The most important part of the more than 60,000 postcards in the Postcard Collection are those featuring political (e.g. war, irredentist), social and cultural historical (e.g. scouting, ethnography) content, and those presenting the settlements of the Carpathian Basin. There is also a significant number of museological images, from Hungary and abroad, mainly of artefacts, arranged by genre. An important part of the collection is the preserved, organised and partly inventoried archive material of the Képzőművészeti Alap Kiadó Válladó Vállalat (1953–1991), the monopolistic postcard publishing company of the socialist era.

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Postcard of the Millennium Exhibition Buildings, from 1896
Postcard of the Millennium Exhibition Buildings, from 1896
Commemorative Litograph of the Coronation of the Last Hungarian king, Charles IV, December 16, 1916
Litograph of the Coronation of the Last Hungarian king, Charles IV, December 16, 1916
The Hungarian National Museum on a Lithographed Postcard, 1896
The Hungarian National Museum on a Lithographed Postcard, 1896
The Totalitarian Dictatorship of the 50s Spreading the Rákosi-Era Cult of Personality on Postcards
The Totalitarian Dictatorship of the 50s Spreading the Rákosi-Era Cult of Personality on Postcards