It was established in 1918 from the museum objects collected in the Budapest Military History Archive together with Hungarian military historical monuments. The Museum is located in the west wing Ferdinánd Barracks, which was built in 1847 in Classicist style. During World War II, two-thirds of the museum’s collection was destroyed. After the World War II, the collection started to grow significantly again, today its weapons collection contains more than 50,000 museum objects from small arms, machine guns and other military equipment. The museum's military uniform collection contains more than 30,000 items, of which about 300 are complete garments. A precious memory is the five thousand-piece flag collection and the 28,000-piece medal collection. It also has a collection of books, fine arts, photographs, stamps, posters and prints.
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Mária Magdolna-templom
13th-century Franciscan church was used by Hungarian speakers. Under Turkish rule, this was the only church allowed to remain Christian: all others were converted into mosques. During the Allied Siege of Budapest of 1944 several bombs hit the building. However, the real destruction of the Church was not by the war but the "restoration" of the 1950s: the church building was demolished by the anti-church communist regime. Only its bell tower and the side chapels escaped from the destruction. Only one stone window has been rebuilt as a memento. Today the tower is used as an observation tower. There is a 24-bell chime in the tower.
Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár
A state public collection institute that preserves documents that are national treasures. The institution holds a total of 73 kilometers of records, more than 63.5 million microfilms and countless seals, maps, photographs, plans and diplomas. The building was built between 1913 and 1923 according to the plans of Samu Pecz in Romantic, historicizing style.
Kazinczy-kút
Well sculpture made by János Pásztor in 1936. A female figure is standing on it, holding a candle in her right hand. The front wall of the base features a portrait of Ferenc Kazinczy, who was a Hungarian author, poet, translator, neologist, the most indefatigable agent in the regeneration of the Hungarian language and literature at the turn of the 19th century.
Az erdélyi kettes huszárok hősi emlékműve
Made by Lajos Petri in 1935.
Budavár visszavételének emlékműve
Made by Béla Ohmann in 1936. The winged female figure raises an apostolic double cross in the air with her right hand, referring to the triumph of the weapons of the Christian world. On September 2, 1686, the Allied Army of various European countries gathered the Buda Castle from the Turkish forces.
Bécsi kapu
During the Middle Ages it was called Szombat-kapu (Saturday Gate), because markets were held in front of it every Saturday. It has been called Becs kapuszu by the Ottomans. Later it called also as Jewish Gate. One of its two side-gates were removed in the early 19th century, and in 1896, the whole gate was demolished. The current gate was restored in 1936, commemorating the 250th anniversary of Recapturing of Buda. The rebuilt gate, designed by Jenő Kismarty-Lechner, has a more symbolical, rather than functional value. Inscriptions, ornaments and reliefs, including a running angel was sculpted by Béla Ohmann. Two parts of Bastion Promenade are connected on the top of the gate.