Regimes Museum Information

Regimes Museum: An institution dedicated to the study of tyranny, dictatorship, and repression across history and culture with the goal of spreading hope, peace, freedom, and awareness of human rights violations. "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” The Regimes Museum is the culmination of an effort to collect, preserve, and archive material and artifacts from some of the most notorious regimes of the 20th century. It is both a museum and an educational institution that offers resources to scholars and students while applying lessons of the past to the present. Since 2003, the goal of the ever growing and expanding collection is to preserve the cultural, political, social, and personal artifacts and histories of individuals who were witnesses to some of the most notorious and infamous regimes of the 20th century in order to broaden the understanding of the nature of repressive regimes in the various forms, cultures, and nations they existed in. The repression, suffering, and destruction caused by rogue governments are a persistent and repeating phenomenon that can be seen throughout history and in its more modern forms in the 20th and 21st centuries. The permanent display focuses on what life was like for the victims as well as ordinary citizens through personal histories while also concentrating on the political apparatus, its leading figures and personalities, and their pride and joy; the armed forces, which tie the regimes to the wars they fought in. Our objective, beyond the preservation and displaying of objects and eyewitness accounts, is to become the premier educational institution that provides resources to students, scholars, and the general public while simultaneously helping our local community in honoring and supporting our veterans.