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Nearest museums · 13
History · since 1935

Kiscelli Museum

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.

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.

5.1 km from here · Kiscelli utca 108, 1037 Budapest · ·
· No. 110
Art · since 1976

Kassák Museum

for enthusiasts
The Hungarian avant-garde was largely made by one man, and that man is gathered here. Neither the National Gallery nor the Ludwig shows him whole: they hang single works, while here the whole labour lies together, journals and typography included. The museum is small and asks for preparation: without some idea of the European avant-garde of the 1920s half of what hangs will stay paper on a wall. A reader who knows Russian constructivism and the LEF group will find the ground familiar — Kassák read them and argued with them.

Kassák’s journals, A Tett and MA, in issues he set and laid out himself. Paintings and collages by his own hand, from the activism of the 1920s to the late constructions. Letters and papers about his collisions with authority, first the Horthy regime and then the communist one.

5.3 km from here · Fő tér 1, 1033 Budapest (Zichy palace) · ·
· No. 122
History · since 1894

Aquincum

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Come for the organ. Roman instruments are known in quantity from images; one has survived, and it is here — Naples has none, nor London, nor Cologne. The excavation itself is modest against Pompeii and Ostia: walls rise half a metre, there are no upper floors, and the town has to be imagined from plans. Anyone giving a day to Roman Hungary would do better to start at the National Museum lapidarium and finish here.

The water organ of AD 228, the only Roman organ to survive anywhere. Lajos Nagy found it in 1931 in the cellar of a burnt-out fire station: more than four hundred bronze parts. A Latin plate names the buyer, Gaius Iulius Viatorinus, commander of the fire brigade, who bought the instrument for his men. The tombstone of Aelia Sabina, wife of an organist, carries an inscription about her playing. Mosaic floors and a mithraeum stand out on the dig; the Painter’s House keeps its wall painting.

7.9 km from here · Szentendrei út 135, 1031 Budapest · ·
· No. 108

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