Sights in Budapest

The building:

In 1802, Count Ferenc Széchényi offered his rich collection to the nation to establish the Hungarian National Museum. That is why, Hungary respects this year as the foundation of the Hungarian National Museum. Those days, the collection comprised 11884 prints, 1156 manuscripts, 142 books, maps and copperplates. The collection first was placed in the Pauline monastery in Pest.

The Diet of 1807 nationalized the institute and called upon the nation to donate to the new Museum. One of the most important of the donations was Julia Festetich mineral collection, which formed the base of the later Natural History Museum. Beside the donations, purchasing was the way to enrich the collection. The Hungarian Diet of 1832-36 bought Miklós Jankovich's valuable collection.

Collections:

During two hundred years passed since its foundation, enormous and mainly irreplacable collection of artefacts and documents has been collected at the Hungarian Natiional Museum. Without the archaeological, historical, ethnical relics, we would only have incomplet knowledge on the history of the people of Carpathian Basin....

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