Main Hungarian Museums

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The Museum of Fine Arts is a museum in Heroes' Square, Budapest, Hungary, facing the Palace of Art. It was built in an eclectic-neoclassical style, between 1900 and 1906. The museum's collection is made up of international art (other than Hungarian), including all periods of European art, and comprises more than 100,000 pieces. The collection is made up of older additions such as those from Buda Castle, the Esterházy and Zichy estates, as well as donations from individual collectors. The Museum's collection is made up of six departments: Egyptian, Antique, Old sculpture gallery, Old master paintings gallery, Modern collection, Graphics collection.

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The&nbsp;Hungarian Parliament Building&nbsp;&nbsp;is the seat of the&nbsp;National Assembly of Hungary, a notable landmark of Hungary, and a popular tourist destination in Budapest. It is situated on Kossuth Square in the Pest side of the city, on the eastern bank of the Danube. It was designed by Hungarian architect Imre Steindl in neo-Gothic style and opened in 1902.

The building is open nearly every day of the year for visits led by trained guides who speak numerous languages. Groups depart from the Visitor Centre to take a tour of approximately 50 minutes through the most beautiful rooms in the building.

The Hungarian National Museum has seven permanent displays. The general history of Hungary is covered in two sections: the archaeology from prehistory to the Avar period ending in 804 AD on the first (ground) floor, and the history from 804 to modern times on the first floor.  The history section then ends with the rise and fall of the communist system in Hungary. In another hall on the second floor one can find out about the Scholar Hungarians who made the twentieth century. A room on the first floor displays the medieval Hungarian Coronation Mantle.

The ground floor's permanent exhibit is focused on Medieval and Early Modern stone inscriptions and carvings. The final permanent exhibit is placed in the basement of the museum. This is the Roman Lapidary exhibit, which is a collection of ancient Roman stone inscriptions and carvings.

MISSION STATEMENT OF THE HUNGARIAN OPEN AIR MUSEUM The Hungarian Open Air Museum being a non-profit organisation is a permanent institute open to the public. It serves the needs of society and of its development with its main tasks to undertake research into the vernacular architecture and interior furnishings, collection of objects and spiritual relics of Hungarian language area; further, to safeguard this heritage, to publish the collected material as well as to guarantee access to it by a large public. Through its collection activities and research it contributes to the conservation of the cultural heritage of rural Hungary and to the social and cultural progress of the communities. By means of its exhibitions, publications and programs for leisure time, further through the presentation of objects, lifestyle and customs and through conveying theoretical knowledge and practical information to be applied in daily life, it helps a better understanding of vernacular traditions and contributes to the propagation of knowledge about Hungarian culture at domestic and international level.&nbsp;&nbsp;

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The 18 original or reconstructed rooms of the exhibition show the aristocratic lifestyle of the 18th and 19th centuries. The most valuable part of the palace is Hungary’s sole intact aristocratic private library.

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Architect László Vargha, a university professor, was one of the most determined supporters and promoters of the idea of the Hungarian open-air museum. He developed the museum's construction methodology and his collection was the cornerstone of the first installation plans. He first formulated his ideas for the "Hungarian Skansen" in 1937, which he considered a joint venture between ethnographers and architects. The first open-air museum in Stockholm, Skansen in Stockholm, and the Ethnographic Village in the framework of the Millennium Celebrations by ethnographer János Jankó were considered as a model for the museum to be established.

The opening of the Skanzen was helped by the historical situation and the atmosphere of the time. The consolidation of the 1960s, the shockwave-like change that began as a result of economic development, and the tsunami tsunami accelerated the destruction of folk architecture. The cultural opening and the local patriotism of the local intellectuals helped to preserve the traditions and the folk architecture. These factors also contributed to the fact that in 1965 the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party's Agitation and Propaganda Committee approved a plan for the implementation of the Open-Air Ethnographic Museum, thus giving the main political leadership the green light to start construction. On February 1, 1967, as part of the Ethnographic Museum of Budapest, the Open-Air Ethnographic Museum was established under the name Village Museum Department. The purpose of the museum is to build a single residential, farm and industrial building complex representing the various folk architectural landscapes of Hungary, which can be visited as an open-air museum

Festetics Palace and Helikon Palace Museum

It was the outstanding Swedish scientist, Arthur Haselius who established the world’s first open air museum in 1891 in Stockholm so that the characteristic buildings of various Swedish regions and ethnic groups should be preserved and presented, collected in one place as a permanent exhibition with the possibility of being visited by masses of people. It was named Skanzen after the part of town of its location and in due time it found its way into many languages, including Hungarian, as an equivalent of open air museum.

The Palm House, which opened in 2012, evokes the tradition of orangeries and tropical plant houses typical of the royal and aristocratic lifestyle. It presents the most beautiful exotic plants from Tahiti to Florida. The building of the Palm House is situated in the park of the palace. Based on the Frenchman H. Cels’ plans, it was built in 1880 by Count Tassilo Festetics II. Parts of its structure were made in Gustave Eiffel’s workshop in Paris. It was originally used for keeping the palms and the pot plants of the palace – it served as a ’plant sanitarium’.

This is where the Hungarian Holy Crown and the Coronation Insignia, among the oldest coronation regalia in Europe, have been kept since 1 January 2000 and where they are protected 24 hours a day by the Crown Guard of the Hungarian Armed Forces. The Dome Hall, which is almost 27 metres tall.

The Ópusztaszer National Heritage Park is an open-air museum of Hungarian history in Ópusztaszer, Hungary. It was established in 1982 and is most famous for being the location of the Feszty Panorama, a cyclorama by Árpád Feszty and his assistants, depicting the beginning of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin in 895. The painting was completed in 1894 for the 1000th anniversary of the event. Rotunda in Ópusztaszer; the location of the Feszty Panorama In the 1970s, a decision was made to build a heritage park in Csongrád County. Restoration of the Arrival of the Hungarians painting and the construction of a new rotunda for the cyclorama began. Construction stopped in 1979 and parts of the canvas were again stored rolled up. In 1991, a Polish group of restorers won the contract for a new restoration. Since 1995 it has been on display again, together with artificial terrain and hidden speakers playing sound effects. It is the main attraction of the heritage park of Ópusztaszer.

The Hunting Exhibition presents trophies of more than 200 game species from five continents. Most of the animals can be seen in their natural habitat.

One of Europe’s largest model railway exhibitions can be seen on the second floor of the Hunting Museum.

The Hungarian coronation insignia consists of the Holy Crown, the sceptre, the orb, and the mantle. The Holy Crown has had a lively history, having been stolen, hidden, lost, recovered, and taken abroad many times. The Holy Crown of Hungary (Hungarian: Magyar Szent Korona, Latin: Sacra Corona), also known as the Crown of Saint Stephen, was the coronation crown used by the Kingdom of Hungary for most of its existence; kings have been crowned with it since the twelfth century. The Crown was bound to the Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen. No king of Hungary was regarded as having been truly legitimate without being crowned with it. <a href="http://home.hu.inter.net/~jekely/crown.htm">http://home.hu.inter.net/~jekely/crown.htm</a>

You knew it, that Feszty Árpád (the painter of the Panorama) into fancy dress from the time of the Hungarian conquest dressed the big cavalry charge organized it in the reality with peasants his scenes on Martos? The models of all of the characters of the Panorama were living shapes: the Slovaks – according to the contemporary newspapers “svatopluk face” – sorted it out from among the Slovak building workers working in the capital.

The Coach Exhibition is a collection of more than 50 coaches, carriages and sleighs related to the aristocratic lifestyle of the 18th and 19th centuries.

Visitors can marvel at the hall of the former Chamber of Peers and now hosts conferences and meetings. The Hall boasts panels made of Slavonian oak, gold-plated decorations, excellent acoustics and a gallery of several floors. The seats have been arranged in a horseshoe shape. A huge oak podium with space for the Speaker and the Member speaking emerges at the heels. Paintings of the coats of arms of Hungary's royal families can be seen on the main wall behind the podium, with murals depicting the historical role of the nobility on both sides.&nbsp;

The furnishings of one of the open-air houses show that the makers made it very old-fashioned. In 1896, during the Millennium Celebrations, the so-called Ethnographic Village, the first period Hungarian outdoor exhibition, was built in the City Park of Budapest. Then, for decades, the case of the Hungarian Open-Air was formed, with the help of ethnographers, architects, politicians and civilians.

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