Location: Terézváros
Top Things to do in Terézváros
What to do and see in Terézváros, Central Hungary: The Best Museums
Over 15 million gallons of water bubble daily into Budapest's 118 springs and boreholes. The city of spas offers an astounding array of baths, from the sparkling Gellert Baths to the vast 1913 neo-baroque Szechenyi Spa to Rudas Spa, a dramatic 16th-century Turkish pool with original Ottoman architecture. The "Queen of the Danube" is also steeped in history, culture and natural beauty. Get your camera ready for the Roman ruins of the Aquincum Museum, Heroes' Square and Statue Park, and the 300-foot dome of St. Stephen's Basilica.
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1. Kovacs Gabor Collection
2. Post Office Museum (Postamuzeum)
3. Zelnik Istvan Southeast Asian Gold Museum
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4.5 based on 39 reviews
4. Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center
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4.5 based on 107 reviews
Reviewed By 21ingos - Karlsruhe, Germany
The museum is very small - only seven or eight rooms - but it is worth visiting repeatedly every year because they regularly change all their exhibitions. Only the two rooms about Robert Capa are on permanent display. Capa created timeless classics - probably no need to say more about him. But i found the temporary exhibitions even more impressive. They typically present the oeuvres of one or two Hungarian photographers from specific epoques of photography - this time it was Géza Perneczky's (*1936) conceptual photography and Katalin Nádor (1938-2018), who worked as a museum photographer in Pécs and devolped a strikingly original style of experimental and lyrical artistic photography in parallel, playing with light, surfaces, multiple exposure and other creative techniques. The exhibition catalogue says, quite to the point: "Her secret artistic life reflected the life of creative women working in rural Hungary during the years of Socialism: her work as an artist evolved quietly, without any attention or acknowledgment from the professional scene, in spite of her peculiar, sensual experimentations, and the unique subjective abstraction characteristic of her photographs." Yet the best part of the museum - at least this year, and at least according to my taste - was the presentation of the two winners of the Capa Grand Prize 2019: Antal Bánhegyesy's photos of orthodox churches and christian life in Romania, almost every photo stunning in a different way: some just magnificient, some exhibiting incredible contrast in architecture or other motives, some wonderfully ironic. And then András D. Hajdú's photo series "Szofi’s Life", following the life of young Hungarian Gypsy girl and her family from her mother's pregnancy to kindergarden age (to be continued), presented in an unconventional style that well matches the subject. This is more than just a museum, it is probably even more important for fostering and promoting modern Hungarian photography through the Grand Prize.
5. Customs and Tax History Museum
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4.5 based on 7 reviews
6. Rath Gyorgy Museum
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4.5 based on 15 reviews
Reviewed By BogsideBunny - Glasgow, United Kingdom
Have been in Budapest several times over the years and wanted to revisit the Applied Arts Museum which I had gone to on my very first trip. Discovering it was closed for a major overhaul, the curators have moved some of the exhibits to this lovely townhouse and have created a compact exhibition leaning heavily on the Art Nouveau period. There are exhibits not only from Hungary but also from some of the other countries where Art Nouveau had a strong impact - France, Austria, Holland, Scandinavia and even Scotland, my homeland, gets a mention thanks to CRM and The Four. I found the Hungarian exhibits particularly interesting as I didn't realise there was such a big influence of AN here. The lady at the cash desk gave me a very interesting book which gave details of all the exhibits which I bought at the end as a souvenir. Really enjoyed this wee museum, guess the content is right up my street but for anyone with even a passing interest in Art Nouveau it's not the worst place to pass an hour. Bit off the beaten track but for me, definitely worth the effort!
7. PALINKA MUSEUM SHOP BAR
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4.5 based on 55 reviews
Palinka is one of the world’s unique treasures. The time to introduce it to the world in a fitting way is here. We believe that this royal distillate has been ripe for the world to get to know it and love it for a long time. This is a journey through the world of palinka. Via the use of the afore mentioned digital tools you shall be able to make real palinka for yourself. The array of tastes range from plum, apricot, elderfberries, wild cherry all the way to fruits such as raspberry. It is really worth getting to know them – it is highly recommended to taste them. In the shop: there are 12 distillate facilities, more than 30 fruits result in 100 different products. Our expert staff will be able to help you choose whichever fits your personality and character the most appropriately. You can also choose from other Hungaricums such as Rex Ciborum, goose liver pate, contemporary designer gifts as well as a special range of palinka themed garments.
Reviewed By hadishas2018 - Budapest, Hungary
Friendly and professional staff, tried a shot of palinka after the tour and smell a few interesting vegetable palinkas afterwards
8. Liszt Ferenc Memorial Museum
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4.0 based on 154 reviews
Reviewed By EdmundR_11 - St. Andrews, United Kingdom
Note that Ferenc is the Hungarian version of the German Franz, and the English Francis, so this museum is for the composer better known as Franz Liszt. The Museum is one level up and you leave your bags (no charge) at the level where you enter. Opposite the place where you leave the bags is the Liszt Research Society and here there are other items relating to Liszt displayed. We chose to visit the Museum first and then look at this second display of our way out. (One thing to note is that the Ladies toilet is entered from the Liszt Research Society display area.) There is a lady selling tickets for entry to the Museum. The Liszt Ferenc Memorial Museum has only three rooms but there is a remarkable amount of interesting objects packed into these rooms. There are good information boards (in English), letters from and to Liszt, pictures of composers contemporary with Liszt, items which belonged to Liszt etc. For example on display is his bed, his travel bag, his religious items, a cross he took with him when travelling, several pianos, an organ, a desk with a keyboard, an ornate music stand he was presented with, etc etc. Where one buys the entry tickets, there is for sale sheet music of Liszt, CDs of Liszt's music etc. We bought two CDs.
9. House of Terror Museum
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4.0 based on 10,632 reviews
A museum devoted to various historical terror regimes and practices.
Reviewed By alexburns28 - Walkerston, Australia
This is a must do in Budapest, it would have to be the best experience I have had this trip, and it’s been a fantastic 6 weeks in Europe. This museum brings home the pain, courage and hope of Hungary’s modern history and people, ensure you pay the little extra for the audio guide- it is worth it for the full experience. I would even do this tour again when I return to Hungary. Breath taking, heart wrenching and sad.
10. Ernst Museum
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4.0 based on 9 reviews
