Visit Budapest’s unique retro museum!

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Would you like to drive a Lada in Budapest’s special retro museum? Now’s your chance! The real time capsule, disguised as an experience centre, is located very close to Elisabeth Square. The Budapest Retro Experience Centre welcomes young and old alike.

The ever-popular Budapest Retro Experience Centre is located just a stone’s throw from Elisabeth Square, at the very beginning of Október 6. Street, Funzine writes. The place will tempt Hungarian and foreign visitors, as well as young and older audiences, to travel back in time.

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Even if you’re not the biggest fan of retro, you’re guaranteed a good experience at the Experience Centre. Everything from anti-aircraft missiles to Ultra Detergent, brigade diaries and party offices to an 80s TV studio can be seen in the three-storey Budapest Retro Experience Centre, which opened in August 2021.

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The owner bought his collection from people who found it difficult to emotionally detach themselves from the past, or who are themselves professional collectors, Ripost reports. In the Experience Centre, you can find a jukebox that plays retro music, a 70s and 80s-style café, 80s-style chairs with red leatherette upholstery, TVs from the period and everything to make you feel like you’re back in the 80s.

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The owner, Ákos Horváth, was not a collector before. The idea of setting up a centre came to him on a trip abroad.

“I saw something similar in Berlin, and it was there that I realised how great it would be to have a modern retro centre in Budapest, in the city centre. This property used to be a run-down office complex, which we renovated and developed in two years. The first steps were based on my own memories, looking for objects at home that were part of my childhood,”

he said in February.

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I started looking for the objects 6.5 years ago, and now we have a collection of 5-6 thousand objects in the experience centre, which can be enjoyed with a guided tour, but even without that, the exhibition is still enjoyable, as we have added explanatory descriptions and voices, most of which can be read or heard in Hungarian, English, German and Russian,”

Horváth added.