Budapest Guide
Óbuda and Margit-sziget
The Kiscelli Museum
Opening time: Tues– Sun: April– Oct 10am–6pm; Nov– March 10am–4pm
Price: 700Ft
Address: On a hillside above Óbuda, fifteen-minutes' walk north of the Szemlőhegyi Cave
Website: www.btmfk.iif.hu
The Kiscelli Museum (Kiscelli Múzeum) occupies a former Trinitarian monastery in a beautiful wooded setting at Kiscelli utca 108. The museum's collection includes antique printing presses and the 1830 Biedermeier furnishings of the Golden Lion pharmacy, which used to stand on Kálvin tér. Also on show are carved shop signs, the Budapest Municipal Gallery's collection of sculptures and graphics by twentieth-century Hungarian artists, and antique furniture exhibited in the blackened shell of the monastery's Gothic church, which makes a dramatic backdrop for classical concerts, animated film shows and other events (see www.kiscell.org). The museum can be reached by bus #165 from Kolosy tér or bus #60 from Batthyány tér.