The Communist Consumer Museum, gateway to Romania's nostalgic past

The Communist Consumer Museum, gateway to Romania's nostalgic past

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In some of my previous posts I kept mentioning the communist period here in Romania, that is the period before 1989 and I was telling you how hard was the everyday life in that period, I don't go into the dark details about that period but yesterday I remembered something I read online.

The Communist Consumer Museum has reopened, I've been reading about this unique museum in Romania for some time (I have no other information about other such places) only that it was under renovation and closed.

I checked that the information I read was correct and to make sure it had reopened, then I got in the car and drove to the museum.

The Communist Consumer Museum is located in Timisoara on 1 Arhitect Laszlo Szekely Street, and in order to visit it you don't have to pay anything, instead you can make a donation to help its maintenance.

The museum can be visited daily from 10 am to 11 pm, the program may be different for public holidays.

What makes this museum so special?

The Communist Consumer Museum is a museum owned by a private person, even the one who came up with the idea to create it, more this museum brings to light the life of people during the communist period but especially how an apartment looked like over 50 years ago.

The concept of the museum is amazing, I'm fascinated by the way it was thought, why I say this, because many people after visiting the museum and realized that they still have some old objects at home that they no longer needed (probably those objects would have thrown them in the trash), or decided to donate them to this museum, so the museum today has over 500 vintage objects.

Let's take a walk through the pre-1989 history here in Romania.

In the picture below you can see what kind of TVs we were watching back then (by the way, you had to be pretty rich to own one).
What you saw on those TVs was black and white, they weren't color.

Below you can see some glass ornaments in the shape of a fish, I don't think there's a home where you can't see one.

A very old typewriter, and yes, back then there were no computers and keyboards, just these typewriters.

As I said, there is no barrier between the exhibits and the visitor.

To be honest, the museum moved me quite a lot, looking on its shelves and seeing many of the exhibits reminded me that I had those objects at home (toys, trinkets, the uniform I was forced to wear to school), many of them I still have today (I would not give them up for anything in the world), I can say that I am a lucky person to still have them.

Working-class women wore this dress.

The Communist Consumer Museum is a living history lesson, it is certainly unique, why I say that, because once you enter the museum, you, as a visitor, have no barriers between you and the exhibits, you, as a visitor, can touch them (of course, being careful not to damage them, so that others can enjoy them as much as you do), you can browse through the notebooks or books there, it is wonderful to experience something like that.

This was the uniform girls were forced to wear to school.

In closing my today's post I can say that I ticked another special place, I didn't even think it would be such a nice experience, if somehow you will search on the profile sites, what you can do in Timisoara, you will surely find visiting this museum, besides other activities.

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P.S. The attached picture you have just seen are taken by me with my mobile phone(Samsung Galaxy S21)the photo collage I made with PhotoScape , and the text is also designed by me.

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