Modern Hungarian Gallery — Attraction in Pécsi járás

Interesting collection, but please, please let us breath!

As soon as I paid for the ticket at the entrance, a lady was assigned the task to follow me through the whole museum. She thoroughly watched every single one of my moves from the first to the last moment, an oppressive behavior that clearly made the experience difficult to enjoy. It even reached comical proportion at times such as when the lady stood so close to me that I couldn't even read the paintings' caption.

In decades of museum visits across the world, I've had my faire share of zealous museum keepers (especially in former Socialist Republics), but the Pécs Modern Gallery clearly emerges as the most oppressive museum experience in my life.

As noted by someone else : the policy appears to target foreigners. Indeed, the Hungarians visiting the museum at the same time me were left to wander entirely unsupervised. She followed me, only me.

I hated the experience. Which, really, is a shame, since the collection is genuinely interesting! I was particularly impressed by the collection of local tüzzománc from the 70's.

If you're a foreigner planning to visit the museum, please go but expect to be treated like a...

A great overview of Hungarian painting from the late 1800s onwards. The three floors of galleries are well hung and well lit; there are excellent written explanations of each room in English as well...

It s not open! You discover at the entry a paper with 2 phone numbers to give à rendez-vous. But at the first one, tne woman speaks only ungarian and can t answer, and at the second one...