Location Scout in Budapest: The Museum of Fine Arts
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The Museum of Fine Arts Budapest does not only house over 100,000 treasures from antiquity to the nineteenth century; the building is a treasure itself. It’s one of the grand dames of architecture in a city filled with jaw-droppingly beautiful buildings.
The Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest. Picture via Wikipedia.
Located at Heroes’ Square at the end of Andrássy Boulevard, the museum was built between 1900 and 1906 in an eclectic-neoclassical style by architects Albert Schickedanz and Fülöp Herzog. Opened in 1906, the building is a stone’s throw from Vajdahunyad Castle and the expansive City Park.
Hundreds of thousands of people pass through its elegant columns every year to view its ancient civilization collection and the works of old masters such as da Vinci, Raphael and Velázquez. Moving between the exhibitions, the halls of the museum unfold as a rich and dramatic backdrop to the art works themselves.
Extensive renovations to the building that were completed in stages, first in 2018 and then in 2022, mean that visitors can marvel at the Romanesque Hall and all the representative halls (including the Renaissance and Baroque Halls) for the first time since the 1920s.
Renaissance Hall. Photo via The Museum of Fine Arts.
The opulent Renaissance Hall–as its name suggests–is reminiscent of palaces of the era, while the Romanesque hall–with its decorative fresco paintings–represents typical medieval architecture. It’s little wonder that these great halls have already made their debut on the screen in the film Now You See Me: Now You Don’t 3 (2025) and the TV series, Moon Knight (2022).
The Romanesque Hall. Photo via Wikipedia.
The Museum of Fine Arts is just one highlight in Budapest’s thriving film landscape, which includes the historic opera house, grand cafés and boulevards as well as city streets that have stood in for a range of cities around the world. Budapest and Hungary continue to attract international productions looking for diversity in locations along with top-tier soundstages, infrastructure and professional local crews.
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