Gallery sights in Budapest
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Museum of Fine Arts
The Museum of Fine Arts, on the northern side of Hősök tere, houses the city’s most outstanding collection of foreign art works in a building dating from 1906. The Old Masters collection is the most complete, with thousands of works from the Dutch and Flemish, Spanish, Italian, German, French and British schools between the 13th and 18th centuries, including seven paintings by El Greco. Other sections include Egyptian and Greco-Roman artefacts and 19th- and 20th-century paintings, watercolours, graphics and sculpture, including some important impressionist works. There’s usually a couple of excellent temporary exhibitions going on at any given time; a combined ticket (320…
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Zsigmond Kun Folk Art Collection
This charming branch of the Óbuda Museum displays a collection of folk art amassed by a wealthy ethnographer in his 18th-century town house. Most of the pottery and ceramics are from Mezőtúr near the Tisza River, but there are also some rare Moravian and Swabian pieces as well as Transylvanian furniture and textiles. The attendants are very proud of the collection so be prepared for some lengthy explanations. And don’t ask about the priceless tile stove that a workman knocked over a couple of years back (unless you want to see a grown man cry).
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Imre Varga Exhibition House
Part of the Budapest Gallery, this exhibition space includes sculptures, statues, medals and drawings by octogenarian Varga, one of Hungary’s foremost sculptors. Like others before him, notably Zsigmond Kisfaludi Strobl, Varga seems to have sat on both sides of the fence politically for decades – sculpting Béla Kun and Lenin as dextrously as he did St Stephen, Béla Bartók and even Imre Nagy. But his work always remains fresh and is never derivative.
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Hungarian National Gallery
The Hungarian National Gallery is an overwhelming collection spread across four floors that traces Hungarian art from the 11th century to the present. The largest collections include medieval and Renaissance stonework, Gothic wooden sculptures and panel paintings, late-Gothic winged altars, and late Renaissance and baroque art.
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Műcsarnok
Műcsarnok (Palace of Art) is among the city's largest exhibition spaces, and hosts temporary exhibitions of works by Hungarian and foreign artists in fine and applied art, photography and design. A 3-D film that whisks you around Hungary in 25 minutes.
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Budapest Gallery
Opposite the Óbuda Synagogue, the Budapest Gallery hosts some interesting avant-garde exhibitions. It also has a standing exhibit of works by Pál Pátzay, whose sculptures can be seen throughout the city.
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