The Czech official narrative about the communist past is retrograde and politicized

A critical view from German and Czech museums All photos Muriel Blaive, 2023 Many thanks to Gérard-Daniel Cohen for his critical remarks on this text. I recently visited eight museums dealing with the communist period in Germany: the permanent exhibition Everyday Life in the German Democratic Republic at the Museum in der Kulturbrauerei in Berlin; the temporary exhibits No Man’s Land and Model Village, by photographer Bettina Flitner, also at the Museum in der Kulturbrauerei; the Tränenpalast – Site of German Division in Berlin; the Cold War Museum in Berlin; the DDR Museum in Berlin; the temporary exhibitions Wolf Biermann – A Poet and Songwriter in Germany and Roads Not Taken. Or: Things Could Have Turned Out Differently at the Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin; the Berlin Wall Memorial in Berlin; and the Deutsch-Deutsches Museum Mödlareuth – Memorial to the Division of Germany in Mödlareuth at the border between Bavaria and Thuringia (ex-GDR), to which I would add the Memorium of the Nuremberg Trials in Nuremberg, which is of course concerned with the Nazi era but is an interesting methodological example, as well as various exhibits and memorials of the 1944 Allied landing in French Normandy which I previously discussed here. In Prague I also visited this year the permanent collection of the National Museum dedicated to the communist period, as well as the temporary exhibit Zneužitá muzea (Abused Museums.) I have also done previous work on the privately-owned Museum of Communism.

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