Useful Budapest travel resources
Name: Petőfi Literary Museum
Category: Museums and art
Location: 1053 Budapest, Károlyi Mihály utca 16.
This literary museum which bears the name of the famous poet Sándor Petőfi (statue on the staircase), occupies the former palace of the counts of Károlyi.… Read the rest here →
Name: Jewish Museum
Category: Museums and art
Location: 1077 Budapest, Dohány utca 2.
The history of the Jewish Community in Hungary, Jewish traditions, the holocaust are just some of the very well depicted subjects in this museum using explanatory panels (in English, Hungarian and Hebrew), with objects of worship, of ceremony, manuscripts, textiles and paintings.… Read the rest here →
Name: Telephone Museum
Category: Museums and art
Location: 1014 Budapest, Országház utca 30.
In the age of the cellular telephone, this Museum allows us to take a small leap back in time for those who are interested in this means of communication which has changed our lives.… Read the rest here →
Name: Medical History Museum
Category: Museums and art
Location: 1013 Budapest, Apród utca 1-3.
This museum is installed in the house where Ignác Fülöp Semmelweis was born (1818-1865), a gynaecologist in his state, a specialist in infectious diseases. He is buried in the garden.… Read the rest here →
Name: Transport Museum
Category: Museums and art
Location: 1146 Budapest, Városligeti krt. 11.
Internet: http://www.mmkm.hu/
This museum is closed for a renovation.
The history of the countless miraculous machines that were results of the most successful combinations of functionality and esthetics can be learned at the exhibitions covering a wide spectrum of vehicles on wheels, in water and in the air.… Read the rest here →