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Design

Design of Terror Háza

The Terror Háza museum was opened on February 24, 2002, after a year-long renovation process. The reconstruction aimed to make the building stand out imposingly on the street, adding granite sidewalks and a giant black awning stenciled with the word “TERROR” and the symbols of Nazi and Communist rule.

Inside, the museum’s exhibits describe and illustrate the building’s past uses, including the basement prison cells and films detailing employed torture methods, as well as memorial walls to the building’s victims and tableaux featuring names and photos of those believed to have been involved in the Communist intelligence services (including some who are still active Socialist party officials). Hungarian architects János Sándor and Kámán Újszászy planned the building’s renovation; architect Attila F. Kovács designed the museum’s façade and interior exhibitions.

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