Budapest Exchange Museum
Welcome to the virtual museum of the Budapest Commodity and Stock Exchange, which operated between 1864 and 1948. In our museum you can read about the history of the institution, the companies listed and many personalities of the time.
The Budapest Stock Exchange has operated in three different buildings in its 85-year history. On this page you will find a brief history of these buildings and many photos of them.
Buildings
You can also find stories from the most important listed companies.
Famous companies
Companies would not have come into being without their founders or key leaders. You can meet them on our website.
Famous persons
The end-of-day prices of the stock exchange were published in the Budapest Commodity and Stock Exchange's Price Journal for most of the day. You can browse through 20 volumes of this on the site.
Quotation journals
WHAT YOU CAN FIND IN THE MUSEUM
In our museum we try to present not only the history of the stock exchange, but also the history of listed companies and the people associated with them.
- History
- Buildings
- Securities
- People
- Quotation journals
- Films and photos
"What is needed is a serious, persistent will on the part of each of us, directed to visit, use and animate the young institution frequently, perhaps at first with some sacrifice of our habits, our desires and our interests."
Baron Frigyes Kochmeister (1816-1907)
President of the BSE (1864-1900)"As regards freedom of action, our institution desires nothing more than to do what is in the interest of the country as a whole, and to be free from any unilateral tendency, as it has been far from seeking to cultivate its own interests at the expense of the common good. "
Baron Zsigmond Kornfeld (1852-1909)
President of the BSE (1900-1909)"Our poor mother, this dismembered Hungary is sick, seriously sick, and let us put aside all other interests, real or apparent, and keep in mind the only point of view: what is necessary, what is good for our poor, sick mother: Hungary."