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Buda Castle Museum - Budapest History Museum

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The Buda Castle Museum, a division of the Budapest History Museum, gives an overview of the city's 2000-year history, from Roman times to the present day. The museum is located in restored palace rooms, over four floors.

The museum features artefacts like Gothic statues of courtiers, 14th-century Hungarian tapestries, ceramics, textiles, utensils, rare documents, and more. In the Royal Chapel, the visitors can admire a number of significant Gothic sculptures, as well as a beautiful 15th-century triptych.

A series of rooms from the medieval castle were unearthed and reconstructed during the post-war rebuilding of Buda Castle in 1958–62. They are now part of the permanent exhibition. 

The Budapest History Museum consists of the Castle Museum, the Aquincum Museum, the Kiscell Museum and the Budapest Gallery. The Museum collects and preserves archaeological and historical objects as well as fine art dating from Prehistoric times up to the present day from Hungary and Budapest. 

All four museums can be found on Tripendy.

Buda Castle: The oldest part of the present-day palace dates back to the 14th century, the reign of kings Louis the Great, Sigismund, and Matthias Corvinus (1458–1490). The state of the building badly deteriorated during the Turkish occupation starting in 1541, and during the Battle of Buda in 1686. The restoration, in the then fashionable Baroque style, began during the reign of Queen Maria Theresa in 1749. At the end of the 19th century the palace was expanded to the plans of architects Miklós Ybl and Alajos Hauszmann, and later neo-Baroque ornamentation was also added. During World War II the building was again severely damaged; its reconstruction began in the 1960s.

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Buda Castle Museum - Budapest History Museum

Szent György tér 2
Buda Castle Building "E"
Budapest
1014
Hungary