Kiscelli Museum & Municipal Picture Gallery

Housed in an 18th-century monastery, later a barracks that was badly damaged in WWII and again in 1956, this museum contains two excellent sections. The Contemporary City History Collection (Újkori Várostörténeti Gyűjtemény) in which you’ll find a complete 19th-century apothecary moved here from Kálvin tér; a wonderful assembly of ancient signboards advertising shops and other trades; and rooms (both public and private) furnished in Empire, Biedermeier and art nouveau furniture and bric-a-brac. The Municipal Picture Gallery (Fővárosi Képtár), with its impressive coll­ection of art works by József Rippl-Rónai, Lajos Tihanyi, István Csók and Béla Czóbel (among others) is upstairs.