The Száraz-Rudnyánszky castle is a Baroque building surrounded by a large park and possessed of an inner courtyard. Twenty-eight rooms of the castle, which today serves as a museum, house exhibits selected from the furniture collection of European renown held by the Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest. On the upper floor, the former ballroom, which looks onto the ceremonial courtyard at the front of the building, is suitable for conferences, meetings, press conferences, concerts, lectures, and product displays

The castle is easily accessible by car and public transport alike. Visitors coming by public transport should take Bus No. 33 or 33/A from Budapest's Móricz Zsigmond körtér and alight at the Petőfi S. utca/Kastélymúzeum stop; from here the castle can be reached on foot in 5 minutes.

Address: 1225 Budapest, Kastélypark u. 9 - 11.
Tel.: +36 (1) 207-0005
Open: 10.00 - 18.00 - Monday is closed

The art of furniture-making from the Gothic to the Biedermeier

The furniture exhibition staged in the Museum presents the most important works in the furniture collection at the Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest. Over the many years of its growth, this collection has become unique in its own right. The most significant examples of its holdings from Hungary and abroad were acquired in the period up to 1914; in the years after 1945 it was primarily the 18th- and 19th-century sections that were augmented. It was in the post-1945 period that the castle at Nagytétény passed to Budapest's Museum of Applied Arts. It has afforded and still affords the opportunity to present furniture in an appropriate setting. The exhibition "Furniture Art from Gothic to Biedermeier", which opened in spring 2000, introduces European furniture art from the period 1440 to 1850 approximately. In the exhibition, staged over a larger area than formerly, some 300 items of furniture - individual pieces and suites - can be seen in 27 of the castle's rooms.

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