The museum is open every day (excluding Mondays) from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The easiest way to reach the property is via the M1 metro line; two of its stations – Oktogon and Kodály körönd – are ...

Budapest Letter: Capitals across ... When the Soviet Union regime fell in Hungary in 1989, ... It was decided to retain but relocate the Soviet-era statues to what became an open-air museum, ...

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.

A controversy has erupted in Hungary over the future of a Budapest museum devoted to the torture and repression practiced by the postwar Communist dictatorship. The Socialist-led government has ...

The museum has enough to intrigue and entertain everyone, whether they were born post-Communism or grew up beyond the yoke of the Soviet Union. That is one of the philosophical themes permeating ...

Hungary this year is commemorating the estimated 700,000 of its civilians and soldiers taken away 70 years ago to the Gulag, the forced-labor camps of the Soviet Union.

A line of Russian tanks in Budapest during the army's suppression of ... The Soviet Union invaded Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968 ... the director of the Petofi Literary Museum, ...