházy Madonna, Goya and Egypt: a two-hour route, plus 2026 prices, Monday closure and Gauguin slots.
Museum of Illusions
The Museum of Illusions Budapest has reopened after its renovation. Adult tickets cost 6,500 HUF, it opens daily at 10:00, and the visit takes about 90 minutes. What is inside and how to fit it into a day.
Ráth György-villa
György Ráth was the museum's first director general and one of the great private collectors of his day.
Robert Capa Center
Robert Capa Kortárs Fotográfiai Központ
About 138 Robert Capa photographs, from Spain to Indochina, plus André Kertész, in a 1912 house off Andrássy út. Tickets from 3,000 HUF, closed Mondays.
Skanzen
If you have children and it is the season, the Skanzen, Hungary's open-air village museum, is a short bus ride out of town (bus 878 or 879 from bay 7 next to the HÉV terminus, 12 minutes, 400 Ft).
Sóstói Múzeumfalu
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Storno-ház
Four buildings on Fő tér, Storno House, Fabricius House, the Tábornok House and the Firewatch Tower, are linked into one Museum Quarter with a set of separate exhibitions, and you choose what to see rather than buying a ticket…
Szamos Chocolate Museum
Szamos Csokoládé Múzeum
The Szamos Chocolate Museum sits on the upper floor of Szamos Cafe on Kossuth ter, across the square from Parliament. The guided tour costs 7,500 HUF, runs an hour, and every slot on the public calendar is Hungarian on…
Szórakaténusz Játékmúzeum
The Szórakaténusz Toy Museum at Gáspár András körút 11 is open Tuesday to Saturday, 10:00 to 17:00, and costs 1,200 Ft (about $3.70).
Vaszary Galéria
The Vaszary Villa on Honvéd utca was built in 1892 as the summer villa of Kolos Vaszary, Prince-Primate of Hungary.