Discover the best top things to do in Central Hungary, Hungary including Magyar Foldrajzi Muzeum, Budapest Pinball Museum, Ur Eleonora Batik Art Gallery, Kemence Forestry Museum Railway, Drum Museum, Lamp Museum, Archaeological Park, Hungarian Open Air Museum (Szabadteri Neprajzi Muzeum), Hospital in the Rock Nuclear Bunker Museum, Holocaust Memorial Center.
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Hungary's first and Europe's largest continuously operating interactive pinball exhibition with unlimited trial of more than 130 pinball machines.
I went for my 30th to Budapest. My mate wanted to visit here. I was dubious and I was so wrong. Absolutely fantastic, wide range of games, great fun! Couldn’t recommend it enough!
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Traditional batik technique from Indonesia merges with visions of Eleonora Ur in the paintings of this boutique Art Gallery.
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The Kemence Forestry Museum Railway is an unique 600 mm narrow gauge railway at Hungary: all of jobs are made by volunteers. Volunteers renew, rebuild the old engines, volunteers restore the abandoned and destroyed track and volunteers drive the engines on the line. Scheduled trains due to the volunteers are available only on Weekends. Trains departures from Kemence station: Saturdays: 10:00, 13:00, 16:00 Sundays: 10:00, 13:00, 16:00 Charter trains can be ordered by phone on the given number above. GPS coordinates:
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The 50-year-old Skanzen is the biggest open air museum of Hungary and is situated at the foot of the Pilis Mountains, on the territory of a nature reserve. On the 60 hectares 312 buildings can be visited, all organised into regional units. The unique flora and fauna of the Museum makes its natural surroundings special too. The permanent exhibitions of the Skanzen take the visitors back to the rural countryside of 100-200 years ago, where walking among old buildings settled in a traditional settlement pattern, visitors have the unique experience of folk architecture, interior furnishings and way of life. Weekdays and holidays come to life in yards, houses, barns, workshops and churches: the housekeeper is busy in the kitchen, the miller pours grain to the mill-hopper, animals are loud in the farmyard and a bell calls the pupils to the village school.
Quite a big park with Hungarian houses from different parts of Hungary from the past. Many activities for kids, like candle making or other "do-it-yourself" activities, open-air games kids used to play before electronic gadgets appeared. There are several points where you can buy something to eat (soup, sausages) or snacks (cakes with different fillings at the "bakery", cookies). We've got an impression that one half of the park (left one if you look at the map of the park) is animated much more than another – or maybe it is because we visited another part in the second part of the day. In this second part we even did not find a place to buy a snack – only beverages were proposed or remained. The web-site does not provide a clear indication how to get to the park from the Szentendre railway station: the "local bus" schedule is from 2017 (it looks like it is still valid though) and the bus was leaving from 6th stop and not 7th (it is better to ask at the cash desk while buying the tickets for the bus). The visit takes the whole day and the park leaves a very good impression.
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The Hospital in the Rock Nuclear Bunker Museum is a thrilling, unique and moving place. Visitors can learn about the WWII and the 1956 revolution as well as the Cold War in relation to this former TOP SECRET nuclear bunker. It had an important role during the war and it was classified until 2002 and opened as a museum in 2008. The place ensures a real time warp into the past. Mobiles are not working inside. Do not expect a regular museum. One hour long tour departs every hour in English. Guide books are available in several languages. Unforgettable experience underneath the Castle Hill. The entrance is only about 5 minutes walk from the famous Matthias-Church of Buda.
What an incredible place, we thoroughly enjoyed our guided tour around this fascinating piece of history,our particular tour was in English (some tours are in other languages with a recorderd translation device,worth checking before you book)and we found the guide very knowledgeable and informative
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The Holocaust Memorial Center is a national institution established by the Government in 1999. In 2002, it decided to construct the building of the Center in Pava Street, outside of the traditional Jewish quarter, further emphasizing its national character.The Holocaust Memorial Center is one of the few institutions in the world, established by the state, that focuses entirely on Holocaust research and education.The visitors are welcomed into a unique space that was named as the most impressive in Budapest, beside the city's panorama itself by Frank Owen Gehry, one of the leading architects in our time. The modern building is organically linked to the Pava Street Synagogue, an authentic venue that once used to be the second largest site for Jewish worship in Budapest.The Institution is a center for scientific research education and culture. It welcomes visitors with interactive permanent and special periodic exhibitions, experience-based museum pedagogical programs and cultural performances. Guided tours are available in five languages and special, thematically focused tours are offered regularly. A bookshop and a cozy coffee shop contribute to a memorable visit.
The danger we face today, and perhaps always, when learning about terrible events in the past, is that we can be tempted to distance ourselves from the actions of people of that time by imagining that these were 'bad people doing bad things on a bad day'. Some historical wrongs perhaps fit this category. The Holocaust Memorial Center does not allow us the luxury of that distance and comfort. The evil, which seems yet to be fully acknowledged in our experience of Hungary, is that is was normal people, bureaucrats, neighbours, friends- people like us - who stood by passively or joined in actively, in the long-term, carefully planned, enthusiastically implemented process of stripping Jews and others of their rights, property, dignity and, ultimately, lives. The Center does a careful, relentless job of drawing us into the lives of individuals, and the more impersonal political and legal processes that were involved. The narrative is compelling, illustrated with a multitude of documents, as well as audio-visual and print narratives and resources. Some of these weren't completely intuitive to make function, but that did not distract from the power of the overall story being told. Physically, the Center takes you on a journey, with descents and ascents which help the transitions through the overall story, culminating in a reconstructed synagogue (all the more poignant for being completely empty when we visited) where some time to reflect and be aware of the empty chairs in that place is an appropriate end point. The presentation provided the best context we have seen (in our travels through France, Austria, Prague, Krakow and now Budapest) for how this process, and the bureaucratic implementation of it -which represents, to me, the real evil of the Holocaust- happened in not only Hungary, but more broadly. This is a hard story to experience - as it should be. And a necessary one. The Holocaust Memorial Center tells the story well, and is worth the time and effort to visit.
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