House of Terror (Budapest)

Situated at 60 Andrassy Boulevard, the main thoroughfare of Budapest in a beautiful, elegant building Terror House is impossible to miss. The building hs a large grey metal strip attatched to the top and letters reading TERROR HOUSE stamped out of it in imposing block script. If the aim is to make the house which served as the headquarters of the Red Arrow Party (Hungarian Fascists) and then the Hungarian Communist Party stand out then it is certainly successful. However, I couldn't help but feel that it was also a little tasteless and a sign that the museum concentrates more on the shocking and the macabre than on the broader story of this indeed brutal period of the ...  Read the complete review

HOUSE OF TERROR Andrassy Ut 60 Budapest Hungary Tel: (36 1) 374 2600 www.terrorhaza.hu Andrassy Ut is a wide, tree lined Boulevard with some of the most prestigious addresses in Budapest. It also has one of the more horrific ones. No. 60 was the war time home of the Arrow Cross Party (Hungarian Nazis) and was later replaced by the AVO and AVH Communist terror organizations. Nowadays, as well as being a museum it is also a memorial to those that died under these regimes. There is a bookshop (free to get into), café and cloakrooms on the ground floor, you then go up to the second floor to start your visit, passing a Soviet ...  Read the complete review