Memento Park

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Memento Park is an open-air museum in Budapest that displays statues and monuments from Hungary’s communist era.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf museum
open-air museum
tourist attraction
alternativeName Statue Park
Szoborpark
architect Ákos Eleőd
category Cold War museums
Communism memorials
Museums in Budapest
Open-air museums in Hungary
collectionType monuments
public sculptures
statues
country Hungary
designer Ákos Eleőd
exhibitionFocus post-communist memory politics
propaganda art
hasGuidedTours yes
hasPart Hungarian communist leaders’ statues
Lenin statues
Marx and Engels statue
Red Army memorial statues
Stalin’s Boots monument
The Barrack Theater
The Witnesses’ Square
Trabant car exhibit
photo exhibition on 1956 revolution
hasWebsite https://mementopark.hu/
inception 1993
languageOfName Hungarian
locatedIn Budapest
Budapest District XXII
Europe
locatedNear Budapest city center
materialOfStatues bronze
stone
officialName Memento Park
operator Memento Park Kft.
purpose historical education
preservation of communist-era public art
tourism
subject Hungarian People’s Republic
cult of personality monuments
socialist realism in art
subjectOf film “Memento Park” (documentaries and reports)
theme Cold War history
communist-era monuments
political statues
touristType cultural tourism
dark tourism

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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Budapest
contains
Memento Park
officialName
Memento Park ("Memento Park Kft.")
operator

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