Memento Park
Memento Park is an open-air museum in Budapest, Hungary, dedicated to monumental statues and sculpted plaques from Hungary's Communist… Read more…
Opening hours
| Monday | 10:00 AM–6:21 PM |
| Tuesday | 10:00 AM–6:22 PM |
| Wednesday | 10:00 AM–6:24 PM |
| Thursday | 10:00 AM–6:25 PM |
| Friday | 10:00 AM–6:27 PM |
| Saturday | 10:00 AM–6:28 PM |
| Sunday | 10:00 AM–6:30 PM |
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Memento Park is an open-air museum in Budapest, Hungary, dedicated to monumental statues and sculpted plaques from Hungary's Communist period. There are statues of Lenin, Marx, and Engels, as well as several Hungarian Communist leaders. The park was designed by Hungarian architect Ákos Eleőd, who won the competition announced by the Budapest General Assembly in 1991. On public transport diagrams and other documents the park is usually shown as Memorial Park.
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 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;…
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Tours & Activities
5.0 (32) Budapest: Memento Park and Icons of Communism Guided Tour
4.6 (33) Memento Park: Official Guided Tour with Entry Ticket
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