All industrial & heritage museums to visit in Budapest

Explore the impact of industry on society at 5 industrial heritage museums in Budapest. These museums showcase the history of manufacturing, technology, and labor.

Are you curious about the history of industry and innovation? These are the top industrial heritage museums in Budapest:

  1. Hungarian Railway Museum1

    Hungarian Railway Museum

     Budapest
    The Hungarian Railway Museum or Hungarian Railway History Park is a railway museum and park in Budapest located at a former railway station and workshop of the Hungarian State Railways. The park covers more than 70,000 square meters and features all kinds of railway equipment, such as passenger cars
  2. Underground Railway Museum2

    Underground Railway Museum

     Budapest
    The Underground Railway Museum, also sometimes called the Millennium Museum is a museum in Budapest that is dedicated to the history of Budapest's underground. The museum was opened in 1975 and is located within the Deák Ferenc tér metro station. Inside the museum, a station was recreated in style o
  3. Foundry Museum3

    Foundry Museum

     Budapest
    The Foundry Museum (Öntödei Múzeum) is a museum in Budapest. It is a branch museum of the Hungarian Museum of Technology and Transport. The Foundry Museum features several permanent exhibitions, including: The original Ganz factory's crumbs equipment, Memories of the life of Ganz Abraham, Domestic m
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    Postal Museum

     Budapest
    The Postal Museum (Post Museum) in Budapest holds a collection that started in 1881 from the inventory of the National Finance Office and the Central Telegraph Storage, consisting mostly of items related to telegraph history. Later the collection got expanded with postal related objects, telephone r
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    Hungarian Electrical Engineering Museum

     Budapest
    This former Bauhouse-style transformer station houses the Hungarian Electrical Engineering Museum. The museum showcases the history of technical engineering and some grand inventions by Hungarian inventors.