All person & artist museums to visit in Hungary

Explore the lives and works of notable individuals at 13 museums in Hungary dedicated to specific persons and artists. These museums offer a deep dive into their contributions and legacy.

Are you curious about the lives of remarkable individuals? Here are the top person and artist museums in Hungary:

  1. Holocaust Memorial Center1

    Holocaust Memorial Center

     Budapest
    The Holocaust Memorial Center is a renovated synagogue and museum in Budapest that dates back to the 20s and is devoted to Hungarian Jews that were killed in The Holocaust. Furthermore, the museum also mentions the discrimination and killings of Gypsies, homosexuals, and the disabled.
  2. Zwack Museum and Visitor Center2

    Zwack Museum and Visitor Center

     Budapest
    The Zwack Museum and Visitor Center tells the story of Zwack Unicum, an aperitif made from 40 herbs and spices as well as the family responsible for it. Two centuries ago royal physician to the Habsburg Emperor Dr. Zwack invented the bitter drink. Furthermore, the museum and visitor centre holds a c
  3. Victor Vasarely Museum3

    Victor Vasarely Museum

     Budapest
    The Vasarely Museum, affiliated to the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest, is holding the largest and most comprehensive collection of Victor Vasarely's body of work outside of France. The permanent exhibition of Vasarely's works is based on his artistic development, which is showcased in a chronologi
  4. Liszt Ferenc Memorial Museum4

    Liszt Ferenc Memorial Museum

     Budapest
    The Liszt Ferenc Memorial Museum is a museum in Budapest dedicated to Liszt Ferenc (Franz Liszt), a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, music teacher, arranger and organist of the Romantic era. In the museum visitors can learn about his life and work which displays his belongings, music
  5. Semmelweis Museum of Medical History5

    Semmelweis Museum of Medical History

     Budapest
    Semmelweis Museum of Medical History (The Semmelweis Medical Museum) is a museum in Budapest housed in the house where Dr. Semmelwies was born in. Semmelweis was a Hungarian physician of ethnic-German ancestry, now known as an early pioneer of antiseptic procedures. With its collection of medical to
  6. Roth Miksa Memorial House6

    Roth Miksa Memorial House

     Budapest
    The Roth Miksa Memorial House in Budapest was the home of Róth Miksa, the internationally well-known Hungarian mosaicist and stain glass artist responsible for making mosaic and stained glass prominent art forms in Hungarian art.
  7. Foundry Museum7

    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
  8. Petőfi Literary Museum8

    Petőfi Literary Museum

     Budapest
    The Petőfi Literary Museum (Petofi Literary Museum) is a museum in Budapest named after Sándor Petőfi who was a Hungarian poet and liberal revolutionary and is considered Hungary's national poet. He was one of the key figures of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. The museum aims to promote classical
  9. Kassák Museum9

    Kassák Museum

     Budapest
    The Lajos Kassák Memorial Museum (Kassák Museum) is a museum in Budapest that is devoted to the Hungarian poet, novelist, painter, essayist, editor, theoretician of the avant-garde, and occasional translator Lajos Kassák. The museums exhibits his literary and fine art work in a permanent exhibition
  10. Ady Endre Emlékmúzeum10

    Ady Endre Emlékmúzeum

     Budapest
    The Ady Endre Emlékmúzeum is a museum in Budapest that is dedicated to the turn-of-the-century Hungarian poet and journalist Endre Ady. The museum exhibits objects related to him.
  11. Zoltán Kodály Memorial Museum and Archives11

    Zoltán Kodály Memorial Museum and Archives

     Budapest
    The Zoltán Kodály Museum is a museum in Budapest that is dedicated to one of the most important Hungarian composers of the 20th century. The museum was opened in 1990 and occupies the place where the musician lived and worked from 1924 until his death in 1967. The museum contains three rooms preserv
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    Imre Varga Collection

     Budapest
    The Imre Varga Collection is a museum that is dedicated to the renowned Hungariansculptor, painter, designer and graphic artist Imre Varga. The musuem holds and displays a collection of his sketches, work materials and statues.
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    Molnár-C. Pál Studio Museum

     Budapest
    The Molnár-C. Pál Studio Museum is a museum in Budapest that was founded in 1984, where Molnár-C. Paul worked for 50 years until his death from 1931 to 1981. Three years after his death, his daughter, dr. Star Pálné Éva opened her first private collection of picturesque works. The permanently changi