Memorial of the Victims of Communism and of the Resistance

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The Memorial of the Victims of Communism and of the Resistance (Romanian: Memorialul Victimelor Comunismului și al Rezistenței) in Romania consists of the Sighet Museum (often confused with the Memorial), located in the city of Sighetu Marmației, Maramureș County, and the International Centre for Studies into Communism, located in Bucharest.

Entrance of the Sighet Memorial Museum
Procession of the sacrificed beings, by Aurel I. Vlad.

International Centre for Studies into Communism

The Centre was founded in 1993 by Ana Blandiana and Romulus Rusan [ro]. Created and administered by the Civic Academy Foundation, it is an institute of research, museography and education.[1]

Sighet Memorial Museum

The museum was created by the Centre for Studies into Communism out of the ruins of the former Sighet Prison in 1993.[2]

The restoration of the prison building was completed in 2000. Each prison cell became a museum room, which together presented the chronology of the totalitarian system in Communist Romania.[2]

References

  1. ^ The Sighet Memorial to the Victims of Communism
  2. ^ a b "Short History of the Memorial Museum"
Interior with cell doors

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