The Wende Museum

The Wende is an art museum, cultural center, and archive that preserves history and brings it to life.

[Soviet Visuals @sovietvisuals]

Toy electronic piano for children, USSR, 1980s.

[The Wende Museum @wendemuseum]

@GDRvisuals He's upside down, so it looks more like the cosmos is conquering him!

[Soviet Visuals @sovietvisuals]

Baby Yoda is just capitalist Cheburashka. May the 4th be with you!

[Yugoslavian Visuals @YugoslavVisuals]

Palace of Youth and Sports in Prishtina, Kosovo, built in 1977.

[The Wende Museum @wendemuseum]

@SciFiArchives Possible inspiration for the Rocketeer poster!

[East German Visuals @GDRvisuals]

"Microelectronics in Socialism, For the Welfare of the People", poster from 1981.

[East German Visuals @GDRvisuals]

"The Peaceful Use of Nuclear Energy", a GDR era mosaic by Werner Petzold in the 1970s. Originally commissioned for the main building of SDAG Wismut, an East German-Soviet company that mined weapons-grade uranium during the Cold War, it was dismantled and re-erected in 2009 at its current location near the Beerwalde mine dump.

[Eastern Bloc Visuals @eastblocvisuals]

Czechoslovakian space travel themed matchbox covers, 1963.

[USSR Pictures @PicturesUssr]

Soviet poster "Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement" (1927)

[East German Visuals @GDRvisuals]

Architectural model design concept for East Berlin, 1959.

[USSR Pictures @PicturesUssr]

"Proletarian solidarity is our strength!", USSR, 1973

[Odile Roujol @Odile_Roujol]

LA an inspiring city for creation and innovation. Night of ideas. ✨Such a great event @villa_albertine @FrierAdrien with Victor Le Masne, French composer. Happy to discover @wendemuseum Bravo @OscarGervet and team!

[Consulate of France in Los Angeles @FranceinLA]

Night of Ideas is Saturday April 4! Check out some highlights of this year's program from @villa_albertine at the @wendemuseum. Full program here : https://t.co/xbTz9koOz8

[👩‍💻 Paige Bailey @DynamicWebPaige]

Culver City book festival, completed with a poetry authoring and zine making station, at @wendemuseum. 📚 ✨

[Emma Taylor @emmarolyat]

Jewish Partnership for Los Angeles hosted a beautiful Seder at the Wende Museum to begin the Passover season! Thank you to all our friends and elected officials for joining us as we reflected on the act of resisting tyranny from Exodus to today

[East German Visuals @GDRvisuals]

Punks at Leninplatz, East Berlin, 1980s.

[Consulate of France in Los Angeles @FranceinLA]

Save the date!✨ Night of Ideas returns to @WendeMuseum on April 4 with a new all-day program.
Workshops, video games, marionette theater, music by Victor Le Masne, talks across art, science & tech plus food trucks, VR...
Free & family-friendly.
🔗 RSVP https://t.co/SPTpNPmBO6

[Rainer Hosch @rainerhosch]

gMonday 📸
New work with artist Enrique Martinez Celaya @EMartinezCelaya for @InstallationMag @wendemuseum

[Enrique Martínez Celaya @EMartinezCelaya]

Thank you Scarlet Cheng for this article on The Sextant, featured in The Art Newspaper (@TheArtNewspaper) for Frieze Los Angeles 2026. The exhibition is currently on view at the Wende Museum through October 11 and I'll be leading a walkthrough this Friday.

Read the full article at the link in bio.

@wendemuseum @friezeofficial

[Soviet Visuals @sovietvisuals]

Soviet mosaic on a residential building in Almaty. Photo by Yuri Kuydin, Kazakhstan, 1981.