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All age groups will find something that appeals to them from Passion pictures of the most excellent, anonymous “master

the wide range of summer programmes offered by the librar- M. S.” of medieval Hungarian pictorial art. Th e archaeological

ies, museums, and galleries of the town of Saint Stephen. museum named after Bálint Balassa, who died in Esztergom,
In addition to the Castle Museum, which shows the palace was recently renovated. Nearly 1,900 works of art and 2,000
of the kings and the primates of the Árpád dynasty, and the books were placed in the newly opened Visual Library. Th e
Cathedral Treasury, which presents treasures and coronation Turkish exhibits of the Balassa Museum were placed in the
accessories in the Basilica, there are many other exhibitions mosque building of the Víziváros (Watertown). Th e Water

that wait to be discovered. The cosy wine tunnel of the Pri- Museum of the Danube Museum is the latest highlight
mate’s Cellar below the cathedral shows the wine regions of among the city’s cultural programmes. It shows the past and
the Carpathian Basin and offers wines from all the regions. present of water management and water-related innovations.

The Christian Museum was founded by Archbishop János It also illustrates the use of the power of water, the regulation
Simor. It presents Gothic masterpieces such as the 15th cen- of rivers, and interesting facts connected to navigation and
tury gentleman’s coffin from Garamszentbenedek, and the climate change.

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