Budapest Guide
Várhegy and central Buda
The Telephone Museum
Opening time: Tues– Sun 10am–4pm
Price: 400Ft
Address: Országház utca 30
A former wing of the Poor Clares' cloister that served as a postwar telephone exchange, the Telephone Museum (Telefónia Múzeum) strives to explain the development of telephone exchanges since their introduction to Budapest in the early 1900s – activating a noisy rotary one that's stood here since the 1930s – and you're invited to dial up commentaries in English or songs in Hungarian, check out the webcam and internet facilities, and admire the personal phones of Emperor Franz Josef, Admiral Horthy and the Communist leader János Kádár.