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Museum of Applied Art [3] ●5 C4<br />
IX., Üllôi út 33–37 ≥ 456-5100<br />
ó Tue–Sun: 10 am–6 pm —<br />
The beautiful Art Nouveau building (with Zsolnay<br />
ceramics on the roof) designed by Ödön<br />
Lechner and Gyula Pártos is one of the<br />
most attractive sights in the capital.<br />
Major collections and art objects:<br />
Oriental rug collection, wall hangings,<br />
Esterházy treasury, 17th century aristocratic<br />
costumes, Art Nouveau glassware, Italian<br />
majolica, Zsolnay ceramics, French furniture,<br />
Augsburg Baroque goldsmith’s work.<br />
3 Ferenc körút « 4, 6 % HUF 300–600<br />
Kassák Lajos Memorial Museum ●6 B1<br />
III., Fô tér 1 ≥ 368-7021 ó Tue–Sun: 10 am–6 pm —<br />
Exhibition in the former Zichy Mansion on the art of<br />
Lajos Kassák, leading artist of Hungarian avant-garde,<br />
poetry, painting and literary editor. The museum’s<br />
new permanent exhibition: 20th century Hungarian<br />
art, from the legacies of Hungarian authors.<br />
ç 6, 86 « 1 « Árpád híd % HUF 100–150<br />
Kiscell Museum ●7 A1<br />
III., Kiscelli utca 108 ≥ 388-7817<br />
ó Tue–Sun: 10 am–4 pm —<br />
The museum building was constructed for the<br />
Trinitarian order in the 18th century, while it was later<br />
transformed into a Baroque mansion and even served<br />
as a hospital. Today it is one of the museums of<br />
<strong>Budapest</strong> in perhaps the most picturesque of locations,<br />
surrounded by woods at the foot of the Óbuda Hills. Its<br />
exhibitions embrace two major areas of collections from<br />
the <strong>Budapest</strong> History Museum: modern urban history,<br />
and the fine art collection of the Municipal Gallery.<br />
« 17 ç 60, 165 % HUF 300–600<br />
Ludwig Múzeum C4<br />
Museum of Contemporary Art ● 8<br />
(Palace of Arts)<br />
IX., Komor Marcell utca 1 ≥ 555-3444<br />
ó Tue, Fri, Sun: 10 am–6 pm; Wed: 12 am–6 pm;<br />
Thur: 12 am–8 pm; Sat: 10 am–8 pm —<br />
The Hungarian contemporary art collection of<br />
Cologne art collector couple Irene and Peter<br />
Ludwig. A visit provides an overview of the past 50<br />
years of universal art, and contemporary Hungarian<br />
art from the last 10 years.<br />
« 1, 2, 24 ç 23, 54, 103 « Csepel, Ráckeve<br />
% Permanent exhibition: free, temporary<br />
exhibition: HUF 300–600<br />
Transport Museum ●9 D2<br />
XIV., Városligeti körút 11 ≥ 273-3840<br />
ó Tue–Fri: 10 am–5 pm, Sat–Sun: 10 am–6<br />
pm (closes one hour earlier from October to<br />
May) —<br />
One of Europe’s oldest transport history<br />
collections. Its model railway material is world<br />
famous. Permanent exhibitions over 8,000<br />
square metres include: 100 years and today,<br />
100 years of Hungarian motoring, A century of<br />
Hungarian state shipping, History of Motoring,<br />
History of steam locomotion, History of urban<br />
transport.<br />
« 1 ë 70, 72, 74 % free<br />
Hungarian National Gallery [7] 10 ● B3<br />
I., Dísz tér 17 ≥ 375-8584<br />
ó Tue–Sun.: 10 am–6 pm —<br />
The collection of 10,000 art objects sited in wings<br />
B, C and D of Buda Castle Palace covers the period<br />
from the foundation of the state to the present day.<br />
Permanent exhibitions: Medieval and Renaissance<br />
lapidarium, Gothic wood carvings and tableaux,<br />
Late Gothic winged altars, Renaissance and Baroque<br />
art, Habsburg palatine crypt, 19th century painting<br />
(Gyula Benczúr, Mihály Munkácsy, Viktor Madarász,<br />
Pál Szinyei Merse) and sculpture (István Ferenczy,<br />
Miklós Izsó), 20th century painting (József Rippl-<br />
Rónai, Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka, Béla Czóbel) and<br />
sculpture (Béni Ferenczy, Ferenc Medgyessy).<br />
è Castle bus % Permanent exhibition: free,<br />
temporary exhibition: HUF 300–600<br />
Hungarian National Museum ●11 C3<br />
VIII., Múzeum körút 14–16 ≥ 338-2122 ó Tue–Sun: 10<br />
am–6 pm (10 am–5 pm from November to May) —<br />
The museum (founded in 1802) was based on the<br />
numismatic, book and document collections of<br />
Count Ferenc Széchényi, and the number of art<br />
objects now exceeds one million. The huge national<br />
collection has occupied its present site, a neo-<br />
Classical building designed by Mihály Pollack, since<br />
1846. Permanent exhibitions: History of Hungary<br />
from the foundation of the state to 1990,<br />
Lapidarium-Roman stone finds.<br />
3 Kálvin tér « 47, 49 ç 15, 9 % Permanent<br />
exhibition: free, temporary exhibition: HUF 400–800<br />
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