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;…
Mon - Sun: 10 a.m. till dusk
Adult: HUF 1500
Student (with ISIC card): HUF 1000
Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_Park
Official Website http://www.mementopark.hu/
Link https://twitter.com/mementopark.budapest
Phone +36 1 424 7500
Address Balatoni út, 1223 Budapest, Hungary
Coordinates 47°25'34.876" N 18°59'56.139" E