Museum
The Wende Museum of the Cold War
11 locals recommend,
Location
10808 Culver Blvd
Culver City, CA
Park West
Tips from locals
Museum featuring Cold War-era European & Soviet Union artifacts & history archives.
This museum is elegant, unusual and also free to the public. Since we have relatives that lived in East Germany, it is especially poignant to us.
An earnest exhibition compiled by a young, Cold War–obsessed academic, this small collection is somewhat appropriately located in an anonymous office park, making it feel like an undercover operation. There are Stasi artifacts here, along with propaganda posters, remnants of the East German counterculture and segments of the Berlin Wall. So why is it in LA? According to founder Justinian Jampol, the geographic remove lends critical distance. Case in point: the Wende’s acquisition of East German ruler Erich Honecker’s personal papers, which Honecker requested be housed in a non-German institution.
An earnest exhibition compiled by a young, Cold War–obsessed academic, this small collection is somewhat appropriately located in an anonymous office park, making it feel like an undercover operation. There are Stasi artifacts here, along with propaganda posters, remnants of the East German counterc…