The Wende Museum

Effective Saturday, March 14, the Wende Museum will close temporarily to the public. Museum staff will continue to remain in communication with Culver City officials about updates from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. Organizations around the region are responding to the rapidly changing situation regarding novel coronavirus (COVID-19), and the Wende Museum is taking steps to ensure community safety. Please direct all inquiries to [email protected].

Culver City's 2021 Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration goes virtual this year with LISTEN UP and SPEAK OUT. Starting tomorrow you can celebrate the life and achievements of Martin Luther King, Jr. with a virtual reading of children’s books, inspired activities, as well as a community reflection. Learn More via Culver City - Local Government: https://www.culvercity.org//Neig/Virtual-Recreation-Center

Happy Wende-sday This week's find is a poster for the 5th World Festival of Youth and Students for Peace and Friendship or Weltfestspiele der Jugend und Studenten. Held in 1955 in Warsaw, the capital of the then People's Republic of Poland, the World Federation of Democratic Youth organized this festival during the rise of the peaceful coexistence concept introduced by Nikita Khrushchev among the socialist bloc. More than 30,000 young people from 114 countries participated... in this edition of the gathering. The motto of the festival was "For Peace and Friendship Against the Aggressive Imperialist Pacts." The Weltfestspiele continues today, with the most recent convening hosted in 2017 in Sochi, Russia. #Wende_sday_Find / #WendeOnline

Cold War Spaces makes its 2021 debut tomorrow with Reconstruction Space: Civilizing Europe After World War II, featuring Oxford historian Paul Betts who will be joined by Joes Segal, the Wende's Chief Curator and Director of Programming. Join the #WendeOnline at 12 p.m. PST via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us//3416080/WN_AgbFanWkQkiNOcqFLCdulw : View of the International Trade Fair Accra (Ghana), designed by Jacek Chyrosz & Stanisaw Rymaszewski in 1967; image courtesy of ukasz Stanek.

Start the week with a brand new #WendeCollectionReflection, exploring Mark Yakovlevich Kaplan’s 1969 painting titled Lenin Giving a Public Speech in Petrograd, on view now in the Museum section of "Transformations." : https://vimeo.com/498026963 Explore the exhibition: https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=nt1CQhsq4X5 ... #WendeOnline

Show some to your 's on #NationalHousePlant appreciation day! We definitely have a bit of envy for this 1950s East German table for potted plants, on view now in the Living Room section of "Transformations: Living Room -> Flea Market -> Museum -> Art." Try to spot all of the plants in the exhibit with a closer look through our 3D virtual tour: https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=nt1CQhsq4X5... #WendeOnline

On view now in "Transformations: Living Room -> Flea Market -> Museum -> Art," Chelle Barbour's collages were created during the early stages of the pandemic in the U.S. While the coronavirus spread across Asia and Europe, she was inspired to create a three-panel visual narrative reflecting the potential transformation of daily life in America. The work examines nostalgia, transformation, and the idea of using household goods as metaphors for COVID-19 viruses, personal protective equipment, and life during the pandemic. Barbour is our next guest on Art Past Present, co-hosted by Farrah Karapetian and Joes Segal, returning to the #WendeOnline Thursday, January 21 at 12 p.m. PST via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us//3715971/WN_aU7H4n1pR2mkX2gJnGLZiA Explore the exhibition: https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=nt1CQhsq4X5