2024. April 24. Wednesday
Kossuth Museum Ship - Budapest
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Address: 1052, Budapest Vígadó téri hajóállomás, 2. számú ponton
Phone number: (1) 411-0942
E-mail: venhajo@europahajo.hu
Opening hours: Mon-Sun 12-24
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The almost 100-year-old Kossuth steamboat is of outstanding value in itself being the only paddle steamer which survived in its original form in Hungary. On the boat an exhibition of interesting navigation relics awaits the visitors. The vessel's fully preserved steam engine and paddle are displayed together with is steam powered "steering wheel".
The more inventive visitors of the museum boat can look back on the glorious past of Hungarian navigation. Admittance is free.
Learn the history of our boat in greater detail The Kossuth steamboat was built at the Újpest Ganz-Danubius Shipyard in 1913 for the Hungarian Royal River and Sea Navigation Inc. Its original name was "Ferdinand Archduke". After the Habsburg dethronement in 1919, it was given the name Rigó (Thrush) then in 1930 was renamed again as "Leányfalu" (after a village in the Danube bend). Regarding its function, it was a marketers' boat carrying people from Mohács to the marketplaces of bigger towns.
In World War II, at the end of 1944 it got to Austria with the withdrawing German troops. After two years' captivity, in the spring of 1947 it got back home into the possession of the Hungarian-Soviet Navigation Inc (Magyar-Szovjet Hajózás Rt).At a 1953 reconstruction the vessel was converted to run on bunker oil and got its present configuration.
In 1955 it went over into the possession of Hungarian Navigation Inc. (Magyar Hajózási Rt.) In 1976 it was laid up, and for a long time was functioning as a canteen and houseboat at Újpest River-Navigation Headquarters. In 1984 its new reconstruction and conversion into a museum boat was started. In October, 1986 it was opened to the public.
Since then the boat has been reconstructed again and - in the opinion of many - has become more beautiful than ever. First, in 2003 the interiors were embellished, and then in 2008 the steamer's complete steel and subaquatic structure was converted at the Komárom shipyard so that the structure now matches the museum atmosphere of the interiors and decks divided by staircases.
One of the most valuable masterpieces of Hungarian industrial history served us for 80 years in its pre-reconstruction state. We hope that the restored Kossuth Museum Boat will delight us for at least as long as that...
The more inventive visitors of the museum boat can look back on the glorious past of Hungarian navigation. Admittance is free.
Learn the history of our boat in greater detail The Kossuth steamboat was built at the Újpest Ganz-Danubius Shipyard in 1913 for the Hungarian Royal River and Sea Navigation Inc. Its original name was "Ferdinand Archduke". After the Habsburg dethronement in 1919, it was given the name Rigó (Thrush) then in 1930 was renamed again as "Leányfalu" (after a village in the Danube bend). Regarding its function, it was a marketers' boat carrying people from Mohács to the marketplaces of bigger towns.
In World War II, at the end of 1944 it got to Austria with the withdrawing German troops. After two years' captivity, in the spring of 1947 it got back home into the possession of the Hungarian-Soviet Navigation Inc (Magyar-Szovjet Hajózás Rt).At a 1953 reconstruction the vessel was converted to run on bunker oil and got its present configuration.
In 1955 it went over into the possession of Hungarian Navigation Inc. (Magyar Hajózási Rt.) In 1976 it was laid up, and for a long time was functioning as a canteen and houseboat at Újpest River-Navigation Headquarters. In 1984 its new reconstruction and conversion into a museum boat was started. In October, 1986 it was opened to the public.
Since then the boat has been reconstructed again and - in the opinion of many - has become more beautiful than ever. First, in 2003 the interiors were embellished, and then in 2008 the steamer's complete steel and subaquatic structure was converted at the Komárom shipyard so that the structure now matches the museum atmosphere of the interiors and decks divided by staircases.
One of the most valuable masterpieces of Hungarian industrial history served us for 80 years in its pre-reconstruction state. We hope that the restored Kossuth Museum Boat will delight us for at least as long as that...
