The Leitha Monitor Museum Ship at the Parliament building is opened for the public

August 15, 2014

The Leitha Monitor Museum Ship at the Parliament building is opened for the public

Minister of Defence Csaba Hende inaugurated the one-time Leitha warship in the harbor set up at the northern part of the Parliament building. The exhibition onboard the Leitha was compiled by the Association for Shipping History, Modeling and the Maintenance of Traditions (HMNE) of the Society for the Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge (TIT) in cooperation with the Zoltán Steamboat Public Benefit Purpose Foundation and the Association for the Maintenance of the Memory of the Imperial and Royal Danube Flotilla at the request of the Ministry of Defence.

The ribbon symbolizing the opening of the museum ship was cut by Csaba Hende and Deputy Speaker of Parliament János Latorcai (Christian Democratic People's Party). The ceremony was attended, among others, by Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Hungary Colonel General Tibor Benkő, President of the National Memorial and Piety Committee (NEKB) and former Prime Minister Péter Boross, Director-General of the House of Terror Museum Mária Schmidt as well as several generals and members of the First World War Centenary Memorial Committee. The warship of historical significance anchored at the Antall József Quay is part of the Parliament Visitor Center. The exhibition came into being with the financial support of the First World War Centenary Memorial Committee.