Culture

• Museums

• Classical music

• Dance

• Festivals

• Cultural venues

• Antiques

• Walk the Cultural Avenue

• Cultural Budapest

Budapest Film - Culture

There is a huge range of cultural entertainment to choose from in Budapest. There are theatrical performances and concerts of classical and light music every day, with both Hungarian artists and guests from all over the world. The Budapest Spring Festival and the Budapest Autumn Festival are two major international music, theatre, film and art festivals. Grand opera and ballet are staged at the Opera House, whereas the Operetta Theatre is the place to see and hear the operettas and musicals of Lehár, Kálmán and Ábrahám. “The Phantom of the Opera” is on all the year round at the Madách Theatre, and foreign language productions, mostly English, are put on at the Merlin Theatre. Vibrant folk music and dancing shows are regularly held at the Buda Vigadó and Duna Palota Theatres.

 

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Museums		Classical music
Dance		Festivals
Cultural venues		Antiques

Walk the Cultural Avenue		Cultural Budapest Group

 

• Museums

  Aquincum Museum and Roman Ruins: (III. Szentendrei út 139): These two-thousand-year old ruins are remains of the Roman town of Aquincum, and include an impressive ruin of the amphitheatre. The contents of the museum include murals, mosaic floors, a reconstructed water organ and a diorama showing what and how the Roman nobility ate.

• Classical music

  Budapest is proud of possessing one of the most beautiful opera houses in the world. The opening performance of the Opera House was held in the neo-Renaissance building, the jewel of the avenue, in 1884 after nine years of construction. The staircase and the auditorium of the palace, designed by one of the best architects of those days Miklós...

• Dance

  Hungarian classical and folk music is world-renowned. The names and works of Béla Bartók, Zoltán Kodály and Ferenc Liszt have won Hungarian culture a considerable reputation. Globetrotting Hungarian folklore ensembles (Hungarian State Folk Ensemble, Duna Artists Ensemble, Rajkó Orchestra) regularly take to the stage of the Duna Palace.

• Festivals

  The climate of Budapest is not really suitable for open-air events from October till March. This time the events are organized indoors, with the exceptions of the Christmas Fair at Vörösmarty Square, and the celebration of New Year’s Eve, when the inhabitants of Budapest, excepting only a few, rush to the streets and blow paper trumpets and...

• Cultural venues

  An exhibition hall is very similar to a museum, however it hasn’t got own collections. There are dedicated exhibition halls in Budapest, as there are such museums, which function as exhibition halls AS WELL, that is they have interesting temporary exhibitions matching the permanent exhibitions, and according to the new global trends the big...

• Antiques

  In the 21st Century Budapest going to libraries became fashionable again – it’s enough if we take the great success of the renewed Central Ervin Szabó Library. The old book street in the Museum Boulevard had reached its final size around 2000, where the friends of the books can make a round-trip in every book-stores from Kálvin Square to...

• Walk the Cultural Avenue

  The phrase „cultural avenue” was devised by Budapest-lover culture and tourism experts around 2000. They were trying to adapt the popular term Museum Mile of some American cities into Hungarian. They figured that a similar "institution" exists in Budapest, and it can be explored on foot or using the excellent public transport, although it...

• Cultural Budapest

  In May 2008 the Tourism Office of Budapest and the Palace of Arts founded a workgroup uniting the leading cultural institutions of the Hungarian capital with the aim of joining forces with the cultural institutions that play an important role in the cultural life of Budapest. The cultural institutions who participate in the project promote the...