Visitors are offered an easy introduction to traditional Hungarian life at this sprawling museum opposite Parliament with thousands of displays in a dozen rooms on the 1st floor. The mock-ups of peasant houses from the Őrség and Sárköz regions of Western and Southern Transdanubia are well done, and there are some priceless objects, which are examined though institutions, beliefs and stages of life.
On the ground floor, most of the excellent temporary exhibitions deal with other peoples of Europe and further afield: Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas. The building itself was designed in 1893 by Alajos Hauszmann to house the Supreme Court; note the ceiling fresco in the lobby of Justice by Károly Lotz.
