Budapest museums · Art
Art · since 1987
Vasarely Museum
original name: Vasarely Múzeum
Vasarely’s estate went to three places: the Fondation Vasarely at Aix-en-Provence, the museum in his native Pécs, and this collection in Óbuda. The Budapest holding gives a connected road from the flat advertising graphics of the 1930s to the optical grids, which the Aix foundation, built around its great halls, does not. There is no reason to come before it opens, and the museum does not say when that will be.
Minimum route
1 hour
Founded
1987
The museum is currently closed to visitors.
What to see
The permanent display of Victor Vasarely’s work, from the early graphic art of his Paris years to the large optical compositions of the 1960s and 1970s. While the rooms are closed none of it can be seen.
Reference
About the museum
Victor Vasarely was born in Pécs as Győző Vásárhelyi, left for Paris in 1930 and became one of the founders of optical art there. In the 1980s he gave Hungary a large part of his estate; the Budapest share has occupied a wing of the Zichy palace in Óbuda since 1987. The permanent display has been shut since 9 February.
Getting in
How to get there
The HÉV railway to Szentlélek tér; the entrance is off the courtyard of the Zichy palace.
Opening times
The museum is closed to visitors.
Closed since 9 February. The museum has given no date for reopening.
When to go
While the museum is closed there is no reason to come.
Contacts
Nearby
- Kassák Museum 50 m from here
- Kiscelli Museum 1.5 km from here
- Aquincum 2.6 km from here
If this moved you
In the same city
If the optical grids make you ask where this Hungarian school began, the beginning lies in the next wing of the same Zichy palace: Lajos Kassák’s journals and typography.
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