2025. April 29. Tuesday
Budapest History Museum - Budapest
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Address: 1014, Budapest Szent György tér 2.
Phone number: (1) 487-8800, (1) 487-8801
E-mail: btm@mail.btm.hu
Opening hours: Tue-Sun 10-18
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The exhibition has closed for visitors.
2012.09.28. - 2013.01.13.
Museum tickets, service costs:
Ticket for adults
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2000 HUF
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Ticket for students
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1000 HUF
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Group ticket for students
(over 10 people)
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500 HUF
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Ticket for pensioners
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1000 HUF
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Ticket for families
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2200 HUF
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/ family
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Group guide
(up to 20 people)
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7000 HUF
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Group guide
(20-30 people)
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9500 HUF
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Group guide
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14000 HUF
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Group guide
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18000 HUF
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Audio guide
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1200 HUF
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Photography
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1000 HUF
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Only a few people connects the name of Sári Fedák a famous prima donna with Pestszentlőrinc. Pestszentlőrinc (nowdays the 18th District of Budapest) was a town at the southeastern border of the capital, where the distribution of lands were in progress between the two world wars. The most elegant part was the „Szalla-wald”, the area of villas and holiday houses near the Gyöngyvirág Street. The politician-physicist Loránd Eötvös, the inventor of the telephone exchange Tivadar Puskás and the biologist Tivadar Margó also owned a villa here.

Sári Fedák bought the Biehn-villa for her parents at Gyöngyvirág Street in Pestszentlőrinc in 1917. She became a resident only in 1929. Shortly she joined in the social and the political life of the settlement. She was not only "virilis", but also in 1934 she was elected to be the president of the National Unity’s female wing. Truly she hold the position until November of 1935.
The mother of the actress was buried next to her husband dr. István Fedák in the old cemetery of Pestszentlőrinc in 1935. The father of Sári Fedák died in 1920. During the burial ceremony a huge crowd was gathered. The ceremony was held by dr. Béla Wimmerth, a well-known local priest.
In 1938 Sári Fedák demolished the villa, the demolition materials and the land which divided into smaller parcels were sold. It’s interesting that the parts of the building (doors, windows, tile stove) were found in local houses during our researches. The locals are not denying the origins of the materials because they bought them legally.
On the exhibition the visitors can learn about the careers of the actress Sári Fedák, her role in political and social life of Pestszentlőrinc and her villa's fate. We present the appurtenances and the furnitures of the Fedák-villa at the end of the exhibition.
So the subject is settlement history on a slightly different way. The exhibition presents the living of the first half of the 20th century, the world of theaters and a present-day phenomenon, the earliest presence of the modern cult of celebrity.
The personal items of the actress are important parts of the exhibition. These objects are lent from Hungarian Theater Museum and Institute: Fedák's Memorial Album with metal ornaments, four-string guitar with the crest of Prince Bob on the obverse, her letters from Pestszentlőrinc.
The black cocktail dress with rhinestones and red beads visualizes Sári Fedák's former opulence and the pomp of theaters.
The exhibition consits of materials of Tomory Lajos Pedagogic and Local History Collection, Hungarian Theater Museum and Institue, National Széchényi Library's Theater History Collection and Hungarian National Museum's Historical Repository.

Sári Fedák bought the Biehn-villa for her parents at Gyöngyvirág Street in Pestszentlőrinc in 1917. She became a resident only in 1929. Shortly she joined in the social and the political life of the settlement. She was not only "virilis", but also in 1934 she was elected to be the president of the National Unity’s female wing. Truly she hold the position until November of 1935.
The mother of the actress was buried next to her husband dr. István Fedák in the old cemetery of Pestszentlőrinc in 1935. The father of Sári Fedák died in 1920. During the burial ceremony a huge crowd was gathered. The ceremony was held by dr. Béla Wimmerth, a well-known local priest.
In 1938 Sári Fedák demolished the villa, the demolition materials and the land which divided into smaller parcels were sold. It’s interesting that the parts of the building (doors, windows, tile stove) were found in local houses during our researches. The locals are not denying the origins of the materials because they bought them legally.
On the exhibition the visitors can learn about the careers of the actress Sári Fedák, her role in political and social life of Pestszentlőrinc and her villa's fate. We present the appurtenances and the furnitures of the Fedák-villa at the end of the exhibition.
So the subject is settlement history on a slightly different way. The exhibition presents the living of the first half of the 20th century, the world of theaters and a present-day phenomenon, the earliest presence of the modern cult of celebrity.
The personal items of the actress are important parts of the exhibition. These objects are lent from Hungarian Theater Museum and Institute: Fedák's Memorial Album with metal ornaments, four-string guitar with the crest of Prince Bob on the obverse, her letters from Pestszentlőrinc.
The black cocktail dress with rhinestones and red beads visualizes Sári Fedák's former opulence and the pomp of theaters.
The exhibition consits of materials of Tomory Lajos Pedagogic and Local History Collection, Hungarian Theater Museum and Institue, National Széchényi Library's Theater History Collection and Hungarian National Museum's Historical Repository.