What do you do with all your iconic communist statues when they’re no longer welcome in the squares and parks of central Budapest? At Memento Park, aka Statue Park, they found a great solution – banish them to the outskirts of the city and make them into a prime tourist attraction, one of the most unique open-air exhibitions in the world. The4 park opened in 1993, four years after the fall of communism in Hungary.

Displayed in the park are some 40 pieces of art from the 45-year Communist era in Hungary which began after ... (more)