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Author Archives: The Wende Museum
Collected Fragments: Traces of the GDR
Fragments refer to what is left behind, broken, or has been isolated from lived reality. They reflect the imprint of time and memory. In the exhibition Collected Fragments, the idea of fragmentation is conveyed through three different levels. First, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Berlin Wall, Collected Fragments, exhibit, GDR
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Puppets, Sandmännchen and Mister Rogers
During my time interning at the Wende Museum, I have come across a lot of items to accession. Many commemorated the GDR in the forms of plaques, plates, scarves, handkerchiefs, towels, medals and porcelain statues. Other times, the items were … Continue reading
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Eastern European Textiles and Fashion in the 1950s
An Introduction to the Collection With over 2,000 textile samples from the 1950s, this collection provides a truly unique perspective into the East German textile industry, fashion and the development of consumerism within the GDR. The textile collection at the … Continue reading
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From Commemorating Lenin to Celebrating Alvin Ailey: Publication Rights in Transition
For most of my summer internship at the Wende Museum, I translated, transliterated, and catalogued Soviet Era Russian documents. For half of my internship, I cataloged Soviet Era documents from the 1930s-early 1980s. Lenin’s portrait, commemorative words towards the October … Continue reading
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The Hoffman Collection
By Nina Rao The home movies in the Wende Museum’s Audiovisual Collection present a compelling and valuable counterpoint to the DEFA-produced films which comprise the bulk of the Museum’s moving image collection. Historically, film preservation efforts have mostly focused on … Continue reading
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Audiovisual Collection
Since its inception in 2002, The Wende Museum has assembled a significant collection of rare audiovisual media formats, ranging from commercially produced films and audio recordings, to government sponsored educational film strips, to home movies, photographs, and slides. The Wende … Continue reading
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Self-expression in the Soviet Navy: Personal Embellishments on Uniforms
Amongst the collection of amazing artifacts found in the Wende Museum is a collection of uniforms. Two uniforms in particular caught my attention: Soviet Naval uniform shirts with decorated collar flaps and inner cuffs. The sailors had decorated their uniforms … Continue reading
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Jugendweihe
Every culture or religion on earth has a coming of age ritual. Each is carried out in its own way but represents the same thing: a time where a child is recognized as an adult and enters a new community … Continue reading
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Strahov Stadium: from Communist Glory to Rundown Practice Field.
After I had arrived and experienced living in Prague for a few weeks, I was struck by an absence of any recent history expressed in the buildings or sites of the city. Of course the overall sense of history in … Continue reading
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