The Treasures of King Louis I (the Great) of Hungary
5 March to 31 December
A cabinet display of goldsmiths' work, gold coin and finds from the king's seat at Visegrád, from a reign that made medieval Hungary one of the richest kingdoms in Europe. It sits in the museum's Medieval Lapidary.
About the event
The museum and its member institutions are marking seven hundred years since the birth of Louis I, and this cabinet show opened on the king's birthday to begin the commemorative year, with Visegrád, his old seat, taking further events through the rest of it. Louis reigned for four decades from 1342, and the yield of the gold mines paid for internal peace, conquests abroad and a burst of building, trade and craft; the first Hungarian university was founded at Pécs under him.
Little of that legendary wealth survives, and the palaces once famous across Europe are ruins, so a film in the room shows them digitally rebuilt. Any exhibition ticket valid that day gets you in.
Dates and times
- 5 March to 31 DecemberTuesday to Sunday 10:00 to 18:00
