Egri Road Beatles Museum in Eger, Hungary

The Egri Road Beatles Museum is a private Beatles museum at Csiky Sándor utca 30 in Eger, northern Hungary. It fills part of the Hotel Korona building, cellar included. Collectors Gábor Peterdi and Gábor Molnár opened it on 15 May 2015, and its name is a play on Abbey Road.

Two collectors and a hotel cellar

The museum grew out of two private collections. Gábor Peterdi, from Eger, has been collecting recordings, relics and Beatles literature since 1978, and museum.hu lists him as the museum's director. Gábor Molnár wrote the Hungarian book Halhatatlan Beatles ("Immortal Beatles") and has collected records, DVDs and other memorabilia since the late 1960s. Hotel Korona Eger gave the collection a home in its building.

Singer-songwriter János Bródy, a Kossuth Prize winner, opened the museum on 15 May 2015. The name is a nod to Abbey Road. The museum calls itself the only Beatles collection in Central and Eastern Europe. By its own current count it holds almost 2,500 objects on 450 square metres, from the cellar up to the first floor, and has had visitors from more than 100 countries.

A Cavern brick and Hoffmann's photographs

One exhibit came straight from Liverpool: a brick from the Cavern Club, bought at an auction in 1983 after the club was demolished. Peterdi also brought in photographs by Dezo Hoffmann, the Slovak-born photographer who worked with the Beatles in the 1960s.

A visit starts with a short introductory film in the cellar. After that, multimedia walls tell the story in date order, with film clips, newsreels, interviews and concert footage at the press of a button, and the music on headphones. The cases hold period newspapers, clothing, models and limited editions. There are also mannequins, exact replicas of the band's instruments, a view into a Yellow Submarine and a large Sgt. Pepper display.

The Quarrymen in Eger

On 11 May 2019, the museum's fourth birthday, members of John Lennon's first band came to visit. Rod Davis, Colin Hanton, Len Garry and Chas Newby of the Quarrymen unveiled a portrait of Lennon carrying his original signature. The next day they played a concert at Eger's Gárdonyi Géza Theatre.

In January 2022 the city gave the museum its "Eger Csillaga 2021" (Star of Eger) award.

Hours and tickets

The museum's website showed it as open in September 2026. Published hours and prices don't agree, though. Museum.hu lists Tuesday to Saturday 10:00 to 18:00 and Sunday 10:00 to 14:00, with a 4,000-forint adult ticket. The museum's English page gives 5,500 forints. Neither is dated, and other listings show summer evening openings. Check with the museum before you go. The ticket desk closes 45 minutes before the museum does, and groups who want a guided tour should arrange it in advance.

Eger's museum is one of several dedicated to the band in Europe, alongside the Beatles Museum in Halle and the Beatles Museum Alkmaar.