2025. March 10. Monday
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.
2007.12.14. - 2008.01.28.
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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"I will also be a doctor, but a doctor of the poor" - said in a film made before his death about the vow made in his childhood dr. Levendel. "Of the poor, the homeless, the alcoholics, the most wounded - of all'".The end of the film the director-reporter asked: Who is László Levendel, how can we term it? The professor doctor answer was: "A cod boy whom life made fulfil more and…more"

He survived forced labour, the concentration camp in Bor, the "strained march". At the end of 1944 he fled and walked to the already free Szeged and enrolled the university. In 1948 he was awarded for his work with the title ‘the best university student of Hungary" and was named an honorary doctor by the university. In 1951 during the concept trials he began his doctor career under great harshness. As a punishment he was sent to Kútvölgy near Hódmezővásárhely where he attended fatally ill lung patients. From 1952 to his death, he worked at the National Pulmonology Institute with, among others, Árpád Mezei. Via Mezei he met members of the European School, a fine art studio who were B-listed both spiritually and existentially: Margit Anna, Endre Bálint, József Jakovits, Tihamér Gyarmathy, Lili Ország. Many of them were his patients for decades. But he did not think of them only as patients but liked them and understood their art.
His wife, the doctor Mária Lakatos worked with the daughter of the sculptor Elza Kalmár, Ágnes Köves who had danced at the motion art studio lead by Alice Madzsar. She introduced the Leveldels to Ödön Palasovszky, Lajos Kassák, István Dési Huber and Gyula Derkovits. One of the artists, Margit Anna: Lonliness offered Dr. Levendel to the other, he on the other hand, with the words of the arts historian Katalin Dávid "was a doctor who was convinced that every illness can only be healed if the whole man, body and spirit, are both healed...
Has scientific literature ever established that many of the artworks of the "50-'60-'70"s was born only because a doctor, a friend operated in the background? His role is part of the art scene of the era...

He survived forced labour, the concentration camp in Bor, the "strained march". At the end of 1944 he fled and walked to the already free Szeged and enrolled the university. In 1948 he was awarded for his work with the title ‘the best university student of Hungary" and was named an honorary doctor by the university. In 1951 during the concept trials he began his doctor career under great harshness. As a punishment he was sent to Kútvölgy near Hódmezővásárhely where he attended fatally ill lung patients. From 1952 to his death, he worked at the National Pulmonology Institute with, among others, Árpád Mezei. Via Mezei he met members of the European School, a fine art studio who were B-listed both spiritually and existentially: Margit Anna, Endre Bálint, József Jakovits, Tihamér Gyarmathy, Lili Ország. Many of them were his patients for decades. But he did not think of them only as patients but liked them and understood their art.
His wife, the doctor Mária Lakatos worked with the daughter of the sculptor Elza Kalmár, Ágnes Köves who had danced at the motion art studio lead by Alice Madzsar. She introduced the Leveldels to Ödön Palasovszky, Lajos Kassák, István Dési Huber and Gyula Derkovits. One of the artists, Margit Anna: Lonliness offered Dr. Levendel to the other, he on the other hand, with the words of the arts historian Katalin Dávid "was a doctor who was convinced that every illness can only be healed if the whole man, body and spirit, are both healed...
Has scientific literature ever established that many of the artworks of the "50-'60-'70"s was born only because a doctor, a friend operated in the background? His role is part of the art scene of the era...