Memento Park Budapest

Memento Park Budapest The Biggest Statues and the Darkest Ghosts of the Communist Dictatorship. Gigantism, waving comrades, Stalin’s boots, and the Red Army soldiers. Insert a bug?
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Concept and architectural design by Akos Eleod, Ybl- and Podmaniczky-prize winning architect. “This Park is about dictatorship, but as soon as this can be talked about, described and built, the park is already about democracy. After all, only democracy can provide the opportunity for us to think freely about dictatorship, or about democracy, come to that, or about anything.” (Ákos Eleőd, architect

of Memento Park)

Gigantic Ghost and Statues from the Communist Dictatorship
Memento Park offers an exciting travelling back in time, forgotten statues of the communist dictatorship from behind the Iron Curtain. Exhibition of the 1956 revolution and 1989-90 political changes. The barrack-documentary explains the political secret service. How to recruit an agent? What are the secret surveillance methods? In the vintage gift shop contemporary items, posters and other interesting gifts can be found. In the shadow of public statues from the communist dictatorship you can experience what it was like to sit in a Trabant car, you can also „phone” Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Che Guevara and many more former party leaders. At memento park by taking the informative guided tour you will have the opportunity to get all the answers to your questions related to the subject: How could Stalin leave his boots behind in Budapest, although he had never even been to the city? Is Lenin holding a hat in his hand and has one on his head as well? What did Nikita Khrushchev say when he once visited the Csepel Factory? Why Hungary was named the „happiest barrack”? How many people could actually fit in the Trabant car? On Stalins’ pedastal you can try out the „waving balcony” and feel what it was like to be a communist party leader in those old days on big communist holidays and festivals. Within Memento Park, Statue Park itself is one of the most unique tourist destinations in Budapest, and also it has great photo opportunities for the visitors. It is an exciting and special place to visit when you are in Budapest.

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“The Memento Park is a museum of an historical era, simultaneously presenting the themes of dictatorship and democracy. The Memento Park was built according to the conceptual design of the architect Akos Eleod. An "atmosphere of dictatorship" is created by these threatening monumental reminders of authority. However, in their new location, the positioning of the statues and accompanying buildings demonstrate to us that they are now simply the historical witnesses of the fact that there was once an era which expressed itself through these threatening symbols.”
(Geza Boros, Art Historian)

07/06/2026

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03/06/2026

Ambassadors of Memento Park

Who are they? Ordinary people with extraordinary skills and a will to create and share, so the world will be a better place, thanks to them. They are scholars, artists, professors, tourism professionals, travelers, thinkers, and doers engaged with or inspired by Memento Park's conceptual design. We show our gratitude in a series of social media content about them. Thank you all for what you do!

In this social media series, we will post about our ambassadors' current achievements, past publications, and create a think tank for our followers.

Anita Zátori

Anita Zátori is an Associate Professor at the Recreation, Parks and Tourism Department at Radford University, USA, and a former Assistant Professor at the Department of Tourism, Corvinus Business School, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary. Previously, she was a Visiting Professor at the Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Pamplin College of Business, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA, and also served as a research fellow at Budapest Metropolitan University of Applied Sciences in Hungary. Her research paper was awarded by TTRA Europe Chapter Conference ‘best paper award’ in 2015. Anita earned her PhD in Business Administration with a focus on Marketing and Tourism at Corvinus University of Budapest in 2014. Her research interests include tourist experience management and design, consumer behavior trends, cultural tourism, and quality of life.

Find out more about her work here:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/anitazatoriphd/

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30/05/2026

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Ambassadors of Memento ParkWho are they? Ordinary people with extraordinary skills and a will to create and share, so th...
27/05/2026

Ambassadors of Memento Park

Who are they? Ordinary people with extraordinary skills and a will to create and share, so the world will be a better place, thanks to them. They are scholars, artists, professors, tourism professionals, travelers, thinkers, and doers engaged with or inspired by Memento Park's conceptual design. We show our gratitude in a series of social media content about them. Thank you all for what you do!

In this social media series, we will post about our ambassadors' current achievements, past publications, and create a think tank for our followers.

Dr. Anna Váradi and Dr. Lucy Jeffery

Anna Váradi is a multilingual education and strategy expert with 10 years’ experience in student-facing work, project and event management, research design and dissemination, strategic planning, intercultural stakeholder relations, EDI, and database management (including automation). Anna has published in peer-reviewed journals as author and translator (working in German and Hungarian) and has presented at international conferences on television cultures, nostalgia, and feminist media in the UK, USA, and Denmark.

Lucy Jeffery’s research focuses on twentieth-century literature and culture. After an initial trip to Budapest in April 2019, Lucy’s interest in twentieth-century Hungarian literature and culture led to publications on one of Hungary’s best-loved writers, Magda Szabó. Lucy is currently writing an article on the poet Miklós Radnóti entitled ‘A Forced March from Serbia to Hungary: Reading Miklós Radnóti’s Bori notesz as the Diary of a Refugee’. Since receiving the Visegrad Scholarship in 2024, which saw her work at the Blinken Open Society Archives, Budapest, she has written an article about the parallels between censorship under communism and today in Hungary.

They published a volume, "Replaying Communism: Trauma and Nostalgia in European Cultural Production" (AUP, 2026).

Read more about their research, project, and the publication here:

https://sites.google.com/view/replayingcommunism/home?authuser=0

27/05/2026

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