OWTF 2012-2014

1. Memento park

2. History
• Memento park is an open-air museum in
Budapest
• It contains monumental statues from the
Communist period of time in Hungary
• The park was designed by a Hungarian architect

3. • People can find 42 statues here
• After the fall of the Communist regime in Hungary
in 1989, many of the Communist statues and
monuments were removed.
These formed the basis of the current collection in
the statue park.
• On 29th June 1993 the open-air museum was
opened

4. • In 2006 a life-sized copy of the tribune of the
Stalin Monument was built in the Statue Park
• In 2007 a new exhibition hall and a small
movie theatre was opened in the park

5. The statues
• The Main entrance
– It's a 12- meter- high ‘communist scenery’
designed by the Hungarian Ákos Előd
– Statues: Lenin, Marx
and Engels

6. • Red army soldier statue
– The statue was designed
by Zsigmond Kisfaludi
Strobl in 1947
– Its material: bronze
– Its original location was at
the top of the Gellért Hill

7. • The Hungarian-Soviet Friendship Memorial
– Designed by Zsigmond Kisfaludi Strobl in 1956
– Its material: bronze
– Its original location: Szent László Square in
Budapest

8. • The Liberation Memorial
Stone
– Its designer is unknown
– Designed in 1960
– Its material: stone
– Its original location:
Dísz Square In Budapest
• The Soviet Heroic
Memorial
– Designed by László
Péter in 1951
– Its material: limestone
– Its original location:
Rage park

9. • The Lenin Relife
– Designed by Iván Szabó
in 1970
– Its material: bronze
• The Republic of Councils
Monument was based
on a revolutionary
poster in 1919

10. • The Statue of Dimitrov
– Designed by Valentin
Sztarcsev in 1983
– Its material: bronze
– Its original location:
Fővám Square in
Budapest

11. • Münnich Ferenc
– Designed by István Kiss in
1986
– Its material: bronze
– Its original location: Honvéd
Square in Budapest

12. • Georgi Dimitrov
– Designed by Jordan
Kracsmarov in 1954
– Its material: bronze
– Its original location:
Fővám Square In
Budapest