Vladimir Lenin stands with Karl Marx and notable Hungarian communist leaders behind the austere brick walls of a unique, if not surreal, statue park museum up in the hilly southern ...

In Budapest there were alternative ideas for what the statue park might look like. One suggested concept involved building a huge gallows structure where the statues would hang, as a sort of ...

Since 1993, Memento Park has been home to Hungary's fallen and toppled communist-era statues, a graveyard to dictators that provides a place to teach and remember, but not to idealise.

They didn't chuck communist-era statues in the river in most former Soviet countries after the Iron Curtain fell. Instead, they put them in museums like Memento Park, writes Malcolm Tattersall.

The park takes visitors to the heart of the Soviet era, with soaring statues that functioned as three-dimensional propaganda. Among the 42 pieces is a rare cubist sculpture of Karl Marx and ...

BUDAPEST — On the periphery of Budapest is an open-air museum that houses the Communist-era statues that were toppled, along with the Soviet-installed regime, in 1989.

The bulk of Soviet-era statues in Budapest and in countries formerly behind the Iron Curtain have been removed, relocated, and reinterpreted. The idea is not to erase history, but to contextualize it.

Shortly after the fall of communism in 1991, Memento Park became the place where these communist statues went to die. (Memento Park, Budapest, Balatoni út - Szabadkai utca sarok, 1223 Hungary ...

Since 1993, Memento Park has been home to Hungary's fallen and toppled communist-era statues, a graveyard to dictators that provides a place to teach and remember, but not to idealise.

Vladimir Lenin stands with Karl Marx and notable Hungarian communist leaders behind the austere brick walls of a unique, if not surreal, statue park museum up in the hilly southern ...