We are pleased to inform all those interested in stock exchange and economic history that the virtual museum of the Budapest Commodity and Stock Exchange, which operated between 1864 and 1948, has opened today.

We are pleased to announce that, after almost two years of work, the digitisation of the Budapest Commodity and Stock Exchange Price Quotation Journals, published between 1894 and 1913, was completed in October 2018. The beginnings The [...]

  In 2022, we gave a new impetus to our Museum of the Walloon Carpet site, where we started adding new articles on a regular basis. So far, the history of the following issuers is available.

On 18 January 2024, on the 160th anniversary of the foundation of the Budapest Stock Exchange, the Stock Exchange Museum portal was officially launched. The launch was celebrated by Dr. Márton Radnai of Ramasoft Data Services and Information [...]

In January, we launched and presented our new portal, the Museum of the Wall Street, to the national media. We are proud that our initiative has attracted the interest of several major media [...]

A scientific article on the history of the Museum of Stock Exchange project was published in Hungarian and English in the journal of the Hungarian Banking Association, Gazdaság és Pénzügy 2024/2. The authors of the article are Márton Radnai and [...]

We are pleased to announce the addition of Csaba Domonkos to the Tőzsdemuseum's authorship. Csaba is the chief museologist at the Hungarian Museum of Technology and Transport and recently published a book on the history of the Chain Bridge, [...]

Our regular contributor, Róbert Szabó, has started to work on the history of steam mills. Steam mills were very popular after the stock exchange was founded, with nine of the top 100 companies. [...]

Although the Wall Street Museum is primarily a virtual museum, physical objects are occasionally added to the collection. This was the case this time, when we acquired a silver plaque commemorating the Győri Textilművek [...]

A new author has once again joined the Tőzsdemuseum, Mária Hidvégi, a renowned researcher of Hungarian electrical engineering companies and formerly the historian of Tungsram Operations Ltd. Mária has revised the E [...]

Róbert Szabó, the permanent author of the Museum of Steam, has completed the history of steam mills. The steam mills, mostly located in Budapest, were founded in the 1860s and 70s by grain merchants. Since they [...]

Csaba Domonkos, the permanent author of the Museum of the Stock Exchange, continued to work on the history of transport companies. Of the transport companies, the railways were founded between 1860-70. The largest [...]

A new volume of economic history studies has been published to mark the 100th anniversary of the Magyar Nemzeti Bank. The book was presented at a ceremony at the headquarters of the Magyar Nemzeti Bank on 5 February 2025 [...]

The Stock Exchange Museum portal has been extended with photos of the stocks featured on the site, available in Hungarian public collections (mainly the Hungarian National Museum). This means that there are about 293 photos, which [...]

On 5 May 2025, the 2024 volume of the Hungarian Economic History Yearbook was presented at the Szekfű Gyula Library of the ELTE Faculty of Humanities. Edited by György Kövér, Ágnes Pogány and Boglárka Weisz, this volume is the [...]

On 1 December 1925, 100 years ago, Hungarian Radio began regular broadcasting. However, the history of Hungarian broadcasting began earlier, on 15 February 1893, with the Telephone News Service [...]

Our regular contributor, Róbert Szabó, has developed detailed glossaries describing the history of stock exchange buildings. The old stock exchange had three buildings throughout its history: unfortunately, two of the three are no longer standing. The first [...]

In cooperation with the Stock Exchange Museum Portal and the MNM Hungarian Museum of Commerce and Hospitality, the exhibition "The World of the Budapest Stock Exchange - History of the Budapest Commodity and Value Exchange (1864- [...]