Museum of Ethnography

This guide to the Museum of Ethnography in Budapest follows a collection founded in 1872 that moved six times before finding a permanent home, from a bazaar near the old royal castle, through a City Park exhibition hall damaged by storm, to decades in the marble halls of the former Palace of Justice. It traces the return to City Park in 2022, where the new building's roof was planted to rise level with the surrounding tree canopy, and the field recordings composers like Bela Bartok once helped gather for the collection. You will hear about the protests that met the building's construction, and the argument it still stands on.