Actual

This collection contains a myriad of rare or no longer used objects from the world of trade and tourism. You can become acquainted with these unique items from the two professions in thematically organised units in seventeen show-cases.

Stages in the life of Gyula Krúdy

The exhibition invites the visitors to rooms where Krúdy spent the last three years of his life and where he died in Óbuda. One of the rooms presents the hotels, both good and bad, the rented rooms and bourgeois homes where Krúdy spent his days from 1896 to 1933.

Selection from the trade and the hospitality collection

'Good advertisements are aesthetic, and good advertisements are indispensable in society. Advertisements are products of trade, and trade is the result of the ever increasing life standards of humanity.'

/Lajos Kassák/

Selection of draft advertising posters by István Erdély, Tibor Gönczi Gebhardt, Jenő Haranghy, János Repcze, István Rottler and  Márton Tuszkay

This exhibition presents the decorated palaces built by insurance companies which were renowned in their time; many of these buildings are still jewels of Budapest.

This temporary exhibition titled ’Pajtás’ and its friends is about the Hungarian design, manufacturing, sale and use of cameras between 1950 and 1966, which is known as an industrial era in camera history.