Memento Park - Statues from the Communist Dictatorship

According to our guide, the park is not funded by the government and relies on tickets sale to keep running, which is a pity considering the historical value of it. In the premises you can find statues from the soviet era and understand more about how society and the regime worked back in the day. Also, taking the tour is highly advisable since the meaning behind the statues are very subtle to the untrained eye. There is also a gift shop with authentic communist era trinkets you can bring home such as mugs, pins and posters. It’s absolutely worth a visit if you’re ever in the city.

Fantastic place, so great that Hungary has saved a important part of their history. Be sure to buy the booklet at the register, it tells you a lot about each sculpture, without it you do not have much information. The museum is easy to get too by public transport. Highly recommended

Really interesting visit, and a nice excuse to get out of the city centre. The person selling tickets was lovely and informative, and the exhibition and cinema was super useful to learn some more context about the statues and hungarian history. Very easy to get to on the metro line 4, and then a regular bus.

A unique and interesting park, well worth a visit if you have the time/have exhausted the typical tourist attractions in Budapest. It is around 45-60 minutes from the city centre depending on where you are coming from, but certainly worth doing if into your modern history! Several statues to look at and informative guidebook or tour guides available. Also featured a small exhibition room that is also worth a look.

Very interesting place, I wasn’t expecting very much but I was very pleasantly surprised how good this park is! The man at the ticket office was the friendliest person we had encountered on our trip so far. I would recommend buying the excellent visitors guidebook which is entitled ’In The Shadow Of Stalin’s Boots’ and is very informative. The park really lets you see how the Soviets were trying to push their propaganda onto the Hungarian population through sculpture. We also liked the training videos for Hungarian spies and sitting in a real Trabant was loads of fun too. Certainly worth the trip out from the city.

This was truly one of the most interesting sites we visited in Budapest. This is a little out of the way, but that said very easy to get to and from; metro & bus ride away. We were given a guide book by the most friendly bus driver, but we would have purchased it and is well worth the money. The park has amazing Soviet history that comes alive with each step. It’s well maintained and a great place to remove yourself from the crowds. Highlight of our visit.

Memento Park is an open-air museum dedicated to monumental statues and sculpted plaques from Hungary's Communist period (1949–1989). There are statues of Lenin, Marx, and Engels, as well as several Hungarian Communist leaders. A quote by the architect on the project: "This park is about dictatorship. And at the same time, because it can be talked about, described, built, this park is about democracy. After all, only democracy is able to give us the opportunity to let us think freely about dictatorship. Memento Park is divided into two sections, Statue Park, officially named "A Sentence About Tyranny" Park after a poem of the same name by Gyula Illyés, and laid out as six oval sections; and Witness Square (also called Neverwas Square), which lies east of the main park entrance and is visible without payment. Statue Park houses 42 of the statues and monuments that were removed from Budapest after the fall of communism. Witness Square holds a replica of Stalin's Boots which became a symbol of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, after the statue of Stalin was pulled down from its pedestal, and is flanked by two single storey timber structures housing the internal exhibition space, their design being evocative of simple internment camp buildings, and also the Bunker, which is free of charge. Worth a visit if you have a day free, Budapest card got us here and back no problem.

It IS a fun experience If you like art and enjoy communist era statues. The staff is very helpful and nice. The park itself lacks some maintenance, but nothing too serious. I enjoyed it

According to our guide, the park is not funded by the government and relies on tickets sale to keep running, which is a pity considering the historical value of it. In the premises you can find statues from the soviet era and understand more about how society and the regime worked back in the day. Also, taking the tour is highly advisable since the meaning behind the statues are very subtle to the untrained eye. There is also a gift shop with authentic communist era trinkets you can bring home such as mugs, pins and posters. It’s absolutely worth a visit if you’re ever in the city.

Fantastic place, so great that Hungary has saved a important part of their history. Be sure to buy the booklet at the register, it tells you a lot about each sculpture, without it you do not have much information. The museum is easy to get too by public transport. Highly recommended

Really interesting visit, and a nice excuse to get out of the city centre. The person selling tickets was lovely and informative, and the exhibition and cinema was super useful to learn some more context about the statues and hungarian history. Very easy to get to on the metro line 4, and then a regular bus.

A unique and interesting park, well worth a visit if you have the time/have exhausted the typical tourist attractions in Budapest. It is around 45-60 minutes from the city centre depending on where you are coming from, but certainly worth doing if into your modern history! Several statues to look at and informative guidebook or tour guides available. Also featured a small exhibition room that is also worth a look.

Very interesting place, I wasn’t expecting very much but I was very pleasantly surprised how good this park is! The man at the ticket office was the friendliest person we had encountered on our trip so far. I would recommend buying the excellent visitors guidebook which is entitled ’In The Shadow Of Stalin’s Boots’ and is very informative. The park really lets you see how the Soviets were trying to push their propaganda onto the Hungarian population through sculpture. We also liked the training videos for Hungarian spies and sitting in a real Trabant was loads of fun too. Certainly worth the trip out from the city.

This was truly one of the most interesting sites we visited in Budapest. This is a little out of the way, but that said very easy to get to and from; metro & bus ride away. We were given a guide book by the most friendly bus driver, but we would have purchased it and is well worth the money. The park has amazing Soviet history that comes alive with each step. It’s well maintained and a great place to remove yourself from the crowds. Highlight of our visit.

Memento Park is an open-air museum dedicated to monumental statues and sculpted plaques from Hungary's Communist period (1949–1989). There are statues of Lenin, Marx, and Engels, as well as several Hungarian Communist leaders. A quote by the architect on the project: "This park is about dictatorship. And at the same time, because it can be talked about, described, built, this park is about democracy. After all, only democracy is able to give us the opportunity to let us think freely about dictatorship. Memento Park is divided into two sections, Statue Park, officially named "A Sentence About Tyranny" Park after a poem of the same name by Gyula Illyés, and laid out as six oval sections; and Witness Square (also called Neverwas Square), which lies east of the main park entrance and is visible without payment. Statue Park houses 42 of the statues and monuments that were removed from Budapest after the fall of communism. Witness Square holds a replica of Stalin's Boots which became a symbol of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, after the statue of Stalin was pulled down from its pedestal, and is flanked by two single storey timber structures housing the internal exhibition space, their design being evocative of simple internment camp buildings, and also the Bunker, which is free of charge. Worth a visit if you have a day free, Budapest card got us here and back no problem.

It IS a fun experience If you like art and enjoy communist era statues. The staff is very helpful and nice. The park itself lacks some maintenance, but nothing too serious. I enjoyed it