Get to know relics from earlier millennia! Our archaeological exhibition presents to the visitor the history of the peoples of Hungary from earliest times up to the Avar age.

In this part of the exhibition, we present the leading personalities and key events in Hungary’s history during the modern era and subsequently.

Born on 2 October 1869, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi took the name Mahatma Gandhi and become not only the ‘Father of the Nation’ in modern India but one of the most famous politicians inspiring millions around the world.

In honour of the 150th anniversary of Gandhi’s birth, the Government of India embarked on a series of celebratory commemorations in 2018, which ended on 2 October 2020, the 151st anniversary of Gandhi’s birthday.

At the dawn of the Middle Ages, in a period when peoples of various origin and cultural background succeded each other in the Carpathian Basin, written sources mainly inform us about the world of men and warfare, while women mostly stay ‘invisible'. However, from an archaeological point of view it is exactly women's graves which are more spectacular, richer and more colourful than those of men.

We would like to inform our esteemed visitors that from 2 December 2025, the exhibition spaces of The Coronation Mantle, The Seuso treasure – The Splendour of Roman Pannonia, the Széchényi Hall, and the Open Repository will be temporarily closed due to renovation works. The expected reopening date of the exhibitions is spring 2026.

John Sadovy (1925–2010), a Czech-born photojournalist reporting for the American illustrated weekly Life, witnessed and photographed events of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution for four days, from 29 October to 1 November 1956. His pictures from that time, mainly the ones taken during the siege of the headquarters of the Budapest Committee of the Hungarian Working People’s Party at Köztársaság Square (today Pope John Paul II Square), gained worldwide fame on the pages of Life and other important international publications.