Hungarian Open-air Museum

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The Hungarian Open-air Museum (Hungarian: Szentendrei Szabadtéri Néprajzi Múzeum) is Hungary’s largest outdoor ethnographic collection. It was founded in 1967 in Szentendre. The museum shows Carpathian folk architecture and life from different parts of Hungary. Its collection includes authentic buildings transported to the 63-hectare site and careful replicas of traditional houses and other structures.

The permanent exhibits cover roughly the mid-18th to mid-20th centuries.

Inspired by Stockholm's Skansen, founded in 1891, the Szentendre museum began in 1967 after years of work by ethnographers. It opened as the Village Museum Department of the Budapest Ethnographic Museum and became independent in 1972. Today it is a non-profit organization that provides hands-on education about Hungarian history, folk traditions, and material culture, and it aims to promote Hungarian culture at home and abroad.

There are eight areas of the museum.