The mis­sion of the Wende Muse­um is to pre­serve Cold War his­to­ry. The muse­um’s exhibits and arti­facts include art­work, films and per­son­al his­to­ries from the fall of Com­mu­nist Europe in the late 1980s. Much of the col­lec­tion is about the Ger­man Demo­c­ra­t­ic R