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Budapest museums · History
History · since 1935

Kiscelli Museum

Kiscelli Museum and Municipal Picture Gallery
original name: BTM Kiscelli Múzeum – Fővárosi Képtár
for enthusiasts
Kiscelli answers the question of what a city is made of: shop signs, a pharmacy, a printing press, furniture, a century of painting. No other museum in Budapest holds such a gathering of urban things, and about ten people a day climb the hill to see it. The ruined nave is the second reason: bare walls and sky instead of a vault do something to modern sculpture that a white room does not. Look elsewhere for the Middle Ages and for Rome — they are at the Castle Museum and at Aquincum.
Minimum route
1.5–2.5 hours
Founded
1935
Ticket
from HUF 3,000
Today
10:00–18:00
What to see

The Columbia press of the Landerer and Heckenast printing house, on which the National Song and the Twelve Points were printed on 15 March 1848. The collection of guild signs, the only one of its kind in Hungary. The Golden Lion pharmacy, its 1830s fittings moved here whole. The ruined nave of the church, where contemporary art is shown.

Minimum route — 1.5–2.5 hours for the essentials

30 minutes among the guild signs and the pharmacy. 20 minutes at the press and the printing room. 30 minutes in the Municipal Picture Gallery. 20 minutes in the ruined nave.

Reference
About the museum
The museum occupies a former Trinitarian monastery above Óbuda, built in the middle of the eighteenth century and later the villa of Miksa Schmidt, a furniture manufacturer who left the house to the city. Two things are joined here: the city collection of Budapest and the Municipal Picture Gallery of twentieth-century Hungarian art. The nave of the monastery church has stood without roof or windows since 1945 and serves as an exhibition hall.
Getting in
Address
Kiscelli utca 108, 1037 Budapest
How to get there
Tram 17 to Kiscelli utca, then about ten minutes uphill on foot. Bus 165 stops closer.
Opening timeschecked on 22 August 2026, the museum website
open now until 18:00
Monclosed
Tue–Sun today10:00–18:00
Closed on Mondays. Last admission 17:30.
Ticketschecked on 22 August 2026, the museum website
Full ticket 3,000 forints, reduced 1,500. The BTM+ pass at 5,500 forints is good for thirty days at every branch of the Budapest History Museum.
from HUF 3,000
tickets online
When to go
A weekday, we would say: the place is empty on any day, and the climb is hard in the heat.
Contacts
kiscellimuzeum.hu · +36 1 388 8560 · kapcsolat@kiscellimuzeum.hu
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