Budapest Historical Museum, Hungary - Museum

Church, Fort, Museum

The Budapest Historical Museum (Budapesti Történeti Múzeum; City Museum; Castle Museum) is housed in the south arm of the fortress. It contains extremely interesting documents, ceramics, wrought-iron work, textiles, household utensils and other objects which offer a wide-ranging picture of life in the independent towns of Óbuda, Buda and Pest up to 1872. In the Renaissance Room is a portrait screening Matthias Corvinus and Beatrice of Aragon, his second wife. In the Gothic Room are fine sculptures dated between 1370 and 1420, which were revealed during excavation work in 1974. Other Gothic sculptures can be seen in the lower chapel. A gorgeous 15th C triptych has been set up in the church choir of the chapel.