Budapest Museums Celebrate World Museum Day

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Art Nouveau glass at the Museum of Applied Arts
 

Many museums will also stay open later on Saturday evening and entry will be free of charge.

 
The Museum of Fine Arts will host an evening celebration of Andean culture on Saturday connected to the opening of its new exhibition Then the Incas Arrived. The Museum of Applied Arts will remain open until 22:00 on Saturday and offer guided tours of two temporary exhibitions, one of treasures collected over hundreds of years by the noble Esterházy family and the other of art nouveau glass from the workshops of Tiffany and Gallé.
 
The annual Night of Museums, when museums all around Europe offer special programmes late into the evening, will take place on June 23.
 
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)