Wende Museum’s new location in Culver City

Workers carry a piece of art into the Wende Museum’s new Culver City location in what was once a bomb shelter. The museum has a collection of more than 100,000 objects from the Soviet Union and the former Eastern Bloc.

A large bust of Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin waits to be installed in the Wende Museum’s new location in Culver City.

Overview of the Wende Museum’s new location in Culver City. Founded in 2002, the museum has a collection of more than 100,000 objects of culture from the Soviet Union and the former Eastern Bloc.

A bust of Ernst Thalmann, a leader of the German Communist Party, is moved into place in the Wende Museum’s new location at the former National Guard Armory in Culver City.

Passport photos used by border guards in East Berlin hang on the wall of the Wende Museum’s new location in Culver City.

Justinian Jampol, director of the Wende Museum and Archive of the Cold War in Culver City, is shown with art and artifacts from the Wende Museum.

Busts of the Communist revolutionary Lenin line a shelf in the Wende Museum’s new location in Culver City.

Joes Segal, chief curator of the Wende Museum and Archive of the Cold War, helps install artwork in the museum’s new location at the former National Guard Armory along Culver Boulevard in Culver City.   (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

Busts of the Communist revolutionary Lenin line a shelf in the Wende Museum’s new location in Culver City. The museum has a collection of more than 100,000 artworks and objects from the Soviet Union and the former Eastern Bloc.