Monday, March 5, 2012

Museum of Communism

Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation
The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation is a non-profit educational organization in the United States, established as a result of an Act of Congress in 1993 with the purpose to commemorate "the deaths of over 100,000,000 victims in an unprecedented imperial communist holocaust".[3] Its name is derived from the Victims of Communism Memorial in Washington, D.C.
[more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Museum_on_Communism]

Museum of Communism, Czech Republic
The Museum of Communism in Czech Republic (Czech: Muzeum komunismu), located at Na Příkopě 10 in Prague, Czech Republic, is a museum dedicated to presenting an account of the post–World War II Communist regime in Czechoslovakia in general and Prague in particular. Situated above a McDonald's and next door to a casino just off Wenceslas Square, the Museum of Communism offers an immersive look at life behind the Iron Curtain. Genuine artifacts, informative text, and multimedia presentations keep alive the memory of what the Museum calls "Communism—the Dream, the Reality, and the Nightmare".

The Museum was founded by an American businessman, Prague bagel mogul Glenn Spicker.[1] Spicker, educated in political science at the University of Connecticut and Essex University, himself gathered much of the museum's collection of artifacts of the communist era at flea markets and junk shops in the Prague area. The Museum first opened its doors December 26, 2001, featuring exhibits created by its curator, Czech documentarian Jan Kaplan, and annotated by retired Charles University professor Čestmír Kráčmar.[2][3]
[more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Communism,_Czech_Republic]

Museum of Communism, Poland
The Museum of Communism is a museum focusing on the communist period of Polish history, located in the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw. The museum was founded in 1999 by Czeslaw Bielecki, Jacek Fedorowicz, and Andrzej Wajda, with the cooperation of Teresa Bogucka, Anna Fedorowicz, and Krystyna Zachwatowicz.[citation needed]
[more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Communism,_Poland]