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Hungarian National Museum

From the Synagogue, we headed down the street to a little falafel and gyro place on the corner that we’d passed by multiple times. It is the Hungarian version of fast food – way better than McDonalds! Then off to the Hungarian National Museum. It is in a beautiful building that Bug said reminded her of the US Supreme Court – lots of white marble and columns. The museum was a bit confusing to find our way to the exhibits. But even if there were signs (which we did not see), we wouldn’t have been able to read them in Hungarian! The Museum has a series of exhibits about the history of the Hungarian people. Now, you know that our family loves to learn about history – especially Bug. But we decided that there is actually a limit to the amount of history about Hungary that we’d care to learn. The exhibit was two full floors of a building larger than a city block filled with the history of the Hungarian people from the Stone Age through to independence in 1989. There were lots of signs to read that gave historical context to the various items they had – coins, pottery, clothes (SewDiva loved those!), documents, religious items – and lots of them (but not all!) were written in English. In the first few rooms we tried to read all of the signs but we were moving so slowly and were hardly to the 1600’s when we realized we would never make it out of the museum at that pace so we started reading less and less of the signs so we could move through a bit faster. By the end we were just scanning the titles to get the context of the exhibit, taking a quick glance around and moving on.
Guest post by Bug