Following a decision by the Minister of Social Relations and Culture, the term of Mária Schmidt, Director General of the House of Terror Museum, has been terminated, Zoltán Tarr announced on Tuesday on his social media page. Concurrent with this decision, the museum will be temporarily closed, and the facility will remain inaccessible until the review of the exhibition’s content is completed and the legal situation is clarified.
Zsolt Sári, State Secretary for Public Collections and Monument Preservation, said that the House of Terror Museum had evolved in recent years into an ideologized and overly politicized institution. Its work must now be embedded in a historically authentic and academically sound framework. He added that he was confident that, once the review is complete, the institution on Andrássy Avenue would reopen to visitors with a clean slate and on a strengthened academic foundation.
Mária Schmidt wrote that she had learned from a Facebook post by Zoltán Tarr that the minister had dismissed her. “I have received neither a reason nor an explanation. Nor has there been any contact or communication between me and the ministry. I have received no response to my letters. I can only hope that the closure has nothing to do with my nationwide political sympathies for the opposition, because
it does not fit with the European political culture so often cited by TISZA for the government to select the heads of public collections based on their political sympathies,”
she wrote. “The government’s ideological and political predecessor, the (left-liberal) SZDSZ, had at the time—at least publicly—taken offense at the ‘Wall of Perpetrators’ as well as at the equal condemnation of communist and Arrow Cross terror. I therefore assume that this is the reason for the museum’s closure, since the ideological base of the SZDSZ—which stands behind TISZA—sought to prevent the House of Terror Museum from opening by invoking these very points. At least they had the courage to openly stand by their opinion, something the TISZA government lacks,” explained Mária Schmidt. “So much so that my former colleagues were forced today to justify the museum’s closure on the museum’s website by citing ‘technical reasons,’” she added.
As FIDESZ wrote in its statement, TISZA intends to eliminate the most important memorial to ’56 in the year marking the 70th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution.
“Not even the left-wing prime ministers Péter Medgyessy, Ferenc Gyurcsány, and Gordon Bajnai dared to take this shameful step—between 2002 and 2010,” wrote the opposition party.
Péter Magyar, Zoltán Tarr, and TISZA, however, have no respect for anything—neither the heroes and victims nor their families, descendants, or Hungarian history,”
FIDESZ stated, noting that the museum has been visited by 8 million people since 2002.
Bence Rétvári, parliamentary group leader of the Christian Democrats (KDNP), wrote regarding the museum’s closure:
They now want to erase the past once and for all and rewrite it themselves.”
He recalled that the building had housed the headquarters of the Arrow Cross Party and the ÁVH (Hungarian secret police), and went on to explain: TISZA has now decided to “establish its own political police, its own ÁVH,” and is now closing the House of Terror, where the ÁVH’s methods were displayed. “Theoretically, this is temporary, but hopefully not in the same way that Soviet troops were ‘temporarily’ stationed in our country,” the KDNP politician remarked.
Via MTI, Featured image: Facebook/Terror Háza Múzeum / House of Terror Museum
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