HOUSE OF TERROR (TERROR HÁZA)

At the origin of the museum, a house, that of n ° 60 of Andrássy Avenue, which was from 1944 to 1945 the headquarters of the Arrow (the Hungarian Nazi body) then, from 1945 to 1956, the premises of the secret police of the communist regime. The museum today wishes to pay tribute to the victims of Nazi and Soviet regimes, through several temporary exhibitions in addition to the permanent collection. The Maison de la Terror shows remarkably the tragedies of Hungarian and Jewish history, using strong images. The visit begins in the second by three rooms reserved for half the Arrow. Very quickly, the exhibition deals with the abuses of the Soviet regime, which ultimately constitute almost 90% of the museum. Many video testimonies, photos, reproductions of offices, gulls and other Stalinist "rejoicing". The visit ended with a descent into the underage, by lift, in the cellars where the victims of these regimes were imprisoned and tortured. The House of Terror was the subject of great controversy in Hungary, which opposed the supporters of an effective comparison between the Nazi and Communist regimes to those who, on the contrary, considered the rapprochement moved. She was also accused of political manipulation (left-wing parties saw in this terror house a political recovery from Viktor Orbán, former and current Hungarian Prime Minister, the museum's initiator).