The Wende Museum of the Cold War announces the launch of its
online public
access catalog with highlights from its collections, and online catalo
gs of recent
exhibitions.
The online catalog [
http://www.wendemuseum.org/collections/online-catalog
] will
feature objects of particular historical and artistic significance f
rom the Museum's
collection of more than 100,000 unique artworks and artifacts.
Prominent among these will be original documents from the East Ge
rman border
guards at Checkpoint Charlie; a large collection of counter-cultural
Soviet poster
designs from the period of
glasnost
and
perestroika
; Soviet hippie materials; East
German hip-hop paraphernalia; Albanian artwork and historical witness
interviews; Hungarian artwork and photography; East German home movies; and
much more.
Featured image from The Wende Museum exhibition catalog "Fa
cial Recognition,"
exhibition presented 12/2015-03/2016, page from Merkmale des Äußeren von
Personen (People's Physical Characteristics), 1970, published b
y the Ministry of
State Security (Stasi), Hauptabteilung VI.
The Museum is also publishing online catalogs of its past and current
exhibitions.
Already available are "Communism for Dinner: Commemorative Plates
," "Face to
Face: Portraits from the East Bloc," "Artistic Collaboratio
ns in the Soviet Union
and the GDR," and "Facial
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