Things to do in Hungary, Hungary: The Best Art Museums

The former home of a famous artist couple, Imre Ámos and Margit Anna, now features a collection of their work representing the beginning of Expressionist painting in Hungary.

The Hefter Gallery is located on a World Heritage site, in the direct vicinity of the Benedictine Arch Abbey of Pannonhalma. The building has interior and exterior areas where as part of permanent and temporary exhibitions, you can see works of glass sculpture, glass painting and related arts made by the best Hungarian and foreign artists. The gallery has an own collection, continuously expanding, which can be visited as permanent exhibition. It is currently the only gallery in Hungary dedicated to fields of art related to glass. High quality rarities and jewellery made by our studio and the exhibiting artists are available for viewing and purchasing in our Shop.

The museum take place in a typical edict of tolerance church, built in the second half of the 18th century. Our museum opened in May 2018. The exhibition "Shelter in Eternity" is an unusual one, as it breaks with the traditional historical, chronological structure and has a completely new thematic approach. It is based on the biblical guide, and begins with the animation of the creation story and with the scene of the Fall of Man. As before, the theological thoughts on the rollers are still about the fundamental eternal issues of the Christian message. By presenting available tangible heritage and applying religious, ethnographical approach, the surfaces of the furniture is used to introduce popular piety. The highlighted stations marked with grape clusters are for children, and present topics in a rather entertaining and playful way. The other exhibition is the egyptian exhibition called Hori's secrets. An egyptian coffin and mummy display here, which were found in Akhmim.

The Leskowsky Musical Instrument Museum is one of a kind in Hungary. We have hunderds of musical instruments from around the world amongst the traditional Hungarian instruments take a big and important place. This is not a usual museum. Here you can touch, feel, play most of the instruments. You can sit on the cushions on the carpet or even lay down if you like. Every visitor experiences a one hour live-music presentation in a relaxed, funny manner about the collection. Yes, in English, too!

The 19th-century building of the former sawmill is one of the most interesting and special exhibition venues in Hungary. Based on a idea of painters Dezso Korniss and Pal Deim, the gallery was opened to the general public on the initiative of For Szentendre’s Art Foundation in cooperation with the Szentendre Architects’ Club in June 1999. The aim of the founders was to establish a modern artists’

An extensive collection of Margit Kovacs' ceramic works featuring a unique synthesis of folk and Byzantine motifs.

Largest museum of the Hungarian Roman Catholic Church features masterpieces of Hungarian medieval panel painting, sculptures and 12th- to 15th-century Italian paintings.