Hey, Jude, come and visit The Beatles Museum in Hungary

If you travel to Eger, do not miss out on the famous Egri Road Beatles Museum. It is the only Beatles collection in Hungary, and also the best one in Central-Europe. It is a must see, not only for music fans, but everybody. If you do not listen to The Beatles, after seeing this marvellous collection and getting a gasp of their life and music, you certainly will.

The collection consists of about 2,000 items, but Gábor Peterdi, one of the creators of the museum says that he has so many more Beatles objects that he will put together another collection soon, in Ózd, for which he will not use any of the items already exhibited in Eger. He also told us that he plans on expanding the museum, which is now arranged in three floors.

The visit starts in the cellar – in a stylistic way, because the story of the Beatles-boys started during the war, and the cellar resembles a bomb shelter. Here we can take a seat and enjoy a Beatles concert, then a movie about the childhood of the guys, and how they met and formed a band. The cellar, at the same time, is similar to the first club where the guys used to play: the Cavern. We get to know about the rock stars of the age, the main influencers of the band. There was also a mention of a famous Hungarian, Dezső Hoffmann, who became known for being the photographer of The Beatles.

We can follow how the boys came up with the iconic hairstyle and how their style changed through time. There are many dresses and boots exhibited. The tour is a travel in time: you go from the beginnings to the end and get an insight to the different eras in the band’s life. It is emphasised how they regarded their work as a complex artistic project: not only the music, but looks, album covers, pictures were just as important for them, in which they were pioneers of their age.