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Toy electronic piano for children, USSR, 1980s.

@GDRvisuals He's upside down, so it looks more like the cosmos is conquering him!

"Man Conquers the Cosmos" mural in Potsdam, 1970s.

Baby Yoda is just capitalist Cheburashka. May the 4th be with you!

Palace of Youth and Sports in Prishtina, Kosovo, built in 1977.

@SciFiArchives Possible inspiration for the Rocketeer poster!

Statue of Yuri Gagarin in Moscow, completed in 1980

"Microelectronics in Socialism, For the Welfare of the People", poster from 1981.

"The Peaceful Use of Nuclear Energy", a GDR era mosaic by Werner Petzold in the 1970s. Originally commissioned for the main building of SDAG Wismut, an East German-Soviet company that mined weapons-grade uranium during the Cold War, it was dismantled and re-erected in 2009 at its current location near the Beerwalde mine dump.

Czechoslovakian space travel themed matchbox covers, 1963.

Soviet poster "Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement" (1927)

Architectural model design concept for East Berlin, 1959.

"Proletarian solidarity is our strength!", USSR, 1973

LA an inspiring city for creation and innovation. Night of ideas. ✨Such a great event @villa_albertine @FrierAdrien with Victor Le Masne, French composer. Happy to discover @wendemuseum Bravo @OscarGervet and team!

Night of Ideas is Saturday April 4! Check out some highlights of this year's program from @villa_albertine at the @wendemuseum. Full program here : nightofideas.org/los-angeles/

Culver City book festival, completed with a poetry authoring and zine making station, at @wendemuseum. 📚 ✨

Jewish Partnership for Los Angeles hosted a beautiful Seder at the Wende Museum to begin the Passover season! Thank you to all our friends and elected officials for joining us as we reflected on the act of resisting tyranny from Exodus to today

Punks at Leninplatz, East Berlin, 1980s.

Save the date!✨ Night of Ideas returns to @WendeMuseum on April 4 with a new all-day program. Workshops, video games, marionette theater, music by Victor Le Masne, talks across art, science & tech plus food trucks, VR... Free & family-friendly. 🔗 RSVP nightofideas.org/los-angeles

gMonday 📸 New work with artist Enrique Martinez Celaya @EMartinezCelaya for @InstallationMag @wendemuseum

Thank you Scarlet Cheng for this article on The Sextant, featured in The Art Newspaper (@TheArtNewspaper) for Frieze Los Angeles 2026. The exhibition is currently on view at the Wende Museum through October 11 and I'll be leading a walkthrough this Friday. Read the full article at the link in bio. @wendemuseum @friezeofficial

Soviet mosaic on a residential building in Almaty. Photo by Yuri Kuydin, Kazakhstan, 1981.