The Wende Museum
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Welcome

  • A bust of Soviet leader V.I. Lenin which has been painted pink and green by protestors.

    What is the Wende?

On View

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    Counter/Surveillance: Control, Privacy, Agency

    October 13, 2024 – October 19, 2025

Exhibition Audio Tour

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    Artist Voices: Audio Guide for Counter/Surveillance: Control, Privacy, Agency

    October 13, 2024 – October 19, 2025

    35 minutes | 12 stops

Open Storage Permanent Collection Displays

  • African Americans and the Soviet Bloc

    Ongoing
  • Samizdat and Surveillance

    Ongoing

Past Exhibitions

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    Undercurrents II: Archives and the Making of Soviet Jewish Identity

    October 13, 2024 – October 19, 2025
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    Visions of Transcendence: Creating Space in East and West

    November 11, 2023 – September 15, 2024
  • Undercurrents I: Stories, Symbols, and Sounds

    April 27 – September 15, 2024
  • Ceija Stojka and Scenes of Roma Life

    November 11, 2023 – April 7, 2024
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    Vietnam in Transition, 1976–Present

    April 1 – October 22, 2023
  • David Bowie in the Soviet Union

    April 1 – October 22, 2023
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    (De)constructing Ideology: The Cultural Revolution and Beyond

    November 13, 2022 – March 12, 2023
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    For Ruth, The Sky in Los Angeles: Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt and David Horvitz

    November 13, 2022 – March 12, 2023

Wende Special Collections Spotlight

  • Depictions of Stalin

    Ongoing
  • Interior Design in East Germany

    Ongoing

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