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The new visitors' centre - a replica of a 19th century train depot from a city in southeast Hungary - is part of a HUF 2.2 billion expansion project started last year, said museum director Miklós Cseri.
The expansion project is being carried out with European Union and state funding under the New Hungary Development Plan.
After purchasing their tickets at the train station, visitors will start on a trip through the museum's seven "villages", each of which represents the folk elements of a specific ethnic Hungarian region.
A train, pulled by a Ganz-Jendrassik locomotive first put on the tracks in 1927, will take visitors on a 2.4-kilometre rail line around the museum grounds. The carefully restored train will have a capacity for a hundred passengers.
Preparations are being made to add an eighth village to the museum's "collection" showing the folk traditions of the Palóc region of northeast Hungary. The project is expected to be completed in 2010.
A museology workshop will also open in 2010.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI) / Photo: MTI
