Budapest Guide
The Belváros
Petőfi Literary Museum
Opening time: Tues– Sun 10am–6pm
Price: 600Ft
Address: 16 Károlyi Mihály utca
Website: www.pim.hu
The Petőfi Literary Museum (Petőfi Irodalmi Múzeum) showcases the personal effects of Sándor Petőfi, the nineteenth-century revolutionary poet, and of later Hungarian writers, including Endre Ady's fedora and Mihály Babit's bomb-flattened typewriter. Captions are in Hungarian only. More accessible for foreigners is the mansion's garden, the Károlyi-kert, a delightful haven within the Belváros with an agreeable restaurant . It was here that Lajos Batthyány, head of the independent Hungarian government following the 1848 revolution, was arrested in 1849, and General Haynau, the "Butcher of Vienna", signed the death warrants of Batthyány and other rebel leaders after finishing his morning exercises.