Where is the Memento park located and who designed it?”
Memento Park is a unique museum in Budapest, including Statue Park with monumental statues from communist times. In the open air museum you can see statues of Lenin, Marx and Engels, as well as Hungarian Communist leaders such as Béla Kun, Endre Ságvári or Árpád Szakasits. The park was designed by Hungarian architect, Ákos Eleőd, who won the competition announced by the Budapest General Assembly (Fővárosi Közgyűlés) in 1991. After the fall of the Communist regime in Hungary in 1989, many of the Communist statues and monuments were immediately removed. These formed the basis for the current collection in statue park. On June 29, 1993, the second anniversary of the withdrawal of the Russian troops from Hungarian territory, the park celebrated a ribbon cutting and grand opening as a public an outdoor museum. In 2006 marks a new chapter in the history of Memento Park. A life-sized copy of the tribune of the Stalin Monument in Budapest was built in the Statue Park with the broken bronze sho
