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On the far side of the courtyard, the Budapest History Museum ( Budapest Torteneti Muzeum ; mid-May to mid-Sept daily 10am-6pm; mid-Sept to Oct daily 10am-6pm, closed Tues; Nov-Feb daily 10am-4pm, closed Tues; March to mid-May daily 10am-6pm, closed Tues; 500Ft) covers two millennia on three floors before descending into the vaulted, flagstoned halls of palaces of old. Due to the ravages inflicted by the Mongols and the Turks there's little to show from the time of the Conquest or Hungary's medieval civilization, so most of the second floor is occupied by Budapest in Modern Times , an exhibition that gives an insight into urban planning, fashions, trade and vices from 1686 onwards, with items ranging from an 1880s barrel organ to one of the Swedish Red Cross notices affixed to Jewish safe houses by Wallenberg. The remains of the medieval palace are reached from the basement via an eighteenth-century cellar. A wing of the ground floor of King Sigismund's palace and the cellars beneath the Corvin Library form a stratum overlaying the Royal Chapel and a Gothic Hall displaying statues found in 1974. In another chamber are portions of red marble fireplaces and a massive portal carved with cherubs and flowers, from King Matyas's palace. Emerging into daylight, bear left and up the stairs to reach another imposing hall, with a view over the castle ramparts. If you feel like walking down the hillside into the Vizivaros, the river-facing route switchbacks past a Rondella and the former Palace Gardens (whose crumbling statues and terraces are on the World Monument Fund's list of endangered sites) to end up at the lower terminal of the Siklo. Aiming for the Taban, it's better to leave the castle grounds by the Ferdinand Gate near the Mace Tower, from which steps run directly down to Szarvas ter.
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