Memento Park in Budapest collects 42 monumental communist-era statues removed from the city’s public spaces after 1989, preserved in an open-air museum opened in 1993 at the city’s southwestern edge. The park holds original-scale pieces including Lenin, Marx, and Red Army monuments that were designed for squares and major intersections. A direct bus runs from Deák Ferenc tér in about 20 minutes. Check mementopark.hu for current hours and entrance prices.
museum in Budapest
Memento Park
Memento Park is an open-air sculpture museum on the southwestern edge of Budapest that holds 42 monumental statues and reliefs removed from Budapest's public spaces after 1989.
- Type
- museum
- Destination
- Budapest
- Cost
- Paid entry
- Founded
- 1993
- Era
- Contemporary
- Address
- Balatoni út, corner of Szabadkai utca, 1223 Budapest
- Coordinates
- 47.4262, 18.9990
- Official website
- Visit website