Budapest museums · Art
Art · since 1919
Hopp Museum
Ferenc Hopp Museum of Asiatic Arts
original name: Hopp Ferenc Ázsiai Művészeti Múzeum
Nowhere else in Hungary is Asian art gathered at all, which sets the terms of comparison: the Hopp Museum has to be measured against the Guimet in Paris and the Berlin collections, its neighbours in the city left aside. Against those it is small — four thousand founding objects to their tens of thousands. The Japanese and Chinese holdings are the strongest; the Indian part falls clearly behind London and Berlin. In the summer of 2026 there is nothing to see indoors, and that is the first thing to know about it.
Minimum route
1–1.5 hours
Founded
1919
The museum is currently closed to visitors.
What to see
Ferenc Hopp’s own collection, four thousand objects brought back from five voyages round the world. Chinese and Japanese holdings were added later, along with Indian sculpture and Buddhist painting from Tibet and Nepal. The garden with its Asian gate and stone lanterns stays open even when the house does not.
Reference
About the museum
The museum was set up in 1919 under the will of Ferenc Hopp (1833–1919), an optical goods dealer who went round the world five times and left the city his house on Andrássy út together with his Asian collection. It is now a branch of the Museum of Fine Arts. In the summer of 2026 the galleries are shut while the garden and the library stay open.
Getting in
How to get there
Metro M1 to Bajza utca, then two houses along Andrássy út towards Heroes’ Square.
Opening timeschecked on 22 August 2026, the museum website
| Mon, Tue | closed |
| Wed–Sun today | 10:00–16:00 |
The building is closed until the end of September 2026. The garden is open Wednesday to Sunday, 10:00–16:00; the library on Wednesday and Thursday, 10:00–15:00.
When to go
While the house is shut, the garden is the reason to come: Wednesday to Sunday, until 16:00.
Contacts
Nearby
- Ráth Villa 250 m from here
- Museum of Ethnography 550 m from here
- Museum of Fine Arts 600 m from here
If this moved you
In the same city
If the Asian collection leaves you asking who brought it here and on whose money, the same museum keeps the European half of that story by Heroes’ Square.
Abroad
If an Asian collection in a country without colonies surprised you, Moscow’s grew the same way — out of private hauls and nationalised cabinets.
The Museum of Oriental Art · Moscow
· No. 111