Holocaust Memorial Center

About the museum

The Memorial Center was established by the Hungarian government in 1999 and opened on Páva Street in April 2004, outside the traditional Jewish quarter, a choice the institution describes as emphasising its national character. The permanent exhibition has been on view since 21 February 2006.

The permanent exhibition, the temporary exhibitions and the Páva Street Synagogue require an admission ticket. The Memorial Wall of Victims and the Tower of Lost Communities in the inner courtyard can be visited without a ticket.

Opening hours

Tickets & prices

Permanent exhibition — Adult

3,600 HUF

Permanent exhibition — Reduced

1,600 HUF

Temporary exhibition — Adult

1,500 HUF

Temporary exhibition — Reduced

750 HUF

Combined ticket — Adult

4,000 HUF

Combined ticket — Reduced

2,000 HUF

Permanent exhibition — Adult group

2,550 HUF

Permanent exhibition — Reduced group

800 HUF

Temporary exhibition — Adult group

1,000 HUF

Temporary exhibition — Reduced group

500 HUF

Combined ticket — Adult group

2,800 HUF

Combined ticket — Reduced group

1,300 HUF

Free admission categories

Free

Free on the last Sunday of the month

Free

Free on national holidays

Free

Guided tour in Hungarian

6,900 HUF

Guided tour in English, French, German, Italian or Russian

9,400 HUF

Jewish Quarter city walk

15,600 HUF

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What to see

• From Deprivation of Rights to Genocide

  The permanent exhibition follows the escalating persecution of Hungarian Jews and Roma through themes of lost rights, property, freedom, dignity and life, combining individual stories with original material and multimedia documentation.

• Páva Street Synagogue

  The synagogue built in 1923–1924 to a design by Lipót Baumhorn, once Budapest's second-largest, is restored and physically integrated into the memorial complex, forming part of the museum visit. It is not currently active liturgically.

• Memorial Wall and Tower of Lost Communities

  The inner courtyard contains the roughly eight-metre-high glass Memorial Wall of Victims, laser-engraved with identified names — about 180,000 so far according to the museum — with blank spaces for victims still unidentified, and the Tower of Lost Communities, on display since 16 April 2007, which records the names of 1,441 settlements from the 1941 place-name register.

Current exhibitions

• From Deprivation of Rights to Genocide

  Since 21 February 2006 · Permanent exhibition since 21 February 2006 · Approximately 1,500 m² in the souterrain exhibition hall, with the route concluding in the Páva Street Synagogue

  To the Memory of the Victims of the Hungarian Holocaust (Jogfosztástól népirtásig). The permanent exhibition examines the Holocaust in Hungary through the progressive deprivation of rights, property, freedom, human dignity and life, focusing on the persecution and murder of Hungarian Jews and Roma and using personal histories, original documents, objects and multimedia material. It is arranged thematically by phase of persecution rather than chronologically.

• THROUGH MEMORY – Narratives and Memoirs of the Roma Holocaust

  Since 19 April 2026 · Temporary exhibition, from 19 April 2026 · Temporary exhibition space of the Memorial Center

  An interactive exhibition examining how the Roma Holocaust has been remembered through personal stories, community memory practices, documents, objects and contemporary visual responses, drawing on anthropological research into the transmission and public visibility of memory. Hungarian title: Az emlékezet útján – A roma holokauszt narratívái és lenyomatai.

Practical information

Parking

Liliom Street or the Corvin shopping centre

The museum has no dedicated car park and publishes no parking prices.

Age guidance

Permanent exhibition recommended for visitors over 12

A recommendation, not an admission rule; children up to age 6 still enter free. One English ticket page instead says it is not recommended under 14.

Visitors with disabilities

Free admission for the visitor and one accompanying person

Under the museum's current ticket rules. The museum publishes no details of physical access, so step-free routes, lifts and accessible facilities remain unverified here.

Free memorial courtyard access

Memorial Wall and Tower can be seen without a ticket

The Memorial Wall of Victims and Tower of Lost Communities in the inner courtyard can be visited without purchasing an exhibition ticket. Exhibition admission is charged.

Guided tours

By advance booking, 90 minutes

Hungarian, English, French, German, Italian and Russian. Booked at oktatas@hdke.hu or +36 1 455-3324; admission is charged separately.

Café

A café is part of the complex

The museum's current institutional information states that a café is available within the complex. No opening hours are published.

Bookshop

A bookshop is part of the visitor facilities

Stated in the museum's current institutional information. No opening hours are published.

Ticket validity

Valid on the day of purchase, for one visit

Tickets cover the applicable exhibitions and the Páva Street Synagogue. The ticket office closes at 17:00; tickets are also sold online through Jegymester.

Contact

+36 1 455-3333 · info@hdke.hu

Ticket office: jegypenztar@hdke.hu. Guided tours and education: +36 1 455-3324, oktatas@hdke.hu.

Getting there

Address

1094 Budapest, Páva utca 39.

Area

Ferencváros / Páva Street

Nearest transport

Corvin-negyed / Corvin-negyed / Bokréta utca

• Corvin-negyed — Metro M3
• Corvin-negyed — Tram 4, 6
• Bokréta utca — Tram 51, 51A

No dedicated museum car park. The museum directs drivers to parking on Liliom Street or at the nearby Corvin shopping centre; no current parking prices are published.

Directions