Statue Park

Szoborpark or Statue Park is a park in Budapest's XXII district, with a gathering of monumental Soviet-era statues. These include statues of Lenin, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, as well as local Hungarian Communist leaders such as Béla Kun. The park was designed by Hungarian architect, Ákos Eleőd, who won the competition announced by the Budapest General Assembly (Fővárosi Közgyűlés) in 1991.

After the fall of the Communist regime in Hungary in 1989, many of the Communist statues and monuments were immediately removed. These formed the basis for the current collection in Statue Park. On June 29, 1993, the second anniversary of the withdrawal of Russian troops from Hungarian territory, the park celebrated a ribbon cutting and grand opening as a public outdoor museum.

A life-sized copy of the tribune of the Stalin Monument in Budapest was built in the Statue Park with the broken bronze shoes on top of the pedestal in 2006. This is not an accurate copy of the original but only an artistic recreation by sculptor Ákos Eleőd.

Memento park also includes an exhibition and film theatre. The photography exhibition, called “Stalin’s Boots”, covers the 1956 revolution, the 1989-1990 political changes and Memento Park itself, with both English and Hungarian captions. In the barrack-theatre a documentary on the methods used by the secret police, titled The Life of an Agent and directed by Gábor Zsigmond Papp, is shown with English subtitles. The park also functions as a cultural and educational sight housing art projects, festivals, professional and public events. There are Retro Festivals, Film Festivals and several cultural programs.[].

The park opens every day from 10 o’clock in the morning until sunset. It is accessible by public transport as well as a special tourist bus.

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We Love Budapest
31 August 2015
powerful reminders dictatorship, stunning historical collection, removed statues&monuments from the streets of Budapest are displayed. “Stalin’s Tribune” recalls the mythical longing for freedom
Chris R (thechristophe)
8 October 2016
Nice place to spend some time revisiting still recent history. Many statues of the old communist regime can be seen. Getting here by public transport is easy with Metro 4 and frequent buses.
Maxwell House
5 March 2018
This park is worth the short trip out o the city. The fact that its out of the city and a little quieter adds to the slight eeriness of the statues. There’s also a Trabant to inspect.
Carl Griffin
31 December 2015
Amazing collection of communist period statues with Lenin, Marx and Bela Kun. Worth the effort of travelling by bus away from the city centre.
Elsa Pollard
26 December 2019
Easily accessible by metro & bus or bolt/taxi, impressive and thoughtfully put together. Worth watching the documentary also.
Hans Kleinsman
8 May 2018
So this is on one mother of a hill (find out the hard way when you’re by bike). DO get the booklet or figure from the internet what you’re looking at and DO see the secret agent movie in the barracks
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0.2km from Budapest, Balatoni út, 1223 Hungary Get directions
Thu 10:00 AM–3:00 PM
Fri 10:00 AM–6:00 PM
Sat 10:00 AM–7:00 PM
Sun 10:00 AM–6:00 PM
Mon 10:00 AM–6:00 PM
Tue 10:00 AM–7:00 PM

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