Budapest History Museum (Budapesti Toreneti Muzeum)

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Besides the incredibly beautiful architecture and the sweeping skylines along the Danube, Buda and Pest have a lot of other amazing things to offer. Here are a few of our favorites:

1.) There's a wonderful Boba tea place run by a lovely vietnamese couple in a pedestrian underpass near the metro. Megan also happens to be …

... it's painted frescos, and ontothe palace, where S and T went around teh National gallery while C saw the national history museum. We then potered back down the hill and had lunch overlooking the Parliament buildings, modeled on our own. We ...

... , and it was really heavy, but very cool. Afterwards we walked around castle hill a bit more, went by the military history museum where you can still see bullet holes in some walls. Afterwards we went into the labyrinth which is an underground tunnel ...

... The palace itself is surrounded by a huge complex of buildings, including the Ludwig Museum, the National Gallery, the Budapest History Museum, and the Szechenyi National Library – all very impressive (although we only passed through them; we read ...

... of its glorious past in the 1950's after the war. The Palace houses several museums. I ended up visiting the city history museum. The most interesting display has nothing to do with Budapest history and it is describing how the famous Iceman in ...

... managed to reconcile historical authenticity with urban planning demands. Today, among others, it houses the National Gallery, the Budapest History Museum, the Modern Historical Museum and the National Library. Going about the castle premises in our own ...

We arrived in Budapest, Hungary, after a 3 hour train journey from Vienna. It was immediately apparent that Budapest is not as affluent as the other cities we had visited.  The main train station is dilapidated with a crumbling facade that is badly ...

... city. They also had a lot of folk dancers and music playing so that was interesting to watch. We went in to see the History Museum, which was also housed in the castle. We walked around for about 30 minutes looking at stuff that we were clueless about ...

... walls where the views of the Danube, Parliament building and downtown Budapest are spectacular.  We go through the excellent Budapest history museum. We walk to the restaurant where we will meet the kids and Judit for lunch to hear about the school ...

... and told us the best places to see and then we headed out into the city. The first place we visited was the national history museum, which was very interesting. We learnt about the ever changing boarders of Hungary since it's birth as a nation as kids ...

... and a couple of rolls) before i ventured across the river to the Royal Palace to learn more about the country at the Budapest History Museum which wasn't a bad way to pass an hour or so. Up the road to the Matthias Church, a quick poke around before ...