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Housed in an 18th-century palace with a lovely courtyard, this wonderful little museum
traces the development of music in Hungary from the 18th century to the present day in a
half-dozen exhibition rooms. There are rooms devoted to the work of Béla Bartók, Franz
Liszt and Joseph Haydn, with lots of instruments and original scores and manuscripts.
MUSEUM
TELEPHONY MUSEUM
(Telefónia Múzeum; MAP GOOGLE MAP ; 1-201 8857; www.postamuzeum.hu ; I Úri utca 49 & Or-
szágház utca 30; adult/child 500/250Ft; 10am-4pm Tue-Sun; 16, 16A, 116)
This museum, set within a lovely backstreet garden, documents the history of the telephone
in Hungary since 1881, when the world's first switchboard - a Rotary 7A1, still working
and the centrepiece of the exhibition - was set up in Budapest. Other exhibits pay tribute to
Tivadar Puskás, a Hungarian associate of Thomas Edison, and cover the latter's fleeting vis-
it to Budapest in 1891. Enter from Országház utca 30 at the weekend.
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