Földalatti Vasúti Múzeum
The Millennium Underground Museum, or Földalatti Vasúti Múzeum, sits in the heart of Budapest—hidden beneath Deák Ferenc square in the center of the city—and preserves the city’s first electrified underground line. The museum is housed in a rebuilt tunnel that once carried line M1, the oldest metro line in continental Europe, in operation since 1896. The original route ran from Gizella tér (now Vörösmarty tér) to Aréna út (now Hősök tere), with a two-platform station just 2.7 metres underground and a sharp curve near the square’s layout. In the 1950s, as preparations for line M2 began, that curve prompted a diversion of M1 under the square, leaving an 80-metre stretch abandoned and later repurposed. The idea to turn the unused tunnel into a museum gained momentum in the 1960s, and the collection opened on 26 October 1975, with a renovation to mark the 100th anniversary in 1996. …
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