Comments on: The Communist Consumers Museum https://rachelsruminations.com/communist-consumers-museum/ Taking the road less traveled Sun, 14 Sep 2025 16:14:25 +0000 hourly 1 By: Rachel Heller https://rachelsruminations.com/communist-consumers-museum/#comment-39159 Sun, 14 Sep 2025 16:14:25 +0000 https://rachelsruminations.com/?p=9503#comment-39159 In reply to slindt.

It was fun and, yes, much less “professional” or “whizzy” than most.

]]> By: slindt https://rachelsruminations.com/communist-consumers-museum/#comment-39157 Fri, 12 Sep 2025 11:47:11 +0000 https://rachelsruminations.com/?p=9503#comment-39157 This place sounds fantastic! I am so bored of the curated, over-produced museums in USA that are expensive and tend to distance you from the subject with ropes, lines, endless too-small text and guards. I’ll do my best to get to this one, although my last roll through Romania was anything but pleasant. Thanks for the suggestion!

]]> By: Agness of Fit Travelling https://rachelsruminations.com/communist-consumers-museum/#comment-12699 Fri, 15 Sep 2017 13:48:29 +0000 https://rachelsruminations.com/?p=9503#comment-12699 This is the first time I am hearing about this museum and it seems worth visiting, Rachel. Is it usually crowded?

]]> By: Rachel Heller https://rachelsruminations.com/communist-consumers-museum/#comment-12672 Sat, 09 Sep 2017 12:54:37 +0000 https://rachelsruminations.com/?p=9503#comment-12672 In reply to Suzanne Fluhr.

Exactly what I pictured! Not people spending money on dust collector chotchkes to sit on shelves! I’ll have more posts on Romania in the next several weeks.

]]> By: Suzanne Fluhr https://rachelsruminations.com/communist-consumers-museum/#comment-12669 Sat, 09 Sep 2017 04:56:21 +0000 https://rachelsruminations.com/?p=9503#comment-12669 This post was my impetus for starting a Romania Pinterest board, so there it now resides in all its pinned glory. Did anyone in the pub know anything about the museum, its origins, purpose, plans? Whenever I think about life behind the dum, dum, dum, dum (cue scary Radio Free Europe music) Iron Curtin, I imagine a life devoid of consumer goods beyond very basic commodities and food. I’m pretty sure my social studies text books had photos of people queuing up for their weekly bread ration. Interesting find.

]]> By: Rachel Heller https://rachelsruminations.com/communist-consumers-museum/#comment-12666 Fri, 08 Sep 2017 12:40:14 +0000 https://rachelsruminations.com/?p=9503#comment-12666 In reply to travelnwrite.

Thanks! I think there may be a lot of museums that result just from people’s over-the-top urge to collect things!

]]> By: travelnwrite https://rachelsruminations.com/communist-consumers-museum/#comment-12664 Thu, 07 Sep 2017 22:34:18 +0000 https://rachelsruminations.com/?p=9503#comment-12664 I love the museums you take me to as I would likely never find them on my own. And I have to admit those museum displays looked remarkably like my summer of slogging clean out efforts. Perhaps instead of selling the house I should have just hung a sign and made it a museum!! Most fun post!

]]> By: Rachel Heller https://rachelsruminations.com/communist-consumers-museum/#comment-12661 Wed, 06 Sep 2017 17:16:52 +0000 https://rachelsruminations.com/?p=9503#comment-12661 In reply to Doreen Pendgracs.

Haha! It would drive me crazy to have that much clutter in my home! (Though we do have some clutter, it’s nothing near this bad!)

]]> By: Rachel Heller https://rachelsruminations.com/communist-consumers-museum/#comment-12660 Wed, 06 Sep 2017 17:16:00 +0000 https://rachelsruminations.com/?p=9503#comment-12660 In reply to Cathy Sweeney.

I’m finding that I’m drawn to this kind of museum: ones that show just random stuff that people have collected. There’s something fascinating about the odds and ends of everyday life.

]]> By: Cathy Sweeney https://rachelsruminations.com/communist-consumers-museum/#comment-12656 Wed, 06 Sep 2017 04:19:34 +0000 https://rachelsruminations.com/?p=9503#comment-12656 As I was reading this, I kept wondering how this museum even came to be — just as you were. I would love to see this place just as it is — disorganized and begging questions. It’s definitely a different kind of museum than I’ve come across.

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