Museum of Communism

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The Museum of Communism (Czech: Muzeum komunismu), located at V Celnici 4 in Prague, Czechia, is a space dedicated to presenting an account of the post–World War II communist regime in Czechoslovakia, with a focus on Prague.

The Museum of Communism was founded by Glenn Spicker, an American businessman and former student of politics, who spent $28,000 buying 1,000 artifacts and commissioning documentary filmmaker Jan Kaplan to design the museum. By his own account, Kaplan created a three-act tragedy displaying the ideals of communism, the reality of life under the regime, and the actions of the police state. It includes spaces depicting a schoolroom, a shop with limited supplies, and a secret police interrogation room.

The gallery is devoted to providing a timeline of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia. Written descriptions in Czech and English explain what it was like to live under the regime. [ original research? ]