Press

October 28, 2022

Edward J. Robin, 80, L.A.-based fighter for Soviet Jewry, dies

By Justin Jampol Ed Robin, who fought tirelessly to free Jews from the former Soviet Union, died Oct. 8 in Los Angeles at the age of 80. Ed, born Dec. 20, 1941 in Charleston, South Carolina, moved to Los Angeles with his wife Peggy in 1966. While working as an attorney, he became involved in […] Read More August 02, 2022

Apollo 15 Commander Presents Culver City’s Wende Museum with Moon Rock

Culver City, CA (August 2, 2022) – On July 30, 1971, Apollo 15 Commander David R. Scott joined a very exclusive club: the list of people who have set foot on the moon. In an afternoon ceremony on the 51st anniversary of this historical event, Scott presented Culver City’s Wende Museum with a geological sample he collected on the […] Read More March 09, 2022

Opening This April at the Wende Museum

Culver City, CA (March 9, 2022) – Two new exhibitions and an installation opening at the Wende Museum in April explore the ways historical distance, contextual change, and artistic appropriation colors the interpretation of artifacts. Opening in the Taschen Family Gallery, the exhibition The Medium is the Message combines Cold War-era political flags from Eastern Bloc […] Read More March 01, 2022

A Message from the Wende Museum’s Founder and Executive Director on the Conflict in Ukraine

Dear Wende Community, As a museum that specializes in the history of the Cold War in Eastern Europe and the former USSR, I have often been asked “why does it matter?” After all, the Cold War is a geopolitical conflict that was supposed to have ended more than thirty years ago. In a world that […] Read More December 14, 2021

Creative Community Center Coming to 10858 Culver Blvd

Culver City, CA (December 14, 2021) – Last evening the Culver City City Council unanimously approved the Wende Museum’s proposal for a Creative Community Center at 10858 Culver Boulevard. In the December 13 meeting, dozens of Culver City residents and community stakeholders spoke in favor of the proposal and cited the importance of leveraging the […] Read More October 04, 2021

Soviet Jewish Life Exhibition Opening This November at the Wende Museum

A new exhibition at the Wende Museum examines and explores how we remember history and highlights how changing perspectives can illuminate or obscure historical knowledge and insights. Read More September 20, 2021

The Wende Museum Announces The Robin Center For Russian-Speaking Jewry

From the 1970s to the early 1990s, it is estimated that nearly 1.5 million Jews left the Soviet Union in one of the largest mass emigration movements in world history. During the Cold War, Soviet Jews experienced discrimination and often were disciplined when they applied for exit visas. Jews whose requests to leave were refused earned the label “Refusenik,” and their movement became one of the pivotal political and cultural movements of the last half of the 20th century. Envisioned and underwritten by Wende Museum Board and Committee members Edward Robin and Peggy Robin, the Robin Center for Russian-Speaking Jewry will preserve the history of the Soviet Jewish experience, and make it accessible to scholars as well as the general public through digitization, public partnership, acquisition of at-risk collections, and sustained, dynamic programming with an emphasis on engagement with archival materials through artmaking workshops and educational activities. Read More February 25, 2021

Second Annual Culver City Nonprofit Convening and Awarding of Nonprofit Transformation Prize

Local nonprofit leaders came together virtually on February 25, 2021, for the second Culver City Nonprofit Convening and the presentation of the second annual Nonprofit Transformation Prize to Shoes For the Homeless. Representatives of more than 230 nonprofit organizations based in Culver City were invited to convene via Zoom for panel discussions on topics such as the future of philanthropy and anti-racism work in the nonprofit sector. Read More