Budapest’s Museum of Fine Arts is throwing open the gates to William Blake’s dream world, where angels argue with devils and visions collide with politics. The London-born engraver and poet, a model of the solitary Romantic genius who was ignored in his time, spent late nights inventing new printing and painting techniques. He saw himself as a prophet, building bridges between the spiritual and the tangible. His work fed on radical politics, fervent faith, and hard-won personal battles—and it shows.
Exhibition Tours: Inside a Vision
Dive into the English Romantic imagination with “Menny és pokol házassága közelről” (The Marriage of Heaven and Hell Up Close), a guided journey through Blake and his contemporaries, where mythic beings and literary echoes meet on the walls. Dates: 2025.11.07, 11.09, 11.14–16, 11.21–23, 11.28–30. Tours run 60 minutes, max 18 people. Price: $4.05 per person, plus a valid exhibition ticket. Arrive at least 20 minutes early.
Tours use tour guide devices; pick up receivers and headphones in the Marble Hall. Headphones are sanitized after each use. Want to bring your own? Tell the staff.
Unconventional Tours: Fresh Eyes on Blake
On select Wednesdays, invited guests—writers, visual artists, aesthetes—share personal pathways into Blake’s universe, lighting up British Romanticism with lived stories and sharp new angles, plus how Blake still stirs the present.
– Nov 5, 16:15–17:15: Kitti Jakobovits, bibliotherapist
– Nov 12: Kata Bodor, art historian
– Nov 19: Anita Moskát, writer
– Nov 26: László Győrffy, visual artist
Tickets, Times, Place
Full-price ticket: $21.05; discounted: $12.15 for visitors eligible for at least 50% exhibition discounts. Please arrive 20 minutes before the start.
Where: Museum of Fine Arts, 1146 Budapest, Dózsa György Road (Dózsa György út) 41.
When: 2025.11.05, 11.07, 11.09, 11.12, 11.14–16, 11.19, 11.21–23, 11.26, 11.28–30.
Bring curiosity—and maybe your own headphones. Blake will bring the rest.
