Hungary’s most popular museums, according to TripAdvisor

The list of the most popular Hungarian museums by TripAdvisor came out with some interesting results, origo.hu reports. The top 10 list is dominated by a perhaps less known museum which nevertheless overtook the likes of the Hungarian National Museum or the National Gallery.

The Hospital in the Rock Nuclear Bunker Museum took the No. 1 spot on the TripAdvisor travel website’s list, which was based on user-generated feedback. The Hospital in the Rock, deep beneath the Castle Hill, used to be an underground hospital and nuclear shelter in the 20^th century. Around 200 wax figures, original furnishing, and hospital equipment helps visitors to experience the events and the atmosphere of the Second World War, 1956, and the Cold War.

The Hospital in the Rock overtook some of the most well-known museums in the country. Eight out of ten museums on the list are in Budapest, the other two are the Zsolnay Museum in Pécs and the Margit Kovács Museum in Szentendre.

The most popular museums in Hungary

1. Hospital in the Rock Nuclear Bunker Museum, Budapest

Hospital and nuclear shelter turned museum in the caverns under Buda Castle, built in the 1930s.
1012 Budapest, Lovas Street 4/c.
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2. House of Terror Museum, Budapest

Museum display about the communist and fascist regimes in Hungary in the 20^th century. The building that houses the exhibition used to be the headquarters of the secret police after WWII.
1062, Budapest, Andrássy Avenue 60
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3. Holocaust Memorial Center, Budapest

A renovated synagogue from the 1920s which is now a memorial and a museum that commemorates the Hungarian Jews killed in the Holocaust.
1094, Budapest, Páva Street 39.
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4. Zsolnay Museum, Pécs

The oldest residential building in Pécs houses the ceramics collection of the Zsolnay Porcelain Manufacture. The factory is known for its signature iridescent eosin glaze and pyrogranite ceramics.
7621, Pécs, Káptalan Street 2.
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