This museum, founded in Budapest in 1988, houses one of the richest collections of Bibles in different languages. As is well known, this ancient book is read all over the world; it has been translated fully or partially into almost two thousand languages! Thus, the museum in Hungary has Bibles not only in the main languages, but also in translations into rather rare ones, such as Hindi, Esperanto, Lao, Khmer, and other languages.
All these copies were collected thanks to public organizations, and some were obtained from private individuals. In addition, the Paris Louvre contributed to the creation of the collection by donating a copy of a Phoenician column to the museum. It is made of black basalt, in which many cities, countries, rivers, and other geographical names mentioned in the Bible are immortalized.
It is worth noting that the museum contains not only copies, but also originals. For example, a Bible from 1608 that belonged to Prince György Rákóczi I, who fought against Austria's domination over Hungary. On one of the pages of the book there is even an inscription that the prince left in his own hand.
The museum's exhibition is divided into several parts: the first tells about biblical archaeology, the second about the historical aspects of biblical scripture, the third about how and when the Bible began to be published in Hungary, and the fourth presents Bibles in different languages of the world.
