Applied Folk Art Museum

Between the Buda Castle and the Danube is a small museum that displays folk art. Not sure why "applied" is in the name, but it does have some quite interesting items to see.

Nighttime Photography Outing

I signed up for a guided tour to the best places for night time photography in Budapest and am pleased with the results. The young man, Miklos Mayer (https://hungaryphototours.com/), took me around on the Buda side of the Danube and clearly knew what he was doing and was very comfortable with the problems that came our way, as I will describe below.

In the image of the Erzsébet híd (Elizabeth Bridge) above, you not only see the city spread out on either side of the river, but you see the traces of the river boats as they moved while the shutter was open.

Hungarian National Gallery

On an on-again, off-again rainy day, we decided to do what it is the second sensible thing to do on rainy day. (First is, of course, stay home.) We headed to a museum. The Hungarian National Gallery is located inside the Buda Castle just across the river on top of a hill.

We took the bus and a couple trams get to the bottom of the hill and then bought tickets to ride the funicular to get to the top. We are not into climbing hills.

Várkert Bazár

We went to an exhibition created to mark the centennial of WWI. It is located at the Várkert Bazár on the Buda side of the river at the bottom of the hill on which the castle sits. This was wonderful, immersive experience. Three floors of a pretty fancy building have been turned into three layers of the history of Hungary (and Europe) starting in the late 19th century and ending (after a quick dash through WWII) with the 1950's and the 1956 rebellion against Communism.

Unfortunately, photos are not allowed inside or I'd show you more. However, as we sat nearby at what is quickly becoming a favorite place to stop for a coffee and a sweet to perk up the afternoon, we found ourselves becoming engulfed in what seemed to be a demonstration.

Semmelweis Orvostörténeti Múzeum

The Semmelweis Museum of Medical History is a place filled with loosely connected items. Some are connected to Dr. Semmelweis, such a reconstruction of a room in his house. His parents once owned a house/grocery on the same site. Others, such as the item above, are less clearly connected.

A Walk About Batthyány tér

We decided to take a low-key day and have a bit of a stroll about the  Batthyány tér area on the Buda side of the Danube. Right on the square is Budapest-Felsővízivárosi Szent Anna plébániatemplom, the St. Anna Parish Church of Budapest-Upper Town. As you will see, we really picked the wrong day to visit churches...they were all closed on a Saturday. But we enjoyed them from the outside.