PHOTOS: PM Orbán opens newest attraction in Budapest City Park

Opening the new, permanent exhibition of the Museum of Ethnography, the prime minister said on Thursday that “in the current situation in Europe, we Hungarians can survive only if we live our culture and traditions.”

Viktor Orbán said that if a nation lost its folk culture, it would also lose its ability “to judge what is good and what is bad” and “get confused to know what hurts it and what benefits it.”

Photo: MTI/Koszticsák Szilárd

“Then come the ambiguous ideals, truths turned inside out, and absurd suggestions that the family is not a cohabitation of a man and a woman, but an endless variation of spontaneous configurations. Suggestions that diversity represents value, even if it fuels crime and terrorism, or the thinking that in order to live in peace, we must continue a hopeless war,” he said.

“Let’s thank to God that things here [in Hungary] are at their right place, common sense is prevalent and order stemming from folk culture also infiltrates our daily life,” the prime minister said.

Orbán: ‘City Park pilgrimage site of national culture’

Performance by the Hungarian State Folk Ensemble at the opening. Photo: MTI/Koszticsák Szilárd

The City Park is not only a public park, but also “a pilgrimage site of Hungarian national culture,” Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said opening the new, permanent exhibition of the Museum of Ethnography in Budapest on Thursday.

This event is an integral part of the government’s efforts to renew the entire City Park, he said.

Years ago, the City Park was in “scandalous condition”, and the Budapest City Council was not ready, or maybe not willing to improve its condition, so the government had to take action, Orbán said.

A performance by the Budafok Dohnányi Orchestra at the opening. Photo: MTI/Koszticsák Szilárd

The government therefore launched the Liget Budapest project, one of Europe’s largest and highest-quality cultural development projects, he said.

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