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Military History Museum

Hadtörténeti Múzeum

It was established in 1918 from the museum objects collected in the Budapest Military History Archive together with Hungarian military historical monuments. The Museum is located in the west wing Ferdinánd Barracks, which was built in 1847 in Classicist style. During World War II, two-thirds of the museum’s collection was destroyed. After the World War II, the collection started to grow significantly again, today its weapons collection contains more than 50,000 museum objects from small arms, machine guns and other military equipment. The museum's military uniform collection contains more than 30,000 items, of which about 300 are complete garments. A precious memory is the five thousand-piece flag collection and the 28,000-piece medal collection. It also has a collection of books, fine arts, photographs, stamps, posters and prints.

Address: I, Kapisztrán tér 2-4
Hours: Tue–Sun 09:00–17:00
Price: Adult: HUF 1500; senior, student: HUF 750
Website: militaria.hu (opens in a new tab)

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