In late 2016, while in Budapest I visited a place called Momento Park. This open-air museum serves as the final resting place for many of the Soviet era statues which existed throughout Hungary during Soviet rule. It is a park about dictatorship designed as a place of reflection and to provide a history lesson to never repeat the horrors of dictatorship and oppression. Could a U.S. version of Momento Park serve as a final resting place for the Confederate statues and as a warning to never repeat the horrors of slavery and oppression?
Here are a few images I snapped while visiting Momento Park in December 2016.
UPDATE: Minor edit to clarify that Memento Park operates as an open-air museum rather than a public park.
An interesting idea with a park like that! I do agree with @sireastbound that there is a risk of such park becoming a shrine and that the risk of violent confrontation is high. Maybe still not a bad idea. Would it be that much different to put statues in a museum? I guess that depends on how access to the park is controlled.
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@sireastbound does make a good point. There is always a risk for such a site becoming a holy site - just look at Hilter's birthplace - however I believe this could be mitigated. Momento Park is actually an open-air museum with controlled access not a true public park. Admission supports the museum's educational and culture events and the general mission of educating the public about the horrors of dictatorship.
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Thanks for filling in about the access to Momento Park and clarifying that it is an open-air museum. If it is handled like that I think it could be a viable solution also for the US. There would still be all the same trouble in moving monuments from their original location to a Momento type park.
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I've updated the original post to specific it is, indeed, an open air museum. Thanks for prompting me.
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I think such a park would become a shrine too some people and become part of many riots in a country like the usa. I think they are best of in a museum, but I bet the extreme left would even tear down those museums if they had the chance.
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