Budapesti Történeti Múzeum - Vármúzeum / Budapest History Museum - Castle Museum

A seriously underrated museum! I think they have to market it better because there is so much to see around the Buda castle that people don't know where to start and where to enter. We paid around 5 euros (student/youth ticket) and got to see 3 floors of amazing exhibitions. We spent almost 3 hours there, but we would spend even more if we read every item description! The ground floor has a big art exhibition ("An Italian in Hungary") and a beautiful courtyard with a glass ceiling. The first floor has the famous restaurated St. Stephens Hall and an enourmos exhibition about the history of Budapest with many interesting sections (architecture, politics, war, culture, bathing culture, theater, entertainment, furniture etc.). The lower floor has many sculptures, stone pieces, the Gothic room and the Chapel! Everything is displayed really well, and there's a lot of interactive parts which are marked with a hand symbol. It's clean and quiet. There are nice toilets on each floor. The souvenir shop inside by the entrance is great, many cool pins and keychains with motifs from tiles in St. Stephens Hall, and the prices are fair. There's a cool cafe in the room next to it also! So worth the time and money!

The castle museum is vast and has an extensive collection related to the Budapest history and the castle across different eras. The restored St. Stephen’s Hall is the expecially impressive, with its marvelous and prestigious inner layout and decoration. Visiting the entire museum takes around 3 hours. It closed at 6pm but the last tour of St. Stephen’s Hall starts at 5:15pm. Some paths can be a bit confusing, making it easy to get lost, and requiring extra time.

I liked the museum, is very large and has so many exhibitions, some are really engaging, other not much. St Stephen hall reproduction is a must, is so beautiful and the audioguide is great. If you have little time I recommend to see only the st Stephen hall, and see the basement rooms if possible. An unique view of what was inside the castle and underground. The ticket price is fine, less than other attractions of the city that are too expensive already. I payed 2500 ft for a student ticket. And I spend like 3 hours in the museum.

Get ticket online. The ticket counter works quite slow and the queue could take about 15mins. Cellphone signal is bad within those walls but there is WiFi. The museum is very nicely done. Everything in chronological order, from roman to contemporary, all you need to know in a nutshell.

I liked this museum. There is a ton of information and it can be overwhelming. The front desk staff were very nice and spoke English. Start on the top floor for more recent history is my advice. The whole castle area is incredible and offers great views of the city and Danube River!

Spent a long time discovering this Jewel of a museum. Lots of floors and Great presentation about the history and life of the city below. Interesting and not too busy. Exhibits were well spaced with dual language signs. They unclude fine art, antiquities with the banner tapestry,, a room full of maps and items showing the castle and city origins, the areas of the medieval castle with chapel, vaulted cistern and workrooms. Plus the renovated room of Stephen Hall for a small extra fee with it's ornate interior.

The place is very beautiful, all kinds of art and history, new places and old time castle ruins, but there are lots of rooms that are closed, probably in the future they'll manage to open them all, besides, they've done a lot with this place in the last 10-15 years or more, it used to be only ruins, so congrats for making such a huge effort to display them to the world.

I visited this museum hoping to learn more about Hungarian history, expecting a clear chronological journey from the earliest inhabitants of the Budapest region through the Roman period and beyond. Unfortunately, I found the museum quite poorly organized. There are two different entrances, so be careful which one you choose. We entered through the lower, basement entrance, and it’s possible this made us go through the museum in reverse, which added to the confusion. The museum is not very interactive: there is a lot to read but relatively few objects on display. Compared to more hands-on and engaging museums, this one feels rather static and not very playful. On the positive side, the views of Budapest through the windows are stunning, and the very old section where you can enter the castle’s former water reservoir is genuinely interesting and worth seeing.