The pleasant, picturesque park with its green grass, flowering trees and blue skies seems like an unlikely place to have a display of communist sculptures, but this is precisely what the park presents in an effectively neutral and retrospective way.

During the 1956 Uprising, angry hordes tore down the towering statue of Stalin, leaving nothing behind except the boots on which it stood. Today, a replica of these boots is a reminder of that momentous occasion, elevated on a pedestal in Witness Square. Meet the pioneers of communism – Lenin, Marx, Béla Kun - in the form of busts and plaques that were saved by the government when communism met its demise in Hungary in 1989. These forty plus works were widely celebrated during the reign of communism, but since then, they serve to preserve the memories of this turbulent period in history. An exhibition centre documents the significant events in communist history from 1956 to the present, and shows a documentary film exposing rare footage of secret agents collecting information on 'subversives'.