Museum of Communism
The Museum of Communism presents a focused, human-scale account of life under Czechoslovakia’s communist regime from 1948 to 1989, anchored in concrete artifacts and rooms that tell the story from the inside out. Founded on December 26, 2001, the museum was created to document political oppression, propaganda, resistance, and the Velvet Revolution’s impact, offering visitors a tangible sense of daily life under the regime. The collection began when Glenn Spicker, an American businessman and former student of politics, purchased 1,000 artifacts for about $28,000 and commissioned documentary filmmaker Jan Kaplan to design the space. Kaplan describes the exhibition as a three-act narrative: the ideals of communism, the reality of life under the police state, and the mechanisms of control. …
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