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Museums Attractions In Pest County

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Pest is the eastern, mostly flat part of Budapest, Hungary, comprising about two thirds of the city's territory. It is separated from Buda and Óbuda, the western parts of Budapest, by the Danube River. Among its most notable parts are the Inner City, including the Hungarian Parliament, Heroes' Square and Andrássy Avenue. In colloquial Hungarian, Pest is often used for the whole capital of Budapest. The three parts of Budapest united in 1873.
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Museums Attractions In Pest County

  • 2. Margit Kovacs Ceramic Museum (Kovacs Margit Museum) Szentendre
    Margit Kovács was a Hungarian ceramist and sculptor.
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  • 5. Hungarian Open Air Museum (Szabadteri Neprajzi Muzeum) Szentendre
    The Hungarian Open Air Museum is Hungary’s largest outdoor collection, founded in 1967. The open-air museum shows Carpathian folk architecture and life in various areas of Hungary. Inspired by the creation of Skansen, established in Stockholm in 1891, the Hungarian facility in Szentendre was founded in 1967 after years of preparation by ethnographers. Opened as the Village Museum Department of the Budapest Ethnographical Museum, in 1972 it became independent. The museum has an area of 46 hectares at Sztaravoda. There are eight areas of the museum: North Hungarian Village Upland Market Town Upper-Tisza Great Plains Southern Transdanubia Bakony, Balaton Uplands Western Transdanubia Kisalföld
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  • 6. Matyas Kiraly Museum Visegrad
    Matthias Corvinus, also called Matthias I , was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1458 to 1490. After conducting several military campaigns, he was elected King of Bohemia in 1469 and adopted the title Duke of Austria in 1487. He was the son of John Hunyadi, Regent of Hungary, who died in 1456. In 1457, Matthias was imprisoned along with his older brother, Ladislaus Hunyadi, on the orders of King Ladislaus V of Hungary. Ladislaus Hunyadi was executed, causing a rebellion that forced King Ladislaus to flee Hungary. After the King died unexpectedly, Matthias's uncle Michael Szilágyi persuaded the Estates to unanimously proclaim Matthias king on 24 January 1458. He began his rule under his uncle's guardianship, but he took effective control of government within two weeks. As king, Matthias wa...
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  • 9. Ferenczy Museum Szentendre
    Károly Ferenczy was a Hungarian painter and leading member of the Nagybánya artists' colony.He was among several artists who went to Munich for study in the late nineteenth century, where he attended free classes by the Hungarian painter, Simon Hollósy. Upon his return to Hungary, Ferenczy helped found the artists colony in 1896, and became one of its major figures. Ferenczy is considered the father of Hungarian impressionism and post-impressionism and the founder of modern Hungarian painting.He has been collected by the Hungarian National Gallery, which holds 51 of his paintings, as well as other major and regional institutions, including the Ferenczy Károly Museum, founded in his birthplace of Szentendre, and private collectors. In 1966 the Hungarian National Gallery had a major exhi...
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  • 13. Serbian Orthodox Museum Szentendre
    The Serbs in Hungary are recognized as an ethnic minority, numbering 7,210 people or 0.1% of the total population . The number of Serbs in Hungary has drastically diminished; in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries large Serb communities existed throughout Hungary, notably in Buda , Baja, Szentendre and Szeged. The Serb community in the territory of present-day Hungary has its origin in migrations from the territory of medieval Serbian states during and after the Ottoman conquest of these states. Matthias Corvinus and his successors are known to have welcomed Serbs from the other side of the Danube, giving the exiled military commanders fiefdoms to rule and defend from the Ottomans. After the dissolution of Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1918 and after new borders were defined by the Treaty of ...
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