Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Art museum at Heroes' Square, Budapest, Hungary
The museum houses international artworks from several centuries, organized into departments that include Egyptian antiquities, Greek and Roman sculptures, and European paintings by masters such as Raphael and El Greco. The two-story building in neoclassical style provides space for rotating exhibitions and a permanent collection spread across multiple halls.
The building was erected in the early 20th century and gathered collections from earlier royal and aristocratic holdings. After World War II, additional objects from dissolved private collections were added, giving the institution its current significance.
The institution maintains the second largest Egyptian art collection in Central Europe, featuring artifacts collected by Eduard Mahler in the 1930s.
The entrance is located on the back side of Heroes' Square, and a visit typically takes two to three hours for the main collections. The halls are well lit and have wide passages, making it easy to move between rooms.
The Egyptian collection includes a fully painted sarcophagus from the Ptolemaic period, whose colors have survived for over two millennia. The inscriptions show protective spells and religious formulas meant to secure the deceased's passage into the afterlife.
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