A lot has happened in the past 10 years, turning dreams and plans into reality. Thanks to the Liget Budapest Project, Városliget has become Europe’s largest, internationally recognized, world-class cultural urban development. Városliget is once again shining in its former glory and has become Budapest’s number one family entertainment park. Whether it’s young families, culture enthusiasts, or nature lovers, Városliget offers richer and more diverse experiences than ever before. This year is no exception: exciting and free family programs and special exhibitions await visitors to the Liget.
Free Family Programs
Between May 31 and August 30, free cycling KRESZ (traffic rules) school sessions will take place every Saturday at the newly renovated KRESZ Park in 2024. Children aged 5 to 10 can learn the basics of safe and accident-free traffic as well as traffic rules. The sessions are free for Liget+Kölyök members but require registration.
Every Saturday all summer long, KRESZ school sessions in the Liget
From June 1, every Sunday morning, the area next to the Large Playground, surrounded by plane trees, will once again be filled, as several times during the summer, free children’s theater performances will be held from 10 a.m., targeting preschoolers and young schoolchildren and their parents. The performances will be presented in an easy-to-understand, verse format, and the small groups of actors will also involve the children in the productions playfully.
Free children's theater performances every other week in the park
Impressive Exhibitions
A spectacular exhibition titled Hungary’s Guardian Angel: The Angel Gabriel Statue of Heroes’ Square is now hosted at the Városliget Visitor Center. The occasion for the exhibition is that the Angel Gabriel statue, standing at Heroes’ Square, was removed for restoration for the first time in 120 years in 2024. The exhibition features an exact replica of the statue, archival footage evoking the period of the Millennium Monument’s creation, and a time capsule discovered during the restoration of the monument’s column head.
It is also worth visiting the Listen temporary exhibition at the House of Music, which takes visitors on a musical journey around the world. The exhibition introduces the living and unique musical traditions of our planet, from Georgia to Belize, from Crete to Patagonia, and from Iceland to India.
The Museum of Fine Arts invites visitors to a thrilling investigation with its MS Master and His Era exhibition, where guests can explore Hungarian art of the 15th and 16th centuries while solving a centuries-old mystery: Who was the most enigmatic genius of medieval painting, the MS Master? Along with nearly a hundred works of art, maps, models, silver items, and contemporary documents, visitors will gain a comprehensive understanding of late medieval art. Additionally, the public will see for the first time how the main altar of the St. Catherine Church in Selmecbánya is being reconstructed.
A true surprise is the first solo exhibition of Szabolcs Bozó in Hungary, which opens on May 29 at the Millennium House - NEO Contemporary Art Space. Szabolcs Bozó’s career is a true success story; from a London-based hospitality worker, he became one of the most expensive living Hungarian visual artists. The aim of the exhibition is to showcase how Bozó’s art has evolved in recent years, from the style known as “cuteness” to deeper meanings.
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Hungary's Guardian Angel: The Gabriel Statue of Heroes' Square Exhibition at the Városliget Visitor Center