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Ferestroika: The Interactive Museum of Communism in Bucharest
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Touch

Fun challenges, picture opportunities and many other things you can’t do in an ordinary museum.

Taste

We’ll treat you with homemade snacks and beverages, typical delicacies of this forgotten period.

Learn

Discover unique insights about the daily life in the 80’s from an English speaking guide – you won’t find this in the history books.

Life in the 80’s

An amendment in the 1984 version of the “Program for Scientific Feeding of the Population” adopted two years earlier states that each year, a Romanian is entitled to:
12

kg of sugar

39

kg of meat

12

liters of oil

166

kg of vegetables

78

liters of milk

Life in the 80’s

An amendment in the 1984 version of the “Program for Scientific Feeding of the Population” adopted two years earlier states that each year, a Romanian is entitled to:
12

kg of sugar

39

kg of meat

12

liters of oil

78

liters of milk

166

kg of vegetables

Did you know?

Starting 1985 there is only one TV station available, broadcasting for 2 hours each day. The party believed that more time spent in front of the TV meant less time spent working.
You could have access to hot water two times a week, for two hours. The gas pressure was so low during the day, that people preferred to cook during the night. Electricity is quite precious, with regular black-outs, forcing people to use candles.
Real coffee (Wiener Caffe being the most popular) is found only in foreigners shops and on the black market due to the soaring price and imports restrictions. Romanians can purchase instead a mix of 20% coffee and 80% various herbs (mostly oatmeal and chickpeas), ironically called “Nechezol” (Neigh-rol), or Chicory as surrogates.