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Gigantic Ghost and Statues from the Communist Dictatorship
Memento Park offers an exciting travelling back in time, forgotten statues of the communist dictatorship from behind the Iron Curtain. Gigantism, waving comrades, Stalin’s boots, and the Red Army soldiers. Exhibition of the 1956 revolution and 1989-90 political changes. The barrack-documentary explains the political secret service. How to recruit an agent? Insert a bug? What are the secret surveillance methods? In the vintage gift shop contemporary items, posters and other interesting gifts can be found.
In the shadow of public statues from the communist dictatorship you can experience what it was like to sit in a Trabant car, you can also „phone” Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Che Guevara and many more former party leaders.
At memento park by taking the informative guided tour you will have the opportunity to get all the answers to your questions related to the subject: How could Stalin leave his boots behind in Budapest, although he had never even been to the city? Is Lenin holding a hat in his hand and has one on his head as well? What did Nikita Khrushchev say when he once visited the Csepel Factory? Why Hungary was named the „happiest barrack”? How many people could actually fit in the Trabant car?
On Stalins’ pedastal you can try out the „waving balcony” and feel what it was like to be a communist party leader in those old days on big communist holidays and festivals.
Within Memento Park, Statue Park itself is one of the most unique tourist destinations in Budapest, and also it has great photo opportunities for the visitors. It is an exciting and special place to visit when you are in Budapest.
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“The Memento Park is a museum of an historical era, simultaneously presenting the themes of dictatorship and democracy. The Memento Park was built according to the conceptual design of the architect Akos Eleod. An "atmosphere of dictatorship" is created by these threatening monumental reminders of... show more authority. However, in their new location, the positioning of the statues and accompanying buildings demonstrate to us that they are now simply the historical witnesses of the fact that there was once an era which expressed itself through these threatening symbols.”
(Geza Boros, Art Historian)
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Memento Park offers an exciting travelling back in time, forgotten statues of the communist dictatorship from behind the Iron Curtain. Gigantism, waving comrades, Stalin’s boots, and the Red Army soldiers. Exhibition of the 1956 revolution and 1989-90 political changes. The barrack-documentary explains the political secret service. How to recruit an agent? Insert a bug? What are the secret surveillance methods? In the vintage gift shop contemporary items, posters and other interesting gifts can be found.
In the shadow of public statues from the communist dictatorship you can experience what it was like to sit in a Trabant car, you can also „phone” Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Che Guevara and many more former party leaders.
At memento park by taking the informative guided tour you will have the opportunity to get all the answers to your questions related to the subject: How could Stalin leave his boots behind in Budapest, although he had never even been to the city? Is Lenin holding a hat in his hand and has one on his head as well? What did Nikita Khrushchev say when he once visited the Csepel Factory? Why Hungary was named the „happiest barrack”? How many people could actually fit in the Trabant car?
On Stalins’ pedastal you can try out the „waving balcony” and feel what it was like to be a communist party leader in those old days on big communist holidays and festivals.
Within Memento Park, Statue Park itself is one of the most unique tourist destinations in Budapest, and also it has great photo opportunities for the visitors. It is an exciting and special place to visit when you are in Budapest.
*****
“The Memento Park is a museum of an historical era, simultaneously presenting the themes of dictatorship and democracy. The Memento Park was built according to the conceptual design of the architect Akos Eleod. An "atmosphere of dictatorship" is created by these threatening monumental reminders of... show more authority. However, in their new location, the positioning of the statues and accompanying buildings demonstrate to us that they are now simply the historical witnesses of the fact that there was once an era which expressed itself through these threatening symbols.”
(Geza Boros, Art Historian)
show more
Hours of operation
Monday10:00 - 16:00Tuesday10:00 - 16:00Wednesday10:00 - 16:00Thursday10:00 - 16:00Friday10:00 - 16:00Saturday10:00 - 16:00Sunday10:00 - 16:00
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October 20, 2014
Brooke B. asked:I'm travelling from Prague to Vienna then Budapest in December. Does anyone have suggestions of places to see and visit while there? Any cities to stop through while in route? I've been doing lots of googling but I like referrals from friends better.
Seth C. replied:So when the iron curtain fell, most of the liberated countries destroyed any and all Communist statues. The way that it was explained to me was that because the Hungarians had been ruled by so many different foreigners over their history, they considered the soviets to just be one more. Instead of destroying all of the statues, they relocated them all of this Statue Park....apparently called Memento Park. Pretty creepy but cool. http://www.mementopark.hu/
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