Memento Park Budapest

Statues of Communist Budapest

Kálmán from Budapest

""Memento Park" is a depository for communist-era public statues in Budapest. I also like it as a space to get away from the city's concrete for a bit."

Memento Park - or Szoborpark ("Statue Park"), is a depository for communist-era public statues.

Located on the very fringes of Budapest, you should allocate quite a bit of travelling time to getting there and back, or catch the once-a-day direct bus that leaves at 11:00 from Deák Ferenc Metro station and goes back to the city at 13:00 (or just drive).

Lots of people get a kick out of seeing these monumental statues in their new, "harmless" environment, but given nice enough weather, the park is also a good spot to get away from the city's concrete for a bit.

Just outside the main entrance, there's a barracks where they sometimes have temporary exhibits as well as some permanent information on the 1956 revolution and the 1989-90 change into democracy.

Definitely check it out, as there's also a movie theater inside, showing a subtitled documentary called "Life of the Agent." It's a compilation of actual black-and-white training videos filmed by and for the communist secret police, teaching you how to conduct proper house searches, how to follow someone unnoticed, how to enlist someone as an informant, and other similar skills. You can also buy the movie on DVD at the ticket office, and it's awesome.

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Budapest Spotter Kálmán

About me I've done a variety of things in the past, a good part of them centred on words: poetry, translation, journalism. I have a history of English studies at college, and of a mighty array of knicks and knacks that are not proper jobs. I like hearing stories and telling stories: they're edifices built of facts (or falsehoods, or falsehoods that are truer than facts, as the case might be), but they tell us everything that facts alone never could. About Budapest Because it's old and full of memories, and because it's young and alive and constantly growing and changin...

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Balatoni út / Szabadkai utca

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Oct 2, 2025

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