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House museums · since 1986
Liszt Museum
Ferenc Liszt Memorial Museum
original name: Liszt Ferenc Emlékmúzeum és Kutatóközpont
Three Liszt flats are kept as they were: the Altenburg at Weimar, the Villa d’Este at Tivoli and this one. Budapest holds the setting of his last five years and stands in the house where he taught, so the objects here belong to his working life. There is no collection to speak of: three rooms, and an hour walks them. Anyone after Liszt’s manuscripts must go to Weimar.
Minimum route
45–75 minutes
Founded
1986
Today
09:00–17:00
What to see
Liszt’s instruments, the pianos he played and taught on in these rooms. The desk and furniture of the flat, left where they stood. The library and scores carrying his markings. The chamber hall of the old Academy one floor below, where morning concerts are given on Saturdays at 11:00 from September.
Minimum route — 45–75 minutes for the essentials
25 minutes through the three rooms. 15 minutes with the instruments and the scores. 20 minutes in the chamber hall if a Saturday matinee is on.
Reference
About the museum
Ferenc Liszt kept this flat in the old Academy of Music from January 1881 until his death in 1886, coming to Budapest for the winter months. The museum opened in September 1986, a century after he died, and shares the house with the Academy’s Liszt research centre.
Getting in
How to get there
Metro M1 to Vörösmarty utca; the door is on the corner. The flat is on the first floor of the old Academy of Music.
Opening timeschecked on 22 August 2026, the museum website
closed for the day
| Mon–Fri | 10:00–18:00 |
| Sat today | 09:00–17:00 |
| Sun | closed |
Closed on Sundays and public holidays other than national ones. Weekdays 10:00–18:00; Saturdays and national holidays 9:00–17:00.
When to go
A Saturday towards eleven, we would say: the flat opens at nine and the playing starts downstairs at that hour.
Contacts
Nearby
- Stamp Museum 550 m from here
- Ráth Villa 600 m from here
- Museum of Ethnography 1.2 km from here
If this moved you
Abroad
If a composer’s flat with his own instruments moved you, Moscow keeps another: Scriabin’s, with his Bechstein and the light-and-music machine built to his design.
The Scriabin Museum · Moscow
· No. 114