Hungarian National Museum - Hungarian National Museum

A fabulous museum, very informative, comprehensive and reach collections. It takes you 4-5 h to visit. Helpful & polite employees.

Huge place, if you are interested in history and not just prancing around it will take you a minimum of four hours to explore it all (took me six and towards the end I was trying to move as fast as I could). The museum is laid out on three floors, the lower floor hosting a lapidarium with tombstones dating from the centuries of Roman occupation of Pannonia as well as a treasure trove of coins and jewelry from all over Hungary. The ground floor hosts an archaeology museum presenting the history of Hungary since the paleolithic to the establishment of Hungary as a polity of Europe in the 10th century. Also on this floor there is an exhibition of a treasure trove (Seuso) which was the absolute highlight of the whole museum for me. There is also a library and a ceramics museum that could easily fill three medium museums if properly curated. The upper floor presents the history of Hungary from its' establishment as a state to the end of communism, the highlight here was the room on the 18th century. Overall, it's a big place with a tonne of artifacts, the price for all was 6000 HUF because I paid extra 1000 to be able to take photos. This extra charge is well worth it, I took about 700 pictures although more than half are bad because of poor lighting. Which leads me to the negatives: - as others have stated the museum is a bit chaotic... It really could improve by giving you at least a map if proper signs would seem as too burdening - the invigilators will not be able to help you, they don't speak anytime but Magyar, good people even though a bit eager to "impose the rules", you are very much on your own here, not even at the reception desk did I find much support, all the staff are despondent - the lighting is very poor in two thirds of the exhibition, in many places it's impossible to take pictures and even to read the text and get a good look at the exhibits, some of the text is white on glass, no clue why anyone thought that a good idea - there is a lot of bias and factual inaccuracies in some of the modern history rooms BUT less than I had expected Overall, I spent here six hours and soaked up a lot of history but this museum can find vast room for improvement

A great space filled with art, went on a public holiday but I did not have to wait to enter, there are a few rooms of paintings, and some with old decors/clothings very interesting. A must visit

Beautiful museum, but there is so much to see that easily needs about 4hours to see all. .we didn't have enough time to explore it unfortunately. Beautiful building itself too.

I got to enter and visit the museum for free on the occasion of one of the Hungarian national holidays. I would suggest not to do that if you really want to enjoy your visit, have a proper look at (and read) everything. In fact, it was so busy that even moving around was a challenge. The captions and panels are in English too, which was nice. However, I wasn't aware at first that to take pictures you have to buy an additional ticket, which will give you something to put on your jacket allowing the invigilators to know you're allowed. Otherwise, they'll approach you and tell you anyway, like it happened to me. The most interesting thing was the exhibition about the Seuso treasure, highly recommend!

Really nice afternoon if you feel like learning all about Hungary’s history. Offers audio tours and tickets aren’t expensive. (Not sure if Audio tours are in multiple languages, but there are multiple languages next to each exhibit to allow for travellers)

This is a Grand museum. The building itself is one of the exhibits. We bought the full access tickets and spent more than 3 hours exploring the exhibits and didn't see everything. The exhibits go from pre-history through the communists period. There is a cafeteria which is good for taking a break and a coffee bar in the main entrance.

Nice permanent exposition. A very beautiful library room and the next one with the old porcelain! You have to buy an additional ticket to be able to make photos, even on iPhone.