THE SKANSEN MUSEUM OF COMMUNIST MONUMENT SCULPTURE IN BUDAPEST
Journal Title: Muzealnictwo - Year 2013, Vol 54, Issue
Abstract
Memento Park, an extraordinary museum of the past epoch, is situated on the peripheries of Budapest. The Museum, created soon after the fall of communism in Hungary, features monumental sculptures executed in different periods of communist rule. For years, they were displayed in the Hungarian capital. The Park is not large, and wide gravel avenues lead the visitor to successive exhibits. Statues inside the Museum are arranged on the outer sides of circular avenues. Four sites feature specially built clinker brick walls displayingz commemorative tablets. The majority of the sculptures collected in the Park have been placed on pedestals specially adapted for the needs of the exposition. The largest exhibits include a fragment of a monument executed in 1969 to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of the Hungarian Soviet Republic. Exhibits on show at Memento Park also portray Hungarian communists. Inside the complex we come across monuments commemorating Georgi Dymitrov, Hungarian-Soviet friendship and Soviet war heroes. The Budapest Park is a Skansen museum since the exhibits are presented in open-air conditions. The second argument is the fact that the gathered monuments date back to a period that ended at the turn of 1989, while the task of a typical Skansen museum involves depicting a world that is becoming part of the past. Despite the fact that the Museum is not a reconstruction of a town planning configuration or architecture, by amassing communist monuments it salvaged them from destruction. In this manner exhibits in Memento Park constitute a local legacy depicting public art and themes accepted by the Hungarian authorities of the period.
Authors and Affiliations
Marcin Markowski
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP62613
- DOI -
- Views 101
- Downloads 0
“Wonderful years. Music. Poetry. Painting. The 70’s, the 80’s” The Adam Mickiewicz Museum of Literature in Warsaw April-September 2009
W POSZUKIWANIU INNEJ DROGI z Rossellą Ragazzi rozmawia Karolina Dudek
Muzeum Etnograficzne im. Seweryna Udzieli w Krakowie prowadzi od 2009 r. projekt badawczy pod nazwą „Wesela 21”. Celem badań jest dokumentacja fascynującej różnorodności współczesnych ślubów i wesel. Przedsięwzięcie zako...
NOWE MUZEUM MOTORYZACJI W WARSZAWIE
Warszawa wzbogaciła się o nowe muzeum – tym razem Muzeum Motoryzacji (MM) – oddział Muzeum Techniki, które zlokalizowano w dawnych garażach podziemnych, w podwórzu przy ul. Filtrowej 62. Uroczyste otwarcie tej z dawna o...
ANYTHING GOES MUSEUM, OR THE FIVE SENSES OF PARTICIPATION
Usually an exhibition takes several years to be created. The curator responsible for it carries out queries and research, thanks to which the topic presented to the guests is presented in a broad historical and cultural...
BADANIA PROWENIENCYJNE W POLSCE (CZĘŚĆ 1.)
Artykuł stanowi dopełnienie tekstu Badania proweniencyjne w Europie i Stanach Zjednoczonych, który został opublikowany w 56. numerze „Muzealnictwa” w 2015 roku. Zwrócono w nim uwagę na historyczne uwarunkowania polskich...