Kiscelli Museum
Kiscelli Museum
Address: 108 Kiscelli út,
Budapest
Telephone: (36-1) 1888-560
(36-1) 2500-304
Opening hours:
From 1 April to 31 October: 10am - 6pm
From 1 November to 31 March: 10am - 4pm
Permanent exhibitions:
- Gold Lion Pharmacy
It was found by József Landerer in 1794. The furniture and the
equipment dates from 1820-1860.
- Printing houses of the capital from the 18th-19th century.
A particularity of the exhibition is the famous printing-machine
made by Landerer and Heckenast on which Sándor Petôfi's poet, the
'National Song' was printed. On March 15. 1848, Sándor Petôfi,
a foremost patriotic poet of his country, stood up on the left-pillar
of the stairway of the National Museum and recited to the crowd this
fiery poet which he finished only hours earlier. This poem appealed to
the nation to launch a revolution to liberate Hungary from the Habsburg
oppression.
- Sculpture hall
This Baroque sculptures were risen up on Szentháromság tér
in order to get protection agains the epidemic of the plague.
- Relics from Pest-Buda
- Picture gallery of the capital
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