Budapest Guide
The Városliget and the stadium district
The Transport Museum
Opening time: Tues– Fri 10am–5pm, Sat & Sun 10am–6pm
Price: 800Ft
Address: On the edge of Városliget Park
The Transport Museum (Közlekedési Múzeum), on the edge of the park, features displays with captions in English that explain that the Hungarian transport network of the 1890s was among the most sophisticated in Europe. Despite the country starting from a low technological base, railways, canals, trams and a metro had all been created within fifty years. Displays include vintage locomotives and scale models of steamboats, and a wonderful collection of Hungarian Railways posters from 1900 to 1980. The model train set on the floor above the foyer attracts a crowd when it's switched on – for fifteen minutes every hour, on the hour. Collectors can buy Hungarian model trains in the museum shop. Outside the building are remnants of two of the Danube bridges that were wrecked in 1945: the cast-iron Erzsébet híd (replaced by a new bridge) and a few links of the original chains from the Lánchíd, which is now supported by cables.