Established in 1979 by the Capitol City of Budapest, the Budapest Cultural Center (BMK) is the professional service institution of the community cultural institutions, civil organizations and communities of the city, yet if offers its services to the widest audience of the profession and for the public. Its main fields of activity are to collect, process and publish information on art and community cultural activities, to organize training and further training for professionals in the field and to offer methodological services in the form of new initiatives, conferences and publications, maintaining a database and archive of methodological documentation. Quiet research into these information databases is further ensured by the fact, that the local head branch of the district public library operates within the same building.

The number of our visitors is more then 120 thousand per year, and the clients of the telephone and information services (included the web sites) of the institute have got a similar order of magnitude.

In our website you can search for useful information about the programs of Budapest and the county, about current tenders, courses and art schools – to conclude, about everything, which can be interesting for people wondering the cultural life of the Hungarian capital city.