Wende Museum
| Established | 2002 |
|---|---|
| Location | 5741 Buckingham Parkway, Suite E, Culver City, California 90230 |
| Type | Cultural Museum |
| Director | Justinian Jampol |
| Public transit access | Culver City Bus 3 and Metro Local bus 108 and 358 at Slauson Avenue/Buckingham Parkway |
| Website | www |
The Wende Museum of the Cold War is an art museum, historical archive, and educational institution in Culver City, California. It was founded in 2002 by Justinian Jampol and has a collection of more than 100,000 unique objects of visual and material culture from the Soviet Union and the former Eastern Bloc. In November 2012, the City Council of Culver City voted unanimously to approve a 75-year lease of the former United States National Guard Armory building in Culver City as the permanent location of the Wende Museum. The Armory building was constructed by the National Guard in 1949, when the Cold War began to escalate, and was decommissioned in March 2011. The museum is expected to open at the Armory site in late 2016 following renovations.
“Wende” is a German word meaning “transformation," a period of transition and change leading up to the toppling of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
The Museum’s East German collections are the subject of a major Taschen publication, Beyond the Wall: Art and Artifacts from the GDR/ Jenseits der Mauer. Kunst und Alltagsgegenstände aus der DDR (Cologne: TASCHEN, 2014).
The Wende Museum preserves Cold War history, inspires a broad understanding of the period, and explores its enduring legacy. Named for the transformative period leading up to and following the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the museum
The Wende’s collections are a resource for the vanishing cultural and political history of the former East Bloc countries (Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania) and the Soviet Union. The Wende uses cutting-edge museum and archival models to support emerging fields of academic study in visual and material culture studies as well as cultural history. The museum promotes a multi-layered exploration and discussion of the Cold War era.
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