Budapest’s House of Terror Museum Temporarily Shuttered, Pending Review of Controversial Political Exhibitions
The museum will reopen later this year after officials review exhibition content and clarify display rights, while the foundation’s duties move to state control.
- On Tuesday, Minister Zoltán Tarr announced the removal of Mária Schmidt as director general of the Budapest Terror Museum, ending her tenure since the institution opened in 2002.
- The government initiated the dissolution of KEKVA public foundations, which had managed cultural institutions including the Public Foundation for Research on Central and Eastern European History and Society operating the Terror Museum.
- Cultural Asset Management Ltd succeeds the foundation under the Ministry for Social Relations and Culture. Schmidt claimed the institutions operated transparently and lawfully throughout their existence.
- The Terror Museum is temporarily closed for a review of exhibition content and rights relating to displays. Prime Minister Péter Magyar stated dissolution responsibilities would be carried out as state functions.
- Tarr said the Terror Museum will reopen later this year once permanent professional, financial, and operational frameworks are established. The reopening timeline depends on completing this institutional restructuring.
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The Hungarian Minister of Culture is temporarily closing the tourist House of Terror museum in Budapest. The director has also been fired. The museum focuses on the crimes of communist and fascist regimes in Hungary. According to critics, it was an ideological weapon for the government of former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
Fidesz-Ideologist Mária Schmidt had run the house since its foundation, she was now dismissed as director. The museum will only open again after a comprehensive substantive and legal review.
House of Terror's director fired, museum closed as new government rewrites the past
The mandate of Mária Schmidt, director general of the House of Terror Museum, has been terminated by decision of the minister responsible for social relations and culture — Zoltán Tarr announced this on his social media page on Tuesday. Simultaneously with the decision, the House of Terror Museum is temporarily closing and will not be accessible to visitors until the review of the exhibition's content has been completed and the rights have been …
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