House of Terror Museum, Memorial museum in Budapest District VI, Hungary
The House of Terror occupies a three-storey neo-Renaissance building at Andrássy út 60, designed by Adolf Feszty in 1880 as a residential house. A black band wraps the roofline and a dark blade wall frames the facade, contrasting with the neighbouring buildings. Inside, the permanent exhibition runs chronologically through several floors and ends in the basement cells.
The building was used by the fascist Arrow Cross Party from 1944 and later taken over by the communist secret police after 1945. In 2002 it opened as a museum to document both dictatorial periods.
The building was known as the House of Loyalty (Hűség Háza) after Ferenc Szálasi's Arrow Cross movement took it over in 1940. Today the museum's shop displays a T-54 tank on the ground floor, and the exhibition's background music was composed by Ákos Kovács, former frontman of Bonanza Banzai.
The museum is open Tuesday through Sunday and offers audio guides in several languages. Visitors should allow enough time to walk through all floors and the basement level.
The black band along the roofline, with its cross, arrowheads and star, is part of the museum's 2002 exterior design by Attila Ferenczfy-Kovács, which frames the building in contrast to the rest of Andrássy Avenue. The permanent exhibition's background music was written by Ákos Kovács, former frontman of Bonanza Banzai.
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