The illuminated roof of the House of Music, Hungary at dusk (Photo: Liget Budapest / György Palkó)

CASE STUDY · HOUSE OF MUSIC, HUNGARY

House of Music, Hungary – digital experiences and internal systems

Web portal, online booking, an information kiosk and a staff intranet – for visitors and staff alike.

The project

Exhibitions, concerts, music education: three pillars, one well-run digital backbone.

One institution, many audiences

The House of Music, Hungary (Magyar Zene Háza), in Budapest's City Park, is a concert venue, an exhibition space and a music education centre in one. A programme this varied calls for a striking digital presence, flexible content management and well-organised processes behind the scenes.

WEBAPIX has been the House's partner from the start: the website was ready for the opening, and we have kept developing it ever since, together with the custom solutions around it – from the booking system to the intranet.

Institutional web portal
Custom CMS
Event search
Online booking
Information kiosk
Ticketing integration
Staff intranet

Three pillars in the House, three behind the scenes

Just as the House is built on exhibitions, concerts and music education, our work rests on three pillars too: for visitors, for groups booking sessions, and for staff.

The zenehaza.hu homepage on desktop and mobile

01 · For visitors

Cultural web portal and CMS →

Multilingual content management, event calendar, event and content search, news, galleries, venues and series.

02 · For schools and families

Music education booking →

Filter by session and age group, see available slots, with clash checks and automatic confirmation.

The glass-walled foyer of the House of Music, Hungary with its patterned ceiling (Photo: Liget Budapest / György Palkó)

03 · For staff

Staff intranet →

Internal news, staff directory, message board, HR content, community events, polls and notifications.

zenehaza.hu: more than an event listing

In the custom CMS behind zenehaza.hu, editors manage events, series, performers and venues in one place. Performance data flows in automatically from the ticketing system, and visitors find what they are looking for through the calendar, filters and search – in Hungarian and English.

Homepage
Featured events in a rotating hero, the three main areas (exhibitions, concerts, music education) and what's on now – all in one view.
Event calendar
Weekly, monthly and list views, search across events, and ticket availability visible at a glance for every event.
Event page
Date, venue, performers and description in one place, with direct ticket and season pass purchase.
Gallery
Photo galleries of the House and its events, managed as their own content type in the CMS.
On mobile
Every page is designed for phones too: the homepage, the booking system and the event pages work just as well on a small screen.

Booking in four steps

Music education sessions can be booked online, while the system checks and confirms everything in the background.

Age group and session
Visitors filter the programme by age group and session type – or jump straight to the next free slot in one click.
Free slots, week by week
The calendar only offers slots that can actually be booked; full ones can't be selected.
Booking form
A short form, easy to fill in on a phone too.
Checks and confirmation
The system checks availability and clashes, sends a confirmation email and provides a calendar entry.

The white spiral staircase of the House of Music, Hungary (Photo: Liget Budapest / György Palkó)

Staff intranet: the institution's internal digital space

A separate internal system that supports day-to-day operations and communication between colleagues.

internal and HR news, staff directory
messages, events, community activities
polls, quizzes and push notifications

Important information no longer gets lost in email threads – and everyone hears the same news.

Behind the scenes: custom builds for the House

Visitors see the website, but our work goes much further. Over the years we have also built custom solutions that make everyday work easier – inside the building, in ticketing and in content management.

A dancing crowd under the roof of the House of Music, Hungary (Photo: Liget Budapest / Balázs Mohai)

The information kiosk

A touchscreen kiosk in the foyer. It runs on the same content as the website, so there is nothing extra to maintain.

Built for touch: its own interface with large buttons and no header or footer, in Hungarian and English.
Tickets via QR code: every event shows a QR code, so visitors buy tickets on their own phone.
Kiosk-only notices: editors can publish announcements that appear only on the kiosk.
Always ready: after 10 minutes of inactivity it returns to the start screen, so the next visitor always starts fresh.