Danube Palace, Neo-Baroque concert hall in Inner City, Hungary

Danube Palace is a Neo-Baroque building at Zrínyi utca 5 in Budapest's Inner City, built between 1894 and 1897 to plans by Vilmos Freund with builders Géza Márkus, Mészáros and Gerstenberger. Its pale yellow corner facade has a rounded domed tower, a rusticated base with a niche bust, and two corner balconies. Inside are a 292-seat theatre hall with a cupola painted by Lajos Márk, an 88-seat chamber hall, the Brown Salon, the Széchenyi Room and a restaurant for 250–400 guests.

The Danube Palace was built between 1894 and 1897 to plans by Vilmos Freund, with builders Géza Márkus, Mészáros and Gerstenberger, as the seat of the Lipótváros Casino, an aristocratic club for entertainment and charity evenings that supported young artists. It took its present form in 1941. Nationalised after the war, it has served the Ministry of Internal Affairs' cultural programmes since 1951.

The building was the seat of the Lipótváros Casino until 1945, an aristocratic club that held charity evenings and supported young artists; Mark Twain and Antonín Dvořák appeared among its guests. Since 1951 it has served the cultural programmes of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and it houses the Danube Symphony Orchestra and the Danube Art Ensemble.

The palace stands at Zrínyi utca 5 in Budapest's District V, a short walk from the Danube embankment and the bridges. Its halls range from the 88-seat chamber hall to the 292-seat theatre hall and a restaurant for 250 to 400 guests, so the room you enter depends on the event. During elections the National Election Office has used the building as its centre.

The Theatre Hall's domed ceiling is the reason the building is protected, and it is the only theatre in Hungary with a cupola. Its paintings are by Lajos Márk, and a lyre above the stage is original decoration. Nineteenth-century tunnels in the walls still draw cold air from the cellar by pressure difference, now backed by modern air conditioning.