Monday, December 7, 2009

Unusual Monuments: Memento Park, Budapest

Communist statues, Memento Park, Budapest, Hungary (© www.mementopark.hu)

Unusual Monuments: Memento Park, Budapest

The open-air museum called Memento Park, in Budapest, is a peculiar collection of statues and monuments. After communism ended in Hungary in 1989, the country removed statues of Communist leaders such as Vladimir Lenin and Karl Marx that had been placed around the country. Four years later, in 1993, this park opened to the public to display the symbols of a once-celebrated era.

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