Transport Museum of Budapest
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The KOZLEKEDESI Muzeum - Transport Museum of Budapest is one of Europe’s oldest transportation collections.
It is a must for railway connoisseurs and amateurs. This museum has a unique collection of locomotives and wagons on a 1:5 scale. This means that a locomotive of, for example, 10 m length is reproduced with all details in a 2 m length model. The models represent a wide range of railway technology. The museum shows also a locomotive and wagon in real size with a railway station of the 1900s.
In other parts of the museum are shown : The history of road traffic: horse-drawn and machine-driven vehicles, road and bridge building with a collection of old cars, motorcycles and bicycles.
The history of sailing. Sailing from the prehistoric ages; the history of Hungarian boat manufacturing, showed by models.
Permanent exhibition about the history of flight and space flight Original Hungarian and foreign airplanes, including JUNKERS F-13 the first airplane in the world with metal frame-work. The cabin of the first Hungarian astronaut, Bertalan Farkas. Development of engines and instruments. Modern rocket-technique.
The history of town traffic shows the public traffic in Buda and Pest before the appearance of trams and buses. The 'Omnibusz' and the first trams in Budapest.
[edit] Visitor information
- Address: 11 Városliget körút, XIV Budapest
Southeastern corner of City Park
- Open from 27 September to 1 May:
- On weekdays (except Monday): 10 - 17h
- On Saturday and Sunday: 10 - 18h
- From 1 May to 26 September:
- Every day (except Monday): 10 - 18h
- Entrance: 200 Ft
