{"id":4910,"date":"2024-06-03T23:34:09","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T21:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/isic.hu\/?p=4910"},"modified":"2025-09-11T17:32:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T15:32:53","slug":"memento-park-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/isic.hu\/en\/memento-park-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Memento Park – Statues from the Communist Dictatorship"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Memento Park is a special, unique attraction in Budapest. The Sculpture Park Museum, the Barakk Cinema, the Photo Exhibition, the Stalin Tribune and the Warehouse Exhibition offer a complex experience for all ages.<\/p>\n

The place is the first thematic facility in Central Europe that reminds of a dictatorship and its fall.<\/p>\n

Memento Park, combined with the attractions of the area, is a pleasant leisure destination and excursion destination at the same time.<\/p>\n

At Memento Park are displayed 42 pieces of art from the Communist era between 1945 and 1989, including allegorical monuments of \u201cHungarian-Soviet Friendship\u201d and \u201cLiberation\u201d, as well as statues of famous personalities from the labour movement, soldiers of the Red Army and other gigantic pieces: Lenin, Marx, Engels, Dimitrov, Captain Ostapenko, B\u00e9la Kun and other \u201cheroes\u201d of the communist world. A favourite with visitors is the Liberation Army Soldier. A hammer-and-sickle flag in its hand and a cartridge-disc machine pistol hanging in its neck make the statue complete. This 6-meter tall statue of the evil-eyed Soviet soldier once stood on the top of Gell\u00e9rt Hill in central Budapest, well-seen from every direction.When facing it, the main entrance bears the image of a monumental classicist building. Looking behind it, though, it resembles a 12-meter high, under-propped communistic scenery ? a perfect introduction into the nature of dictatorship.
\nThe words of architect \u00c1kos Ele\u0151d, the conceptual designer of Memento Park serve as its motto: \u201cThis Park is about dictatorship. And at the same time, because it can be talked about, described and built up, this Park is about democracy. After all, only democracy can provide an opportunity to think freely about dictatorship. Or about democracy, come to that! Or about anything!\u201d<\/p>\n

Discount:<\/strong>40% discount on the price of a full price ticket\n

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