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The Wende Museum

Name: The Wende Museum
Address: 10808 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90230, US
Telephone: +13102161600
Price range: Not applicable
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The Wende Museum

The Wende is a free art museum, historical archive, and community center in Culver City, CA.
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The Los Angeles-based Wende Museum is a non-profit collections-based research, education, and arts institute that preserves the past to inform our present.

08/21/2026

TOMORROW: East German home movies, recently digitized from the collection, will screen in the A-Frame Theater as part of the Archives Open House on everyday life in the GDR, running from 12 to 5 p.m.

As part of the open house, at 2 p.m. UCLA historian Dr. Glenn Penny will discuss how ordinary objects helped East Germans orient themselves and shaped the competition and connections between East and West.

RSVP for the talk at wendemuseum.org/archivesopenhouse or just drop by!

08/19/2026

This Sunday, leaders from museums and academia gather at the Wende to talk about the pressures facing public history.

The lineup changed this week. Anthea Hartig, director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, is no longer able to appear. Justin Jampol, our founder and executive director, will take her place on the panel.

Who controls the past, and who is allowed to speak for it, is what we are gathering to discuss.

The Future of History in the Public Sphere happens Sunday, August 23 at 10:30 a.m. This program is sold out.

08/14/2026

Take a peek into daily life in East Germany at the Wende Museum's Community Center on August 22, from 12 to 5 pm. Household objects, consumer products, counterculture ephemera, and more will be on display for visitors to peruse and engage with.

In addition to a display of selected materials, join historian Dr. Glenn Penny for his presentation Everyday Objects and Everyday GDR: Material Cultures and the History of Everyday Life in the Postwar Germanys, which will take place at the A-Frame Theater at 2 pm!

You can RSVP now at wendemuseum.org/archivesopenhouse, or just drop by that afternoon to check it out!

08/12/2026

A mouthwatering KCRW Summer Nights hits the Wende Museum this Friday, August 14.

From 6 to 10 p.m. enjoy a Good Food-curated Night Market, DJ sets from KCRW's Anne Litt and Nassir Nassirzadeh, and the galleries open late, just for you.

Free and all ages.

RSVP now at wendemuseum.org/kcrw

08/07/2026

A former revolutionary, Teofilo Ruiz left Cuba in 1961 with three changes of clothes, forty-five dollars, a box of ci**rs to sell, and a Spanish translation of Jacob Burckhardt’s A History of Greek Civilization. He became one of America's most celebrated historians.

This Saturday at 2 p.m. he shares his story.

Only a few tickets remain! RSVP now at wendemuseum.org/ruiz

📷: Departamento de Orientación Revolucionaria, Comandante en Jefe ¡Ordene!, 1961

07/24/2026

Tomorrow morning at 10:30, bring the little ones to Tales in Two Tongues, our bilingual Russian-English story time at The Wende Museum's Community Center. Our Archives Assistant shares tales from The Wende's collection of Soviet books, told in both English and Russian for children ages 4–8 and their families.

This space-themed session includes a special treat: a marionette performance courtesy of our friends at the Bob Baker Marionette Theater! 🎭

RSVP at wendemuseum.org/tales

07/18/2026

One week to go! What would you make from a broken cosmonaut?

We're still searching for a local artistic person to transform a damaged Soviet-era bust of Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space, into a new work of art. The finished piece returns to the museum with the possibility of future display, and the winner will be featured on our social media and in an upcoming newsletter.

Share your vision at wendemuseum.org/brokencosmonaut by noon on Friday, July 24.

One note: the bust must be picked up and returned in person at the museum in Culver City. We can't ship it!

This is an unpaid opportunity, with no stipend, fee, or reimbursement for materials. Open to all people 18 and over residing or working in the Los Angeles Area.

07/17/2026

Rest assured that the vegetables in the Wende collection are certified cyclosporiasis-free!

📷: Graf von Henneberg-Porzellan, LPG Pflanzenproduktion Vieselbach, East Germany, n.d.

07/15/2026

What would you make from a broken cosmonaut? 🚀

The Wende Museum is inviting an artistic person to transform a damaged Soviet-era bust of Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space, into a new work of art. The finished piece will return to the museum, with the possibility of future display, and the winning artist will be featured on our social media and in an upcoming newsletter.

To enter, tell us your vision through the form at wendemuseum.org/brokencosmonaut

Proposals are open now through noon on Friday, July 24.

One important note: the winner must pick up and return the bust in person at the museum in Culver City. We cannot ship it!

When it was in one piece, the bust measured 70.5 cm x 60 cm.

This is an unpaid opportunity, with no stipend, fee, or reimbursement for materials. Open to all people 18 and over residing or working in the Los Angeles Area.

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Address

10808 Culver Boulevard
Culver City, CA
90230

Opening Hours

Friday	10am - 5pm
Saturday	10am - 5pm
Sunday	10am - 5pm

Telephone

+13102161600

Website

http://www.wendemuseum.org/

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