Ethnography, Exhibitions, Culture | Museum of Ethnography

On June 20, 2026, the Museum will have different opening hours than usual! Welcome our visitors from 2:00 PM Details

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Guided tour in the Angels and skulls exhibition (in Hungarian)

Guided tour in the Collection of Saddles (in Hungarian)

Angels and Skulls. Festive Paper Decorations form Mexico - Guided tour in Hungarian

Tent without borders

Migration and fleeing: exhibitions, films, conversations with experts, performances, Dj programs at the shared venue of the Musée national de l’histoire de l’immigration, Paris and the Museum of Ethnography, Budapest.

Advent in the Museum

Join us on the 3rd December 2016 (Saturday) from 10.00am – 1.30pm to concentrate on preparing to Christmas.

Museum is closed on 26 of January

Artefact of the Month

The journeyman cordwainers’ jug shown here is a typical example of a green-glazed guild vessel with sculpted design elements. Made to hold 14 litres of wine, it features a date of 1827

Artefact of the Month

It has been the task of this volume to seek out and identify such material: to scour the museum’s holdings for Jewish objects from both Hungary, and abroad.

Guided tour in the historical building of the Museum (in Hungarian)

Guided tour in the historical building of the Museum (in Hungarian)

Guided tour in the permanent exhibition (in Hungarian)

The Night of the Museums

The Night of Museums

The Museum closes at 2 p.m. on 8 of July

Museum is closed on 13 of July

Museum is closed on 18 of July

Tent Without Borders

Citypass Museum Discount

The Collection of Béla Bartók in the Museum of Ethnography

West of Transylvania, East of the Great Plain

Colouring for adults from our Collection of Drawings.

Night of Museums

Artefact of the Month

The history of footwear is closely intertwined with that of humanity: shoes have been a part of human life – supporting, covering, and protecting the feet of their wearers – for millennia.

Artefact of the month

According to the museum’s inventory log, in 1910, Baron Albert Nyáry (1871-1933), on a visit to the Nógrád County village of Piliny, collected two fired clay objects, which he described as an “Olah Romani idol and candlestick”.

Artefact of the Month

This scarf from the holdings of the Museum of Ethnography is both a fresh acquisition - having come to the institution in mid-September from the Hungarian-Serbian border area near Ásotthalom - and one associated that is with a topic now fresh on people's minds.

Artefact of the Month

In the early 20th century, a new form of harvest festival, the Festival of the New Bread, was inaugurated as the closing event of the harvest season, a period that in Hungary commenced with the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul.

Artefact of the Month

Artefact of the Month

In November, the month of its birth as an institution, the Museum of Ethnography will be marking the 100th anniversary of the death of the noted Hungarian Africanist, Sámuel Teleki (1845-1916).

Artefact of the Month

Nativity scenes are produced in many places around Africa, not only by Christians, but also for sale to foreign tourists. Of course, African nativities incorporate figures, scenes, plants, animals, and objects derived from life on that continent, including people with elongated silhouettes.

Today Museum close at 1 pm.

Museum is closed on 27, 29, and 30 of November

Holiday opening hours

The Museum is closed on December 24th, 25th, 26th, 31st, and on January 1st 2017.

With best wishes for Christmas and the New Year

Guided tour - Traditional Culture of the Hungarians exhibition (in Hungarian).

Guided tour - Traditional Culture of the Hungarians exhibition (in Hungarian).

Visit in the storage of footwears - Guided tour in Hungarian

Guided tour in the historical building of the Museum (in Hungarian)

Guided tour in the historical building of the Museum (in Hungarian)

Codes of Freedom - Giuded tour In Hungarian

Guided tour - Traditional Culture of the Hungarians exhibition (in Hungarian).

Guided tour in the Pottery Collection (in Hungarian)

Guided tour - Traditional Culture of the Hungarians exhibition (in Hungarian)

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Musical Instruments Collection

Collection of Textiles and Costumes

Gypsy music from Ferenc Liszt to the Hungarikums

György Almásy’s Journey to Kygyzstan in 1906

Get to Know and Recreate It! - From Traditional Patterns to New Motifs

Museum is closed

With Best Wishes for Christmas and the New Year

Take a look at the new museum's design plans

Museum of Ethnography 150. – Images. Objects. Events.

The Discrete Charm of the Ordinary

Drawing on Books IV.: Luca Petrányi – To the Bottom of the Soaked Earth

Drawing on Books V.: Thury Lili – “a little swing from the morning”

Lala Tóth: Undressing the Past

Variations on Turquoise

Drawing on Books VII.: Eszter Bross: Secret Love

Source and Creativity – A Gallery of Creative Processes

Closing soon! The Voice of Nature and the Human Soul from China

Zellige: Morocco's Historical Legacy and Living Heritage

Museum of Ethnography offers educational programs and activities for all ages

Museum of Ethnography offers educational programs and activities for all ages

Museum of Ethnography offers educational programs and activities for all ages

Online Collections

West of Transylvania, East of the Great Plain (in Hungarian)

The Collection of Béla Bartók in the Museum of Ethnography (in Hungarian)

#quarantineobjects

Baráthosi Balogh Benedek: Collection from the Ainu and the Amur aerea

New Acquisitions, 2012

World Press Photo 2013

Behind the Wall and Curtain: China

Souvenirs of Sasvár

Véménd 1916-1920

Photo Stories of the Danube Swabians 2008

A project of the Coordination for East-Central and Southeast Europe at the Museum of European Cultures of the Berlin State Museums

Romani Lives - Gypsies in Spain

Images and Gypsies - Images of Gypsies

The Ryijy lives On - Finnish Ryijy Textiles 1707-2012

More Than a Neighbor

Vietnamese porcelain - fragile images of the past

West of Transylvania, East of the Great Plain

'I was a humble filmmaker'

We Have Arrived

150 years - 100 artefacts - 30 researchers - 20 concepts - 5 continents

Chair Pairs - Contemporary chair studies based on the collection of the Museum of Ethnography

Harvest of Closure - acquisitions during the period of relocation of the Museum of Ethnography

I find thee with God, my brother! – Gypsy stories

Vilmos Diószegi’s encounters with shamans - compact temporary exhibition

Yanomami. Spirits. Survivors. Photo exhibition of Claudia Andujar

Charm of Seoul – What we wear, where we live

Suspension of Disbelief

An exhibition by Ádám Albert, Krisztián Kristóf, and Dominika Trapp

Whispering Land

SHIPIBO-KONIBO. Portraits of my blood – Photos by David Díaz

Fine Dining: Food Stories of Ancient China

Faces of Hunger

Closing soon! ’Our Most Brilliant Mind and the First Among Hungarian Scientists’’ Ottó Herman

May the Zithers Sing Merrily!

The exhibition has been extended until October 5 due to high interest.

Hungary in Colour

Heavy Fabric. Women – Traditional Costume – Life Stories

Serbian Christian Monuments in Danger

Rituals of Beauty

Baráthosi Balogh Benedek

Der cifraszűr (in German)

VWhen Pablo Picasso and his fellow artists first encountered sculptures from Africa and Oceania, treasures of tribal art, at the beginning of the twentieth century, they obviously considered them as artworks. Do ethnographers and researchers, who understand the functions that these objects have in tribal culture, see all them as artworks? Do today's viewers see them as objects of art or interesting ethnographic artefacts from a barely known, remote world?

Objects Left Behind

Contemporary chair studies by Architecture Uncomfortable Workshop

Vilmos Dioszegi's photos of Mongolia, 1960.

Tura Between Past and Future

Children's Worlds #5

How We See the Finns?

New Acquisitions, 2008

The Spirit of the Budoh

A Village in Hungary - Átány

Ordinary Stories

Finland Through the Ages

100 years of continuities 100 years of change

The Kalevala through the Eyes of Hungarian Artists

Faces Concealed in Gold - Gold Masks from Asia

New Acquisitions, 2009

From the Land of Metal Music

Alvar Aalto Houses

Exhibition of the Hungarian Design Award and Design Management Award

Ceramics Space - Ceramics of the World

ZOOM - A Change in Perspectives

Collection Exhibition

Angels and Skulls

Codes of Freedom

The primary aim of this exhibition is to spotlight, through symbolism, the relationship between the Hungarian Revolutions of 1848 and 1956.

World Press Photo 2016

One of the most important press photo exhibitions of the world is coming again to the Museum of Ethnography, Budapest. World Press Photo 2016 aims to inform, and to inspire an understanding of the world.

Exodus – Witnessing modern migration

For the first time in the 100-year history of the Pulitzer Prize Hungarians were awarded in New York. Photographers Laszlo Balogh and Bernadett Szabo made it onto the winning Reuters team with their photos of the refugee crisis.

This exhibition take you into the wonderfully complex realm of folk tradition to explore the single custom - familiar to Hungarians across the country - of the travelling nativity play.

Two Continents One Soul

What can be the message of a Congo researcher from the beginning of the 20th century to our times? Emil Torday (1875–1931) who started his carreer as a simple bank officer in Budapest and Brussels might have realised his bravest dream when he accepted a colonial post in the Free Congo State in 1900.

Counterculture by the lake

Pictorial Collective

World Press Photo 2015 accompanying exhibition <br> Conference hall

WORLD PRESS PHOTO 2015

World Press Photo First Prize Pictures Selection

World Press Photo 2015 accompanying exhibition

Hungarian Researchers in Ethiopia

New Acquisitions 2013-2014

From the Székely Gate to the Last Towel

"Since You Were Lost..." The Jewish Cemetery in Salgótarjáni Street

Johannes Pääsuke - A Man with Two Cameras

Clay Shamans and Stone Jaguars

World Press Photo 2005

Hungarian Folk Jewellery

Where Three Counties Meet

Love, Wooing, Wedding in the 20th Century

MTI Photo - 50 Years of Pictures

World Press Photo 2006

Immortal Blue Jeans

Contemporary Clothing Chart

Feasts and Everyday Life in Csömör

World Press Photo 2007

New Acquisitions, 2007

The Umling Family

The Photographic Dynasty of Székelyudvarhely

Legendary beings, enchanting flowers

The Unknown Europeans

New Acquisitions, 2007

With Pipe, Drum, and Didgeridoo...2

This Beloved Home

Objective Inflection - Subjective Ethnography

Living Folk Art 2010

Franz Liszt and "Gypsy Music"

Women, Hand-Woven Rugs, Home Industry

Transylvanian Churches

Jewels from Oceania

World Press Photo 2011

Beyond the Body

Croatian Intangible Cultural Heritage on UNESCO Lists

Breaking the Ice

New Acquisitions, Newly Restored Artefacts, 2011

Exhibition of the "Royal Palace-Humboldt Forum" Foundation

Exhibition of the "Royal Palace-Humboldt Forum" Foundation

Cooperation of the Coordination East Central and Southeast Europe at the Museum of European Cultures, Berlin and the Museum of Ethnography, Budapest

World Press Photo 2012

Research on Sacred Song in the 1950s

Rakosi60@neprajz.hu

Saaremaa, Muhumaa és Hiiumaa

The Waterfowl People

OBJECTIVE_CASE → Subjective Ethnography

Picking up the Pieces

Nigeria Monarchs

Dispossession and Self-Respect

The True Story of Braziers, Pot Menders, and Trough Carvers

From Folk Songs to the Genevan Psalter

City of Cyclists

World Press Photo 2014

Beautiful Handicrafts of Tohoku, Japan

Still lives in the Szekler Partium

Charming feathers

Bocskor, Boot, Paduka

The exhibition explores the rich variety of times, places, uses, and meanings an ethnographic artefact can represent by considering an array of objects of a single type: footwear.

World Press photo 2017

21st Hungarian Press Photo Exhibition 2002

Images of Ancient Occupations

In Search of Adventure

An Invented Tradition

World Press Photo 2003

X. Bethlehem Crib Exhibition

Original, Copy, Forgery

Ethnophotography In Full Colour

World Press Photo 2004

Urban Portraits

"If You Want To Be a Piper"

"Only real shamans' dreams come true"

Huszka, Collector and Sketch Artist

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