Drawing on powerful propaganda machines, both systems advocated the superiority of their political and economic model, while criticizing that of the other.
USA/USSR: culture, propaganda, daily life, the race for records, the space race, politics, etc. These new displays explore various aspects of life in the two blocks during the Cold War through a multitude of objects and archives from the time.
Upside-down Trabant and Lincoln Continental fixed to the ceiling, a cascade of objects illustrate the consumer societies of the two systems from the 1950s to the 1970s. In the center of these exhibits, visitors can also watch propaganda films from each block on two screens. Propaganda and counter propaganda: dive into the thick of the Cold War.