The Hungarian national Museum was founded in 1802 and is the national Museum of history, art and archaeology of Hungary and Transylvania - the area outside the present borders of Hungary. The Museum is not to be confused with the collection of international art at the National gallery of Hungary. It is located in a neoclassical building, built in 1837-47 years by the architect mihály Pollack. On the interiors of the Museum worked Karoly Lotz and Mor tan.

The history of the Museum began in 1802 when count széchenyi opened to the public a National széchenyi Library. A year later, thanks to the mineral collection, donated by his wife of Earl, the library was transformed into the Museum of natural history. In 1807 the Hungarian Parliament adopted a new law on the establishment of the Museum and appealed to the public with a request replenishment of Museum collections.

The Hungarian Parliament 1832-1834 voted to give the Museum a half a million dollars for the construction of a new building. In 1848 the Hungarian national Museum has played an important role in the Hungarian revolution. Its levels in 1848 the poet Sandor Petofi urged the people to revolution, reading their "National song".

The Hungarian national Museum has seven permanent exhibitions: one devoted to the General history of Hungary in two parts: the archaeology to the Avar period ending 804 a year on the ground floor, and the story of the 804 to the present on the ground floor. About modern history exhibits narrate the war for independence. The separate exposition is about rise and fall of the Communist system in Hungary. The permanent exhibition on the first floor contains artifacts of the middle ages. On the lower floor of the exhibition devoted to the Roman Empire.