Budapest History Museum

The Budapest History Museum is also called the Castle Museum, as it is housed in the Buda Castle.

Budapest History Museum Collection

The museum is divided into four floors: the basement, bottom floor, first floor, and second floor.

The Museum’s collection features objects of Hungarian everyday life and recreates certain living spaces and traditional rooms in Hungarian’s traditional culture.  Unfortunately, many of the objects on display only have captions in Hungarian, and it is sometimes difficult to understand what they were used for.

The Museum’s basement is completely different from the rest of the floors. After World War II, the Castle’s corridors and halls were rebuilt and are now open to the public.

The most striking rooms in the Museum include the chapel and the Gothic hall. These rooms date back to when there was an actual castle on this site before the Royal Palace was built.  

Worth Discovering the Ruins

In our opinion, because the collection is not very large and most of the information is only in Hungarian, we recommend visiting this museum if you want to discover the basement where the Castle's ruins are located.