SPECTACULAR NEW MUSEUM OF ETHNOGRAPHY IN BUDAPEST

The Museum of Ethnography has opened its doors to visitors in its new space, located as part of the Liget Budapest project.

The museum’s new home welcomes visitors with spectacular exhibitions in a building designed by Marcell Ferencz (NAPUR Architect). This is the first specialized facility fully tailored to the needs of an ethnographic museum. Situated in City Park, the new museum has become one of the most modern museum-gallery spaces in Europe.

Built on the site of the former Felvonulási Square, the museum complex spans three times the area of its previous location on Kossuth Square. The building, with a design resembling nearly embracing hillsides, is recognizable by its unique façade decorated with nearly half a million pixels, showcasing contemporary adaptations of twenty Hungarian and twenty international ethnographic motifs.

Additionally, the building boasts a large roof garden of more than seven thousand square meters, offering a stunning panoramic view.

The Museum of Ethnography has also been recognized internationally. In 2018, it was awarded as the best public architecture in the world at the prestigious International Property Awards in London, based solely on its architectural design.

With the relocation of its collection, consisting of 250,000 items from the Carpathian Basin and all corners of the world, the museum is now able to exhibit its collections in a space several times larger than before.

The new Museum of Ethnography is located at the end of City Park, near Andrássy Avenue, which, before its construction, traditionally served as the entrance to the park. Until the 1950s, when Felvonulási Square was built on this site, the area was used for demonstrations during the communist era.

For visitors arriving by car, parking is available in the museum’s underground garage, which opened in 2020.