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original name: BTM Aquincumi Múzeum és Régészeti Park
significant
Come for the organ. Roman instruments are known in quantity from images; one has survived, and it is here — Naples has none, nor London, nor Cologne. The excavation itself is modest against Pompeii and Ostia: walls rise half a metre, there are no upper floors, and the town has to be imagined from plans. Anyone giving a day to Roman Hungary would do better to start at the National Museum lapidarium and finish here.
Minimum route
1.5–2.5 hours
Founded
1894
Ticket
from HUF 3,000
Today
10:00–18:00
What to see
The water organ of AD 228, the only Roman organ to survive anywhere. Lajos Nagy found it in 1931 in the cellar of a burnt-out fire station: more than four hundred bronze parts. A Latin plate names the buyer, Gaius Iulius Viatorinus, commander of the fire brigade, who bought the instrument for his men. The tombstone of Aelia Sabina, wife of an organist, carries an inscription about her playing. Mosaic floors and a mithraeum stand out on the dig; the Painter’s House keeps its wall painting.
Minimum route — 1.5–2.5 hours for the essentials
20 minutes in the organ room. 25 minutes for the museum display, the mosaics and the tombstones. 40 minutes on the dig: main street, baths, market, mithraeum. 15 minutes at the Painter’s House.
Reference
About the museum
Aquincum was the capital of Lower Pannonia; the civil town lay here, the legionary fortress further south under present-day Óbuda. The museum opened in 1894 on the dig itself, and the dig is still the main thing: streets, house foundations, water pipes, baths, a market. Inside are the finds from those same streets.
Getting in
Addresschecked on 22 August 2026, the museum website
Szentendrei út 135, 1031 Budapest
How to get there
The HÉV suburban railway from Batthyány tér to the Aquincum stop; the park begins beyond the platform.
Opening times Opening hours depend on the season: check before you set out.checked on 22 August 2026, the museum website
open now until 18:00
Mon
closed
Tue–Sun today
10:00–18:00
These hours are current from 1 April to 31 October; after that the timetable changes.
Closed on Mondays. From 1 April to 31 October it stays open until 18:00, from 1 November to 31 March until 16:00. The open excavation closes in rain and ice.
Ticketschecked on 22 August 2026, the museum website
Full ticket 3,000 forints, reduced 1,500.
from HUF 3,000
tickets online
When to go
A dry day between April and October, we would say: in winter the dig closes in bad weather, and half of what there is to see lies in the open.
If Roman Pannonia has caught you, the inscribed stones and sarcophagi of the same province fill the basement of the National Museum — more of them there than on the dig.