The museum has a permanent exhibition titled 'Art Nouveau – a Hungarian Perspective', displaying the finest selection of the Museum of Applied Arts’ Art Nouveau collection including British, the Austrian and the French schools of Art Nouveau.

Ráth left all his worldly goods to his wife, Gizella Melcsiczky, who carried out his wish that his art collection be given to the Museum of Applied Arts after his death, with the stipulation that they would form “the National Hungarian György Ráth Museum constituting an auxiliary part of the Museum of Applied Arts, which is inalienable and must be maintained together with its collection”.

Thus, In November 1906, the new museum was opened and on 8 January 1907 it was visited by Emperor Franz Joseph I.

The collection was broken up after World War II by the communists.

The reopening of the villa since 2018 showcasing the permanent exhibition, has reestablished as far as possible the memory of György Ráth.

The exhibition is complemented with specialist and subjective guided tours, as well as by lectures, workshops and museum educational programmes.

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