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Admission will be free for everyone during the first week after reopening.
Tarr said the temporary closure had been intended to allow the legal framework necessary for the institution’s operation to be established. A professional review began at the same time but will take considerably longer to complete.
“We do not want to keep visitors away from the museum for that long, so we decided to open it during this period as well,” he wrote.
An information board at the beginning of the exhibition will notify visitors that the review is underway.
Tarr said the first week of free admission would give anyone interested an opportunity to see the exhibition, which he described as having generated intense debate among professionals.
“We are working to ensure that the House faithfully presents both the complexity of the past and different perspectives, and provides a genuine space for confronting the past,” he said.
As previously reported by the BBJ, Tarr announced the temporary closure last week and dismissed Mária Schmidt, who had led the museum since its opening in 2002. The institution commemorates victims of the fascist Arrow Cross and communist-era secret police regimes. Schmidt said she learned of her dismissal through Facebook and had received no explanation, while opposition Fidesz demanded her reinstatement and the museum’s immediate reopening.
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