Museum of Communism, Historical museum in Old Town, Czech Republic.
The Museum of Communism at V Celnici 4 in Prague presents the post-war communist regime in Czechoslovakia through 1,000 artifacts bought by founder Glenn Spicker and a layout by documentary filmmaker Jan Kaplan. Kaplan arranged it as a three-act tragedy, with a schoolroom, a shop with limited supplies and a secret police interrogation room.
The museum opened in 2001 and covers the 40 years of communist rule in Czechoslovakia. It documents the period from the Soviet occupation through the fall of the regime in the late 1980s.
The museum's name appears in Czech as Muzeum komunismu, and the exhibition is labelled in both Czech and English. Displays cover law and order, education, trade and business, with red and black artwork alongside the written panels. A shop stocked with limited supplies recreates the shortages of the period.
A visit requires no special preparation as the exhibition uses clear information displays and visual elements that are easy to follow. You can move through the rooms at your own pace and spend as much time as you wish with the exhibits.
The museum was founded by Glenn Spicker, an American businessman and former politics student, who spent $28,000 on 1,000 artifacts and hired documentary filmmaker Jan Kaplan to design it. Kaplan described his layout as a three-act tragedy: the ideals of communism, daily life under the regime, and the police state.
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