Trianon 100 – Government supports setting up ‘museum of freedom’ on Gellert Hill

The cabinet has decided to support plans for a “museum of Hungarian freedom” on Gellért Hill in Budapest connected to the 100th anniversary of the Trianon Peace Treaty, the head of the Prime Minister’s Office said on Thursday.

Gergely Gulyás told a regular press conference that Hungary was forced to sign the treaty a hundred years ago which resulted in losing two-thirds of its territory and every third Hungarian living beyond the borders.

June 4 was declared a Day of National Cohesion ten years ago when the government introduced the opportunity for acquiring Hungarian citizenship in a fast-track procedure and since then, nearly 1.1 million ethnic Hungarians have used this opportunity, he said.