In late 2016, while in Budapest I visited a place called Momento Park. This open-air museum serves as the final resting place for many of the Soviet era statues which existed throughout Hungary during Soviet rule. It is a park about dictatorship designed as a place of reflection and to provide a history lesson to never repeat the horrors of dictatorship and oppression. Could a U.S. version of Momento Park serve as a final resting place for the Confederate statues and as a warning to never repeat the horrors of slavery and oppression?
Here are a few images I snapped while visiting Momento Park in December 2016.
UPDATE: Minor edit to clarify that Memento Park operates as an open-air museum rather than a public park.
An interesting idea with a park like that! I do agree with @sireastbound that there is a risk of such park becoming a shrine and that the risk of violent confrontation is high. Maybe still not a bad idea. Would it be that much different to put statues in a museum? I guess that depends on how access to the park is controlled.
@sireastbound does make a good point. There is always a risk for such a site becoming a holy site - just look at Hilter's birthplace - however I believe this could be mitigated. Momento Park is actually an open-air museum with controlled access not a true public park. Admission supports the museum's educational and culture events and the general mission of educating the public about the horrors of dictatorship.
Thanks for filling in about the access to Momento Park and clarifying that it is an open-air museum. If it is handled like that I think it could be a viable solution also for the US. There would still be all the same trouble in moving monuments from their original location to a Momento type park.
I've updated the original post to specific it is, indeed, an open air museum. Thanks for prompting me.
I think such a park would become a shrine too some people and become part of many riots in a country like the usa. I think they are best of in a museum, but I bet the extreme left would even tear down those museums if they had the chance.
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