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Golden Unicorn Pharmacy Museum
This ye olde apothecary has a display of medicinal plants in the attic, some exceptional 18th-century oak furniture, medicinal herbs growing in the small garden and entertaining displays on medicine through the ages (including a periodic table with the elements personified – arseni
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Wine Museum
Vác’s Wine Museum has an exceptional collection of more than 2500 Hungarian wines, including Tokaji Aszú from 1880. Wine tastings can be arranged.
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György Kohán Museum
The György Kohán Museum, in a quiet little park, is Gyula’s most important art museum, with more than 3000 paintings and graphics bequeathed to the city by the artist upon his death at age 56 in 1966. The large canvases of horses and women in dark blues and greens, and the relentle
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Buffalo Reserve
At the southern end of Kis-Balaton is a Buffalo Reserve, which is home to some 200 water buffalo; the best time to visit is late afternoon, when the buffalo gather near the reserve headquarters. Its more than a trek to get there by public transport, so the only real option is under
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Dreher Brewery & Beer Museum
Budapest’s – and Hungary’s – largest beer maker has a museum at its brewery where you can look at displays of brewing and bottling over the centuries. If you can muster up a group of at least 10, you can take a 1½-hour ‘Beer Voyage’ (adult/senior & student 1300/650Ft), which in
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Miksa Róth Memorial House
This fabulous museum exhibits the work of the eponymous Art Nouveau stained-glass maker (1865–1944) on two floors of the house and workshop where he lived and worked from 1911 until his death. The master’s stunning mosaics are less well known. Róth’s dark-brown living quarters stan
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Buda Castle Labyrinth
This 1200m-long cave system, located some 16m under the Castle District, looks at how the caves have been used since prehistoric times in five separate labyrinths encompassing 10 halls. It’s all good fun and a relief from the heat on a hot summer’s day – it’s always 20°C down here
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Semmelweis Museum of Medical History
This quirky (and sometimes grisly) museum traces the history of medicine from Graeco-Roman times through medical tools, instruments and photographs; yet another antique pharmacy also makes an appearance. Featured are the life and works of Ignác Semmelweis (1818–65), the ‘saviour of
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Solomon’s Tower
North of the main town and just a short walk up Görgey lépcső from the Mahart ferry port, 13th-century Solomons Tower was once part of a lower castle used to control river traffic. These days, whats left the of stocky, hexagonal keep, with walls up to 8m thick, houses one of the pa
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Courtyard of Honour
As you approach the main entrance to the so-called Courtyard of Honour, whose geometric gardens are now being replanted, notice the ornamental wrought-iron gate, a masterpiece of the rococo. You can only tour the palace with a guide, but armed with a fact sheet in English (availabl
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Hospital in the Rock
Part of the Castle Hill caves network, this subterranean hospital was used extensively during the WWII siege of Budapest and during the 1956 Uprising. It contains original medical equipment as well as some 200 wax figures and is visited on a guided one-hour tour, which includes a w
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Szentendre Art Mill
This enormous gallery, spread over three floors of an old mill, exhibits both local and national artists and underscores Szentendre’s renewed commitment to become once again a centre for serious art. Its extensive exhibition space is used for paintings, sculpture, graphics and appl
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Golden Eagle Pharmacy
Just north of Dísz tér on the site of Budapest’s first pharmacy (1681), this branch of the Semmelweis Museum of Medical History in Tabán contains an unusual mixture of displays, including a mock-up of an alchemist’s laboratory with dried bats and tiny crocodiles in jars, and a smal
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Minorite Church of St Anthony of Padua
On the southern side of Egers main square stands the Minorite church, built in 1771 by Bohemian architect Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer and one of the most glorious baroque buildings in Hungary. The altarpiece of the Virgin Mary and St Anthony of Padua is by Johann Kracker, the Bohemi
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Water Tower & Open
Erected in 1911 in the north-central part of Margaret Island, the octagonal water tower rises 66m above the recently renovated open-air theatre (szabadtéri színpad), which is used for concerts and plays in summer. The tower contains the Lookout Gallery (Kilátó Galéria). Climbing th
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János Tornyai Museum
The raison d’être of this museum is to show off the town’s folk art, like the ‘hairy’ embroidery done with yarnlike thread. But the collection of regional jugs, pitchers and plates is the finest, representing all three main types of pottery once made here (named after city district
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Bird Park Centre
Get up close with ailing feathered friends as they convalesce at the Bird Park Centre. Walk through the ‘hospital’ section of this sanctuary (including an operating room), among ambling storks in the park and into an aviary with hawks. Fidgety kestrels stay behind one-way glass. Ki
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Savaria Museum
Those into Roman relics will love the extensive collection from the museum’s namesake settlement, housed inside this large, crumbling mansion – from the impressive Roman votive altars and tomb stones to the rare milestone used to mark the distance between Rome and Savaria. Other no
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István Zelnik Southeast Asian Gold Museum
Inside the reconstructed 19th-century Rausch Villa, youll find the collection of Dr István Zelnik, a former diplomat who started his career in Southeast Asia and became a zealous collector of the art and culture of the region. Its an immaculately presented set of glistering masks,
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Centennial Monument
This monument, in the flower-bedded roundabout 350m north of the tram stop on Margaret Bridge, was unveiled in 1973 to mark the 100th anniversary of the union of Buda, Pest and Óbuda. As it was an entirely different era in Budapest more than 40 years ago, the sculptor filled the st
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