Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum (Hungarian National Museum)

Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum (Hungarian National Museum) Review

The permanent collection here takes you a stimulating journey into the everyday Hungarian experience, from the recent to the more distant past. Among the highlights are the 20th-century exhibit, including an early cinema replete with films of the era, an old schoolroom, a 1960s apartment interior, and a host of historical posters—all of which brings you right up to the end of communism and the much-celebrated exodus of Russian troops. Older attractions including masterworks of cabinetmaking and woodcarving (e.g., church pews from Nyírbátor and Transylvania); a piano that belonged to both Beethoven and Liszt; and, goldsmithing treasures.