Memento Park
Open air museum · Budapest ·
Open-air museum of communist-era statues, busts, and plaques
Open-air museum of communist-era statues, busts, and plaques
"Statues of Communist ideologues once dotted every city behind the Iron Curtain, but in the world's rush to forget the Cold War, such monuments are hard to find these days. Not in Budapest —once East and West came together in the early 1990s, the city decided not to destroy the evidence. It rather collected about 40 monuments of figures like Vladimir Lenin, valiant soldiers, and even a huge sets of boots from a statue of Stalin, and in 1993 put them all in a park about 25 minutes by bus from Budapest's city center. History buffs, especially, will find it worth the trek."
"▲▲ Larger-than-life communist statues collected in one park, on the outskirts of town." - Rick Steves' Europe
Anil B.
Giacomo T.
Ryan S.
Matthew S.
frances Y.
Rhonny Lanz R.
Péter I. S.
Unnikrishnan K.
