Budapest is the European capital home to the House of Terror museum at 60 Andrássy Avenue.
The House of Terror opened in 2002 in a building associated with both Hungary’s Arrow Cross regime and the postwar communist state security service. The museum presents the history of the dictatorships that controlled Hungary in the 20th century and commemorates victims of those regimes.
The building became particularly associated with political imprisonment and interrogation. Museum exhibits address the fascist Arrow Cross period of 1944–45 and the communist era that followed, including the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and its suppression.
Budapest was created in 1873 through the administrative unification of Buda, Óbuda, and Pest. Andrássy Avenue, where the museum stands, is also part of the UNESCO World Heritage site that includes the Banks of the Danube, the Buda Castle Quarter, and the avenue itself.