The Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest owes its existence to a Hungarian prince with expensive taste. When the state purchased the Esterházy collection in 1871, some 637 paintings made the journey from Vienna to Pest, forming the nucleus of what would become Central Europe's finest repository of Old Masters.

The building itself, completed in 1906, announces its ambitions with Corinthian columns borrowed from a Greek temple. Inside, the Romanesque, Renaissance and Baroque halls were designed as stage sets for a grand tour of European art history. The collection spans Raphael and Rembrandt to El Greco and Goya, alongside one of Central Europe's largest Egyptian collections, complete with mummies and sarcophagi.

VoiceMap's self-guided audio tours explore Heroes' Square's monuments to Hungarian identity, revealing how the museum's neoclassical façade was designed to position Budapest as a cultural capital rivalling Vienna.