13 February 2025, Budapest: for more than 20 years, the Budapest Stock Exchange has held its annual BTE Legek event, which rewards the most outstanding annual achievements of the domestic capital market. The event is held in several categories and rewards the outstanding achievements of the previous year. The awards are decided by a professional jury of members of the Exchange's Advisory Board. By presenting the awards and holding the ceremony, the BSE aims to encourage the further development of the domestic capital market.

This year, the Money Museum won the award in the "Disseminating Investor Awareness" category.

Eszter Hergár, the director of the institution, said: "We gratefully accept this recognition from the Stock Exchange, because the Money Museum was opened almost three years ago with the aim of becoming a domestic center of financial education, and with this award we received confirmation that we are on the right track. The need for financial education among the general public is demonstrated by the fact that the institution has received more than 310,000 visitors since opening day."

Eszter Hergár underlined that the Money Museum does not only operate within its own walls. After the extraordinary success of the "Suitcase Museum - Journey around money" programme launched in the September of 2023, the museum's educators have launched the "Pocket Museum", in which they bring financial knowledge to kindergarten children through stories. We also prepared something for the older generation, namely the "Senior" programme which is already touring the country, visiting retirement homes and senior citizens' clubs to educate them.