Museums in Hungary [antikvár]

The number of Hungárián museums is over hundred and fifty. They offer many things to see to the tourists, who take an interest in the history, the ethnography, the archaeological remains and the cultural traditions of the country. There are several museums among them, which collect their objects on a nation-wide field and which own precious objects on a European level. Though, the visitor may find alsó in the smaller ones of more local importance curious things, valuable works of art or surviving objects from the past of Hungárián people. Within these narrow bounds it is not possible to present every Hungárián museum to the reader. But we try to draw his attention to certain ones of our museums, which certainly deserve a visit while making a tour of the country. In Budapest, the capital of Hungary, there are more than 25 museums. The most important ones of them collect on a nation-wide field. El Greco: The Magdaléna (Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest) The Museum of Fine Arts (1152, XIV., Dózsa György út 41.) owns the greatest collection of its kind in the country. The building is situated- at the entrance of the Városliget (City Park) on right side of the Hősök tere. From the beginning of the XIXth century more than 100,000 works of art were collected and housed in this neoclassicistic building. The Picture Gallery of Old Masters is especially remarkable, for there are e.g. seven paintings by El Greco and five ones by Goya-only the Prado Museum in Madrid owns a greater number of pictures by these masters. The Italian and Dutch sections have alsó many world-famous works of art, e.g. the "Madonna Esterházy" by Raffaello, the "Portrait of the Venetian Dogé Trevisan" by Tiziano, the "Portrait of a Man" by Giorgione, the "Portrait of a Man" by Piombo, the "Sermon of St. John the Baptist" by Pieter Brueghel the Elder.-The other permanent exhibitions of the museum display Egyptian antiquities, grecoroman antiquities and modern European painting and sculpture. The most important collection of modern Hungárián fine arts is shown in the expositions of the Hungárián National Gallery (1055, V., Kossuth Lajos tér 12.). The collections keep the works of the greatest Hungárián masters of the XIXth~XXth centuries. The visitor finds here the famous paintings of Mihály Munkácsy, e.g. "The Condemned Cell" and "The Yawning Apprentice", further the works of Bertalan Székely, Viktor Madarász, Gyula Benczúr, and the first Hungárián impressionism painting, the "Picnic in