Hungarian National Museum
The Hungarian National Museum was founded in 1802 and is the national museum for the history, art, and archaeology of Hungary, including areas not within Hungary's modern borders, such as Transylvania; it is separate to the collection of international art in the Hungarian National Gallery.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Museum
- Description: national museum for the history, art and archaeology of Hungary
- Also known as: “Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Petőfi Literary Museum and Dohány Street Synagogue.
Petőfi Literary Museum
Museum
The Petőfi Literary Museum is a major Hungarian museum in Budapest. It was founded in 1954, as the successor organisation to Petőfi House and, today, is housed in the former Károlyi Palace. It was named to honour the memory of Sándor Petőfi. Petőfi Literary Museum is situated 250 metres west of Hungarian National Museum.
Dohány Street Synagogue
Synagogue
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The Dohány Street Synagogue, also known as the Great Synagogue or Tabakgasse Synagogue, is a Neolog Jewish congregation and synagogue, located on Dohány Street in Erzsébetváros of Budapest, Hungary. Dohány Street Synagogue is situated 490 metres north of Hungarian National Museum.
Great Market Hall
Marketplace
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The Great Market Hall or Central Market Hall, Market Hall I is the largest and oldest indoor market in Budapest, Hungary. The idea of building such a large market hall arose from the first mayor of Budapest, Károly Kamermayer, and it was his largest investment. Great Market Hall is situated 590 metres south of Hungarian National Museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Budapest’s Palace District and Pest.
Budapest’s Palace District
Suburb
Budapest's Palotanegyed forms an inner part of Pest, the eastern half of Budapest. Known until the communist period as the ‘Magnates’ Quarter’, it consists of the most westerly part of the city's Eighth District, or Józsefváros, which was named on 7 November 1777 after Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria, who reigned 1765-1790.
Pest
Suburb
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Pest is the part of Budapest, the capital city of Hungary, that lies on the eastern bank of the Danube. Pest was administratively unified with Buda and Óbuda in 1873.
Belváros
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Belváros or Downtown is the V. District of Budapest. It consists of two historic neighbourhoods with well-defined borders within the V. District - Lipótváros in the north includes the Parliament and many governmental buildings, Szent István Basilica and some museums, while the southern part is mostly high-class accommodations, shops and nightlife area.
Hungarian National Museum
- Categories: national museum, museum building, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Budapest, Central Hungary, Hungary, Central Europe, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Hungarian National Museum” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “المتحف الوطني المجري”
- Arabic: “المتحف الوطني الهنغاري”
- Arabic: “متحف هنغاريا الوطني”
- Armenian: “Հունգարիայի ազգային թանգարան”
- Azerbaijani: “Macarıstan Milli Muzeyi”
- Bashkir: “Венгрия милли музейы”
- Basque: “Hungariako Museo Nazionala”
- Belarusian: “Венгерскі нацыянальны музей”
- Belarusian: “Вугорскі нацыянальны музэй”
- Bulgarian: “Унгарски национален музей”
- Catalan: “Museu Nacional Hongarès”
- Chinese: “匈牙利国家博物馆”
- Chinese: “匈牙利國家博物館”
- Czech: “Maďarské národní muzeum”
- Czech: “Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum”
- Dutch: “Hongaars Nationaal Museum”
- Dutch: “Hongaarse Nationaal Museum”
- Dutch: “Magyar Nemzeti Muzeum”
- Dutch: “Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum”
- Dutch: “Nationaal Museum (Hongarije)”
- Dutch: “Nationaal Museum”
- Esperanto: “Hungara Nacia Muzeo”
- Esperanto: “Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum”
- Estonian: “Ungari Rahvusmuuseum”
- Finnish: “Unkarin kansallismuseo”
- French: “Musée national hongrois”
- German: “Magyar Nemzeti Muzeum”
- German: “Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum”
- German: “Nationalmuseum”
- German: “Ungarisches Nationalmuseum”
- Hebrew: “המוזיאון הלאומי של הונגריה”
- Hungarian: “Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum”
- Hungarian: “MNM”
- Indonesian: “Museum Nasional Hongaria”
- Indonesian: “Museum Nasional Hungaria”
- Irish: “Músaem Náisiúnta na hUngáire”
- Italian: “Museo nazionale ungherese”
- Japanese: “ハンガリー国立博物館”
- Korean: “헝가리 국립박물관”
- Latvian: “Ungārijas Nacionālais muzejs”
- Macedonian: “Унгарски национален музеј”
- Malay: “Muzium Negara Hungary”
- Persian: “موزه ملی مجارستان”
- Polish: “Węgierskie Muzeum Narodowe”
- Portuguese: “Museu Nacional Húngaro”
- Romanian: “Muzeul Național al Ungariei”
- Russian: “Венгерский национальный музей”
- Russian: “Национальный музей Венгрии”
- Serbian: “Мађарски национални музеј”
- Spanish: “Museo Nacional de Hungria”
- Spanish: “Museo Nacional de Hungría”
- Spanish: “Museo Nacional Hungaro”
- Spanish: “Museo Nacional Húngaro”
- Turkish: “Macar Ulusal Müzesi”
- Ukrainian: “Національний музей”
- Ukrainian: “Угорський національний музей”
- Welsh: “Amgueddfa Genedlaethol Hwngari”
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