The Museum of Fine Arts, opened in 1906, is among Europe’s most prominent museums. The Museum displays the treasures of international and Hungarian art spanning from ancient times to the end of the eighteenth century. After the most comprehensive reconstruction project in its history, the museum re-opened at the end of 2018. The permanent exhibition includes: Ancient Egypt, Classical Antiquity, European Art 1250 -1600, European Sculpture 1350 – 1800 and Art in Hungary 1800 – 1800. The number of artworks found in the museum today exceeds 120 thousand. A temporary exhibition opened on 5 April 2019 (to be closed as of 30. June 2019) is the first to bring Michelangelo’s art to the Hungarian public. Triumph of the Body: Michelangelo and Sixteenth-Century Italian Draughtsmanship displays eighty drawings by Michelangelo and his most talented contemporaries, including thirty of the master’s nude studies loaned from the world’s most prestigious collections. Michelangelo’s drawings allow an insight into the creative process of the master’s celebrated works, since he prepared all his creations on paper. Unfortunately a fantastic 2022. autumn exhibition of Matisse is already closed. Visitors were invited on a chronological journey through Matisse’s almost sixty-year-long oeuvre, which can be described as a series of renewals. After his early period, defined by looking for his own artistic voice and hallmarked by works such as Woman Reading [La Liseuse] from 1895 and Pont Saint-Michel (ca 1900), the artist’s spectacular painting of pure colour unfolds, which was the main aspiration of his Fauve period. These pieces were represented here by one of the masterpieces, Le Luxe I (1907), made in the period following the “Fauve scandal” of 1905, and by Algerian Woman, painted two years later. During World War I Matisse’s light-infused paintings with a vivid palette were replaced by darker-toned compositions with a geometrical character and at times balancing on the verge of abstraction. The chief motif of this period is the window, which simultaneously connects and separates the interior and the world outside, forming a passage between the layers of space. One of Matisse’s most enigmatic window depictions is Glass Door in Collioure [Portre-fenêtre à Collioure] (1914), which were also shown at the exhibition. The museum is easy to approach. The admission tickets are usually moderately priced. Credit cards are accepted. Museum Shop and Fine Art Bistro (and connected restrooms) are available for visitors.