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The Hungarian National Gallery is the national collection of Hungarian art, founded in 1957 and housed since 1975 in wings of the Buda Castle palace. It shows Hungarian art from medieval wooden altarpieces and Gothic panels through the Baroque to the 19th and 20th centuries, with works by Munkácsy, Szinyei Merse, Csontváry and Rippl-Rónai.

Hospital in the Rock is a former emergency hospital and nuclear bunker in the caves beneath Buda Castle, built from 1939 and used during the 1944–45 siege of Budapest and the 1956 revolution. Now a museum, it is seen on guided tours through wards and operating theatres furnished with original equipment and wax figures.

The Hungarian National Museum, founded in 1802, occupies a neoclassical building on Múzeum körút designed by Mihály Pollack and completed in 1847. Its exhibitions trace the history, archaeology and art of Hungary from prehistory to the 20th century, and its collection includes the coronation mantle of the Hungarian kings.

The Museum of Fine Arts stands on Heroes' Square in Budapest, in a neoclassical building designed by Albert Schickedanz and Fülöp Herzog and completed in 1906. Its collection of international art covers Egyptian and classical antiquities, European old master paintings, sculpture and graphic art; the restored Romanesque Hall reopened in 2018.

Memento Park is an open-air museum in south-west Budapest that gathers statues and memorials removed from the city's streets after the end of communist rule. Opened in 1993 and designed by Ákos Eleőd, it shows figures of Lenin, Marx, Engels and Hungarian communist leaders, and a replica of the tribune with Stalin's boots.