Travel Reference
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GALLERY
IMRE VARGA COLLECTION
utca 7; adult/child 800/400Ft; 10am-6pm Tue-Sun Apr-Oct, to 4pm Tue-Sun Nov-Mar; 86)
This collection includes sculptures, statues, medals and drawings by Imre Varga (b 1923),
one of Hungary's foremost sculptors. Like others before him, notably Zsigmond Kisfaludi
Strobl, Varga seems to have sat on both sides of the fence politically for decades - sculpting
Béla Kun and Lenin as dexterously as he did St Stephen, Béla Bartók and even Imre Nagy.
But his work always remains fresh and is never derivative. Note the fine bust of Winston
Churchill (2003) near the entrance.
A very short distance to the southwest of the museum you'll see a group of outdoor sculp-
tures by Varga. They portray four rather worried-looking women holding umbrellas in the
middle of the street.
MUSEUM
KISCELL MUSEUM
1-388 7817;
www.btmfk.iif.hu/
; III Kiscelli utca 108; adult/
student & senior 1000/500Ft;
10am-6pm Tue-Sun Apr-Oct, to 4pm Tue-Sun Nov-Mar;
160, 165,
17)
Housed in an 18th-century monastery, this museum contains two excellent sections. In the
Contemporary City History Collection
(Újkori Várostörténeti Gyűjtemény) you'll find a
complete 19th-century apothecary brought from Kálvin tér; a wonderful assembly of ancient
signboards advertising shops and other trades; and rooms dressed in Empire, Biedermeier
and Art Nouveau furniture and bric-a-brac. The
Municipal Picture Gallery
(Fővárosi
Képtár), with its impressive collection of works by József Rippl-Rónai, Lajos Tihanyi,
István Csók and Béla Czóbel, is upstairs.
ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE
ROMAN MILITARY AMPHITHEATRE
86,
HÉV to Tímár
utca)
Built in the 2nd century for the Roman garrisons, this amphitheatre, about 800m south of
Flórián tér, could accommodate 6000 spectators. The rest of the military camp extended
north to Flórián tér. Archaeology and classical-history buffs taking bus 86 to Flórián tér
should get off at III Nagyszombat utca.
MUSEUM
ÓBUDA MUSEUM
1-250 1020;
www.obudaimuzeum.hu
;
III Fő tér 1; adult/
child 800/400Ft;
10am-6pm Tue-Sun;
86)
