Useful Budapest travel resources
Name: Post Office Museum
Category: Museums and art
Location: 1061 Budapest, Benczúr utca 27.
Two post-boxes with ancient lettering announce this Post Office Museum. Entry may be gained from an iner courtyard which is worth a look at by itself for its decorated galleries .… Read the rest here →
Name: Kodály Zoltán Museum
Category: Museums and art
Location: 1062 Budapest, Andrássy út 89.
With Béla Bartók, Zoltán Kodály deeply changed Hungarian music in the 20th Century The apartment that he lived in from March 1924 till his death in March 1967 contains some mementoes of the great composer: pianos, library and books, bureau, scores.… Read the rest here →
Name: Far East Museum
Category: Museums and art
Location: 1062 Budapest, Andrássy út 103.
Internet: http://www.hoppmuzeum.hu
Ferenc Hopp (1833-1919), an optician and great traveller within his state, donated to the state the objects brought back from many trips to Asia.… Read the rest here →
Name: Art Gallery
Category: Museums and art
Location: 1146 Budapest, Dózsa György út 37.
The Art Gallery of is a building with the look of a Greek temple. Look out for the mosaics on the façade. It is reserved for temporary exhibitions, mainly for contemporary art.… Read the rest here →
Name: Museum of the Metro
Category: Museums and art
Location: 1052 Budapest, Deák tér
In Deák ter metro station, take a tour around this small museum. An old station with its ticket-puncher will greet you. Along the platform you can follow, with the aid of some explanatory signs and old photographs, the construction of the first line in Europe inaugurated on 2nd May 1896.… Read the rest here →