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 (3200/1600Ft per adult/student or child) will get you into everything. Free English-language tours of key galleries depart at 11am Tuesday to Saturday, 2pm Tuesday and Friday, 1pm Wednesday and Thursday and 11am Saturday.