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original name: Budapesti Történeti Múzeum – Vármúzeum
for enthusiasts
The Buda statues are a find that changed what is known about court sculpture in Central Europe around 1400; nothing of that circle survives in comparable number or condition in Vienna or Prague. The rest is weaker: the city history is told briefly, and the palace was rebuilt after the war in a way that makes its architecture hard to read. One room is the reason to come.
Minimum route
1.5–2 hours
Founded
1887
Ticket
from HUF 3,900
Today
10:00–18:00
What to see
Gothic statues from the royal palace: more than sixty torsos that can be reassembled and thousands of fragments, found in 1974 in the filled-in cellar of a burgher house in front of the palace. They were carved for the court of Sigismund of Luxembourg (1387–1437) by masters who had come from several parts of Europe; some went into the ground half finished. The Gothic Hall keeps its seat niches. The palace chapel and the cellars beneath it.
Minimum route — 1.5–2 hours for the essentials
35 minutes with the Gothic statues. 20 minutes in the Gothic Hall and the chapel. 20 minutes among the cellars and the walls of the medieval palace.
Reference
About the museum
The Budapest History Museum was founded in 1887. Its Castle Museum occupies the southern wing of the Buda palace and shows the medieval palace from below: Gothic halls, cellars and a chapel, dug out after the war from under the Baroque rebuilding. Excavation began in 1948 and brought back what had been given up for lost.
Getting in
Address
Szent György tér 2, building E, 1014 Budapest (Buda Castle)
How to get there
Bus 16 to Dísz tér, or the funicular from the Chain Bridge, then across the palace courtyard to the southern wing.
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. Open until 18:00 from 1 April to 31 October, until 16:00 from 1 November to 31 March.
Ticketschecked on 22 August 2026, the museum website
Full ticket 3,900 forints. The BTM+ pass at 5,500 forints admits the holder once to every branch of the Budapest History Museum within thirty days.
from HUF 3,900
tickets online
When to go
A weekday after three, we would say: by then the coach groups have gone back down from the Castle Hill.