The Hungarian National Museum was founded in 1802 and is a national museum of history, art and archeology of Hungary and Transylvania - the area outside the current borders of Hungary. The museum is not to be confused with a collection of international art of the National Gallery of Hungary. It is a neoclassical building, built in the years 1837-47 by the architect Mihaly Pollack. On the interior of the museum worked Karoly Lotz and Mor Tan.

  The history of the museum began in 1802, when Count Szechenyi National Library opened to the public section. A year later, thanks to the mineral collection donated by the wife of the count, the library was transformed into a museum of natural history. In 1807 the Hungarian Parliament adopted a new law on the establishment of the museum and asked the public to replenish the museum's collection.

  1832-1834 Hungarian Parliament voted for granting the museum half a million dollars for the construction of a new building. In 1848, the Hungarian National Museum played an important role in the Hungarian revolution. On its steps in 1848, the poet Sándor Petőfi called on the people to revolution, reading his "folk songs".

  Hungarian National Museum has seven permanent exhibitions: one devoted to the general history of Hungary in two parts: archeology to the Avar period ending in the year 804 on the ground floor, and the story of the 804 to the present day on the first floor. On the modern history exhibits narrate the War of Independence. A separate exhibition - about the rise and fall of the communist system in Hungary. The permanent exhibition on the ground floor contains artifacts of the Middle Ages. On the ground floor of an exhibition dedicated to the Roman Empire.