Gold Museum Southeast Asia István Zelnik - a private museum located on Andrassy Avenue near Terézváros Budapest. The museum features about a thousand artifacts from eleven of Southeast Asia. Most of the artifacts - gold articles, covering the period from prehistoric times to the beginning of the XX century, the work of skilled craftsmen Southeast Asia, the past two thousand years. The museum exposition is based on the collection of Dr. István Zelnik, a former diplomat, now a businessman and collector, has collected more than 50,000 artifacts, more than 1,000 of them are represented in the museum.

  In addition to jewelry Gold Museum introduces visitors to the art and culture of this colorful and diverse region. Halls of the museum visitors carried through time and age when the culture of the nomadic tribes and kingdoms flourished side by side. Culture and art of the region greatly influenced by neighboring India and China, trade routes - both marine and continental (Great Silk Road ran it here) could not influence their mutual influence. The peoples of these lands were open and receptive to many religions: animism, Hinduism and Buddhism existed peacefully side by side. The basis of this collection are made of gold and silver artifacts Cham, Khmer, Javanese and other ethnic groups. Collection of gold masks superior collection of the British Museum. A collection of religious objects, Buddhist and Hindu statues is truly unique.