Jewish Museum

Housed in a wing of the Central Synagogue (the second largest in the world) Budapest's Jewish Museum was built on the site where Theodor Herzl, the famous Zionist leader and novelist was born. Containing mostly 18th and 19th century art treasures, exhibits are arranged in three main rooms according to their ritual significance i.e. Sabbath, holidays and life cycle ceremonies. A fourth room, which covers the Holocaust, gives a harrowing insight into the fate of an estimated 550,000 Hungarian Jews murdered by the Nazi's and Hungarian Arrow Cross fascists during the final years of WWII. Visitors will find the museum contains relics of the Hungarian Jewish community, including religious objects relating to its special holidays, articles used in everyday life and the Holocaust memorial room.