A museum to combat the Ceausescu cult?

Saturday marks the 90th anniversary of the birth of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu, who was executed in 1989. This prompts Costi Rogozanu to ask: "Why not open a museum about the Ceausescu clan? It would be Romania's most profitable cultural attraction. Why not show the costumes from the communist song competition, why not collect film documents and eyewitness reports? This would be a challenge for historians and artists; it would bring to life a commercial museum with an accurate presentation of history, which visitors will leave laughing or crying. It would not be an institution paying homage to dictators, but rather a dissection of the Ceauşescu myth that obsessed millions of people. Such a museum would be a wonderful place to discover the ridiculous."

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