Budapest Retro Interactive Museum Entry Ticket
Description
Curious about everyday life behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War era? The Retro Budapest Interactive Museum, located in the heart of downtown, is a great entertaining program for all ages. It showcases thousands of original iconic items from the communist era of the '70s and '80s in thoughtfully arranged, air-conditioned thematic rooms. Explore engaging quizzes and interactive games or read news in an authentic studio equipped with original live TV cameras. Three Soviet cars are on display, including a Lada car that functions as a police car simulator, allowing you to virtually patrol the streets of Budapest. See a typical Eastern Bloc family home with standardized furniture and everyday items. View artifacts from Hungary's 1980 space mission, including a spacesuit and traditional canned goulash sent to the Salyut 6 crew. Visit retro bistro for coffee snacks, or browse souvenir shop.
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The Retro Budapest Interactive Museum, located in the heart of downtown, showcases thousands of original iconic items from the communist era of the '70s and '80s in thoughtfully arranged, air-conditioned thematic rooms. Explore engaging quizzes and interactive arrangements, try on retro clothes through a special mirror, and read news in an authentic studio equipped with original live TV cameras. Three Soviet cars are on display, including a Lada car that functions as a police car simulator, allowing you to virtually patrol the streets of Budapest. Explore how children lived as young pioneers singing propaganda songs, and discover a typical family home in a block of flats equipped with standard furniture and knickknacks from the Eastern Bloc Visit our retro bistro with a jukebox for coffee and retro snacks, or browse our souvenir shop.
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- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Specialized infant seats are available
- All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Reviews(28)
Nice small space, but you need to be from Hungary to fully appreciate it. Still nice artefacts from the past.
Most of the 'interactive' exhibits did not work. Especially in English. Some interesting old toys, food packaging and you got to open and close cupboard doors (this makes it interactive) I love museums and this has to be one of the worst excuses for a museum. This is a terrific topic and could be done well...Sadly, it isn't. Keep your money or better still give it to someone else. You'll feel better than spending it here. (I don't usually write negative reviews but this one is truly a tourist trap with no conscience. )
This is a great museum to visit while in Budapest as it has many displays (interactive too) of how life was like during much of the twentieth century. One will experience via photos, video and audio presentations and artifacts the life and times that people in Hungary lived during this time. There is also a recreation of a television studio and typical apartment that one will see. One must also cite the creative way many of the displays are created -- pertinent objects are exhibited in displays that are reminiscent of the large, gray apartment housing built during the communist era. Much to see and highly recommended.
Museum very nice. It is explained the history of Hungary, old objects tracing the life of Hungarians really nice to do. We had a great time
My take away from my visit to this museum was : for those growing up in the east, it's a trip down memory lane. For those growing up in the west, it's a shock that our friends in the east were sitting on cozy sofas, watching colour TV, just with different propaganda, and regime.
Very retro feeling. Like walking back in time. So many memories if you are old enough. If not, fun to see what your older family members experienced. Multiple languages. Very interactive.
Some really interesting bits here all diaplayed nicely with some interactive parts. The toys and food were fun to see, imagine a local will appreciate more but if a tourist it will keep you busy on a rainy day
One of our favourite museums EVER! It is extremely cleverly designed and full of ha-ha as it recreated everything from soviet era phone booths to bathrooms. It was interactive allowing us to sit in Lada police cars, direct rockets from a communist space control centre and read the news from a 1960’s era tv station. We had a hoot!!!
Very interesting look at items that look extremely different today. Our teens enjoyed this experience..
Very nice museum, hundreds of objects, videos, cars, reconstructions of living rooms of the time. Lockers to open to discover objects from the past. Unfortunately we arrived from the opening in the morning. Between 2 very noisy groups, difficult to circulate or hear the animations. A little small to accommodate so many people at once. And then after the GDR museum in Berlin, it's hard to give an opinion.
