Hungarian National Gallery

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  • Address
    Royal Palace, Wings B, C & D, Magyar Nemzeti Galéria, Castel Hill
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  • Phone
    201 9082
  • Transport
    bus: 16
  • Tue-Sun 10:00 - 18:00

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Lonely Planet review

The Hungarian National Gallery is an overwhelmingly large collection that traces the development of Hungarian art from the 10th century to the present day. The largest collections include medieval and Renaissance stonework, Gothic wooden sculptures and panel paintings, late-Gothic winged altars, and late Renaissance and baroque art.

The museum also has an important collection of Hungarian paintings and sculpture from the 19th and 20th centuries. You may not recognise many names, but keep an eye open for the harrowing depictions of war and the dispossessed by László Mednyánszky, the unique portraits by József Rippl-Rónai, the mammoth canvases by Tivadar Csontváry, the paintings of carnivals by the modern artist Vilmos Aba-Novák and works by the realist Mihály Munkácsy, the 'painter of the puszta (farm plains)'.