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• This museum tells the story of Hungary and houses a lapidary collection. The collections include thousands of archaological objects from the paleolithic to the early modern period, a historical collection of documents on social, political, economic and cultural matters, furniture, glassware, ceramics, seals, stamps, weapons, musical instruments and metalwork. The museum has a collection of over 1 million photographs dating back to 1874.   
• The museum's collections have been compiled into a central database available to museologists and researchers with a permit from the Director-General.  Details are available here.  
• The museum's Central Library has resources in a range of subjects related to its collections and has extensive and specialised resources on archaology.  The Library is in the process of putting all its materials into an online catalogue which is available at http://certus.oszk.hu/librivision_hun.html

Contact details
The Hungarian National Museum
1088 Budapest, Múzeum krt. 14-16
Tel: (36-1) 338-2122, (36-1) 327-7749
Fax: (36-1) 317-78-06
Email: info@hnm.hu

• The collection comprises Old Master paintings, prints and drawings, sculpture, Ancient Egyptian art, Classical Antiquities and art after 1800.
• Highlights from each of these collections are available online.
• Each entry lists the artist, title, date, medium, dimensions and inventory number, accession date and provenance.
• No archival resources are listed online.

• The Library of the Museum of Fine Arts is the largest art historical library in the country. It primarily supports the scholarly, educational and restoration activities of the museum, but it is also traditionally the library of Hungarian scholarly research and higher education in art history. Its prominent scholarly, bibliophile and artistic assets make it a resource of national importance.  There is an electronic catalogue which can be consulted at the Library.  It is not online.  Further Library information is available here. 

  Contact details
  Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest 
  Dózsa György út 41, 1146 Budapest
  Pf. 463, H-1396 Budapest 62
  Tel: +36 1 469 7100
  Fax: +36 1 469 7171
  Email: info@szepmuveszeti.hu

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