Memento Park
Balatoni road - Szabadkai street , Budapest, Hungary
Contact information
- Phone
- 36 1 424 7500
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Opening hours
- Monday
- Tuesday
- Wednesday
- Thursday
- Friday
- Saturday
- Sunday
Closing time stands for the operating hours of the cash desk. Children under the age of 6 enter Memento Park free of charge.
Admission
- Adults
- 1800 HUF
- Students
- 1200 HUF
- Small children
- Free
Museums nearby
- Hall of Art
- 2,41 km / 1,50 mi
- Museum of Physical Education and Sports
- 2,99 km / 1,86 mi
- Albertfalva Region History Collection and School Museum
- 3,66 km / 2,27 mi
- Castle Museum of Nagytétény
- 3,95 km / 2,46 mi
- Rádió és Televízió Múzeum
- 4,77 km / 2,97 mi
Memento Park
Memento Park is an open air museum in Budapest, dedicated to monumental statues from Hungary's Communist period (1949–1989). There are statues of Lenin, Marx, and Engels, as well as Hungarian Communist leaders such as Béla Kun, Endre Ságvári, or Árpád Szakasits. The park was designed by Hungarian architect, Ákos Eleőd, who won the competition announced by the Budapest General Assembly (Fővárosi Közgyűlés) in 1991.The Biggest Statues and the Darkest Ghosts of the Communist Dictatorship. Soviet model made gigantic sculptures from the Cold War, from behind the Iron Curtain. Gigantism, waving comrades, Stalin’s boots, and the Red Army soldiers. The barrack-documentary explains the political secret service. Vintage gift shop and Trabant car. The Memento Park is one of the most unique tourist destinations in Budapest, and also it has great photo opportunities.
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Exhibitions and events
The Most Cheerful Barrack
Permanent exhibitionThe Most Cheerful Barrack houses three permanent photo exhibitions and a movie show. The photos and descriptions sum up two outstanding events in Hungarian communist history: one is the 1956...
Secret Storage Room
Permanent exhibitionHidden in the basement of Stalin's Grandstand, visitors find a somber bunker with mass-produced Lenin and Stalin busts, including an exceptional piece of propaganda art.
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