Óbuda - Kiscelli Museum

Kiscelli is a part of Obuda in which the Counts of Zichy built a chapel in 1724, followed by a monastery in the 1740s. Its name is linked to a copy of the miracle-working statue of the Virgin Mary of Mariazell (a place of pilgrimage in Austria) which is housed in the chapel. In the early 20th C the former Trinitarian monastery was purchased by an Austrian lover of art and antiques who had the Baroque gateway from a Jesuit church in Vienna removed and re-erected here. There is now a branch of the Budapest Historical Museum in the former monastery, which houses the owner's art collection and also documents and objects illustrating the business and cultural life of Obuda, Buda and Pest since the end of period of Turkish occupation. Especially interesting are the pictures and accounts of how Buda was retaken by the imperial army in 1686