"Waiting for the Historically Curious"

Three years ago, the decade-old museum joined with street artists to assemble a synthetic wall across Wilshire Boulevard, and then invited Angelenos to tear it down. That event—marking the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall's demise—brought media attention and broadened the museum's fan base to more than a constituency of professors, graduate students and historians, Wende Executive Director Justinian Jampol said.
"'We're not officially open on the weekends,' Jampol said as local college students hummed around paintings on a recent Saturday. 'But as you can see, that is not necessarily the case.'"

Andrew Khouri in the Los Angeles Times discusses expansion plans for Culver City's Wende Museum of Cold War history.