Terror Háza

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  • Address
    Andrássy út 60, Pest
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  • Phone
    374 2600
  • Website
  • Transport
    underground rail: M1 Vörösmarty utca
  • Tue-Fri 10:00 - 18:00 , Sat-Sun 10:00 - 19:30

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Lonely Planet review

This museum, housed in the same building that served as headquarters of the dreaded ÁVH secret police, purports to focus on the crimes and atrocities committed by both Hungary's fascist and Stalinist regimes, but the latter, particularly the years after WWII leading up to the 1956 Uprising, gets the lion's share of the exhibition space.

The tank in the central courtyard is a jarring introduction, and the wall displaying many of the victims' photos speaks volumes. But even more harrowing are the reconstructed prison cells and the final Perpetrators' Gallery, featuring photographs of the turncoats, spies, torturers and 'cogs-in-the-wheel', many of them still alive, who allowed or caused these atrocities to take place.