Szoborpark 2001

After the Soviets left Hungary to pursue its future, the city planners in Budapest tore down all the Communist-era monuments. Rather than destroy the relics of the past half-century of their history, they moved all the statuary to an open-air museum outside the city limits. The locals call this place "Szoborpark," or simply, "the statue park." The day the three of us arrived- A Hungarian, a Dane, and an American—there were only three or four other people in the museum's expanse. Under a fittingly bleak Jaunuary sky, these legacies of a faded greatness seemed to stare out into their darkening future. A shot of the front gates from inside the statue park. Mud and ice cake the park's walkways under a freezing sky. One of several Lenins.             Cecilie in Szoborpark.       A winter night falls on some of the last remains of the Soviet empire. Go back to the Budapest 2000 pictures Back to the index page