Discover 2026 exhibitions, guided tours, and family workshops at the Hungarian National Gallery in Buda Castle, Budapest—Impressionism highlights, Fényes Adolf focus, kids’ programs, and multilingual tours all year.
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Budapest’s Hungarian National Gallery at Szent György tér 2 in Buda Castle is rolling out a year packed with rotating exhibitions, guided tours, hands-on workshops, and special events for all ages. The program moves through Hungarian and global art, with returning favorites, fresh takes on classics, and family-friendly sessions that turn gallery-going into playtime and discovery.
On February 24, Ovisok a Galériában – Milyen színes! invites preschoolers to explore how painters worked and what artworks reveal, with a gallery game followed by studio making. The adventure continues on March 24 with Ovisok a Galériában – Virágok tánca, where budding sleuths hunt down spring on canvas—budding trees, fragrant blooms, sunlit colors—then craft their own bright season in the workshop.
Mama, nézd! shows return with themes that make seeing and saying go hand in hand. On February 26, A test szépsége traces how ideals of the human body—especially the nude—shift across eras, anchored by the refreshed Nude Sculptures from the Turn of the Century (Aktszobrok a századfordulóról) exhibition. On March 5, A zöld árnyalatai roams through sacred art’s Eden greens, radiant landscape palettes, and the shimmering Zsolnay eosin glaze to track green’s many moods; the same tour appears in English on March 19 as Look at that, Mom! – Shades of Green. A second Hungarian date for A zöld árnyalatai follows on March 26.
For the youngest visitors, Tipegők – A Tavasztündér birodalma on March 10 sings spring in with rhymes, songs, and play before a studio session. And on March 14, Nagyival a Galériában – Színekbe öltözött tavasz gets grandparents and grandkids discovering the same artworks through different eyes, then creating together.
Színezd újra! – múzeumi műhely gyerekeknek runs on February 25 with time travel through images of daily life—genre scenes, portraits, old photos—before kids draw, paint, storyboard comics, and spin their own tales. March shifts focus to folk life: village festivities, songs, table traditions, clothing, and décor, including tulipános ládák (painted hope chests), with creative sessions on March 4, 11, 18, and 25.
Alkoss! – Századok divatjai on March 7 spotlights fashion’s wildest historic swings—absurdly long shoe tips, horned headgear, and extravagant bustles—then caps the short tour with making badges featuring favorite artworks.
February 25’s Szellemi fitnesz – Életre kelt szobor blends love, myth, and the nude: stroll the permanent galleries and revisit the newly refreshed turn-of-the-century nude sculpture show, then make work in the studio. On March 25, Szellemi fitnesz – Húsvétra hangolva explores sacred imagery from Gothic altarpieces through Károly Ferenczy’s religious canvases to János Vaszary’s monumental Golgotha, closing with a collaborative workshop.
A napfény íze on February 28 offers a curator-led tour by art historian Edit Plesznivy through Adolf Fényes’s oeuvre, moving across emblematic masterpieces while opening windows onto his family background, training, patrons, networks, and classical sources.
Művésztelepeink – Szolnok és Fényes Adolf on March 1 untangles why artists’ colonies formed, how they worked in looser communities, and what imprint they left on Hungarian art—told through key artists’ works.
On March 12, Napfényes hétköznapok – Fényes Adolf művészete wanders through his sunlit interiors and rustic yards: how a peasant courtyard coexists in the shadow of French Impressionism; how a colorful Szolnok interior nods to Paris; and what century-old genre scenes reveal about the joys and sorrows of Hungarian rural life.
Renoir, Monet and the Impact of Impressionism on March 22 surveys how Impressionism reshaped art forever, introducing giants of the French movement alongside their Hungarian contemporaries in a one-hour, English-language tour.
Online tárlatvezetés a Tihanyi 140 kiállításban on March 3 brings the Lajos Tihanyi exhibition to your home, unpacking his painting via a live virtual tour.
Visita guidata in italiano on March 20 leads Italian speakers through the greatest hits of Hungarian art from the Middle Ages to today, spotlighting the 19th and 20th centuries—with a possible encounter with Dante among the canvases.
Tengerek hullámai, folyók sodrása on March 22 honors World Water Day by drifting through the gallery’s most beautiful landscapes: seas and rivers, waterfalls and rain, soundtracking the journey through Hungarian art.
A márvány csábítása – Aktszobrok a századfordulóról on March 8 delves into the eternal sculptural theme of the human body, where motion freezes and the instant turns eternal. Expect a spectrum of nude representations and layered symbolic and allegorical meanings, plus a look at how sculpture becomes reality under the spell of antiquity.
A legmagyarabb Habsburg. Kétszázötven éve született József nádor on March 14 is art historian Gábor Bellák’s lecture linked to the collections, offering background, connections, and rarities that don’t surface easily in the gallery halls—a magnifying-glass tour through the life of the Habsburg palatine celebrated as the most Hungarian.
Events run February through March 2026 at the Hungarian National Gallery (Magyar Nemzeti Galéria), 1014 Budapest, District I – Castle District (Várkerület), Szent György tér 2, in Buda Castle. Programs refresh throughout the year, keeping the gallery’s halls lively with new angles, shared discoveries, and art-fueled play.
