Hungarian National Gallery
Hungarian art from Gothic altarpieces to the present, in the Buda Castle palace with a dome terrace.
The Hungarian National Gallery was founded in 1957 to bring together Hungarian art that had been dispersed among other collections. Since 1975 it has occupied wings A to D of the Royal Palace on Castle Hill, the complex rebuilt after the Second World War from the nineteenth-century palace of Miklós Ybl and Alajos Hauszmann. In 2012 the gallery was merged with the Museum of Fine Arts, though the two sites remain separately open to visitors.
The permanent displays run from medieval and Renaissance stone carving through late Gothic winged altarpieces to nineteenth-century painting, the art of 1896 to the Second World War, and post-war and contemporary work. Mihály Munkácsy, Pál Szinyei Merse and Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka are among the painters represented, and a collection of international art since 1800 is also shown. Visitors can climb to the dome for views over the Danube, and the Habsburg Palatine Crypt can be seen by arrangement.
Highlights
- Late Gothic winged altarpieces from Upper Hungary
- Paintings by Munkácsy, Szinyei Merse and Csontváry Kosztka
- Dome walkway with views over the Danube and Pest
- Habsburg Palatine Crypt, visited by prior registration
