Having survived two terror regimes, it was felt that the time had come for Hungary to erect a fitting memorial to the victims, and at the same time to present a picture of what life was like for Hungarians in those times. In December 2000 ˝The Public Foundation for the Research of Central and East European History and Society ˝ purchased the building with the aim of establishing a museum in order to present these two bloody periods of Hungarian history. Dr. Mária Schmidt is the Director-General of the House of Terror Museum, which was completed in February 2002.

Dear Visitors,
We would like to draw your attention to the two temporary exhibitions beyond the permanent exhibition of the House of Terror Museum.
On the ground floor: Breaktrough - Iron Curtain, Pan-European Picnic, Regime Change
On the third floor: Katyn - Genocide, Politics and Morality

Tickets can be purchased at the cashiers. 
                                                                                        House of Terror Museum

Dear visitors!

We call your attention to the fact that from the 18th of January 2010 until the 25th of January 2010 the Museum will be closed due to maintenance works.
Re-opening on the 26th of January 2010.

Dear Visitors,

We would like to inform you that the Museum´s ticket prices will be changing from July 1, 2009.

Full price ticket: 1800 HUF
For citizens of EU between 6-26 and 62-70: 900 HUF
With international student card between 6-26: 900 HUF
Free admission for visitors 70 and over (for citizens of EU)

Group admission fees (groups of min. 20 person):
Full price ticket: 1500 HUF
For citizens of EU between 6-26 and 62-70: 800 HUF
With international student card between 6-26: 800 HUF

Audio-guide (English or German): 1300 HUF

Temporary exhibition ticket price 800 HUF

Dear Visitors,

We wolud like to inform you that our opening hours will be changing at the weekends. From March 14, 2009 (Saturday) opening hours will be 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

The House of Terror Museum has the pleasure of inviting you to the commemoration to be held on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the Prague Spring´s brutal suppression.

Addresses by:
László Sólyom - President of the Republic of Hungary
Mária Schmidt – Chief Director of the House of Terror Museum

Participating:
The Parafónia orchestra
Members of the Children´s Choir of the Hungarian Radio

Venue:
House of Terror Museum 60 Andrássy Avenue, Budapest 1062

Time:
August 21, 2008 at 5.00pm

On August 21, 1968, five of the Warsaw Pact´s member states – the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Poland, Hungary and the German Democratic Republic – occupied Czechoslovakia in order to terminate the process of reform known as the ˝Prague Spring˝. The armies of four of the countries left Czechoslovakia already in the autumn of 1968, whereas the Soviets withdrew only in June 1991.

The photo exhibition, The Crushed Spring - Prague 1968, presented in the House of Terror Museum, has elicited much interest in the past few months; thousands of visitors have already viewed the contemporary photographs taken by the staff of the Magyar Távirati Iroda (Hungarian News Agency).

The exhibition will be open until the end of October.