Ludwig Museum Budapest, Contemporary art museum at Müpa Budapest, Hungary.
The Ludwig Museum Budapest is housed within Müpa and displays contemporary art across three floors with 3,300 square meters of exhibition space. The rooms feature international and Hungarian artworks from different artists and periods of modern art history.
The museum was founded in 1989 by collectors Peter and Irene Ludwig and began at Buda Castle. It moved to its current location within Müpa in 2005, marking a fresh chapter for the institution.
The collection brings together Pop Art works alongside pieces from Eastern Europe, creating a conversation between Western and Eastern artistic traditions that visitors encounter directly in the galleries. This arrangement allows people to see different artistic perspectives from the postwar period onward side by side.
The museum occupies four levels on the western, Danube-facing side of the Palace of Arts (Műpa) at Komor Marcell u. 1. Its 3,300 m² includes an archive, a specialist library and a museum-pedagogy workshop. The Lumi space, created with a family-friendly museum award, gives visitors with small children a place to rest between exhibitions.
Peter Ludwig wrote his university dissertation on Picasso's image of humanity, and the couple's Picasso collection of around 800 works became the largest in the world. Budapest received three late Picasso paintings and a plate series decorated with bullfight scenes. At the entrance, a pig stares at a screen showing the entire slaughter process up to the mounting of a stuffed pig beside the television.
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