The Memorial of the Victims of Communism and of the Resistance in Romania

Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

 consists of the Sighet Museum (often confused with the Memorial) and the International Centre for Studies into Communism.

International Centre for Studies into Communism

The Centre was founded in 1993 by Ana Blandiana

Ana Blandiana

Ana Blandiana is a Romanian poet, essayist, and political figure. She took her name after Blandiana, near Vinţu de Jos, Alba County, her mother's home village.-Literary career:...

 and Romulus Rusan. Created and administered by the Civic Academy Foundation, it is an institute of research, museography and education.

Sighet Memorial Museum

The museum was by the Centre for Studies into Communism on the base of the former Sighet prison

Sighet prison

The Sighet prison, located in the town of Sighetu Marmaţiei, Maramureş county, Romania, was used by the communist regime to hold political prisoners...

 in 1993.

The restoration of the prison building was completed in 2000. Each prison cell became a museum room, which together presented the chronology of the totalitarian system in Communist Romania

Communist Romania

Communist Romania was the period in Romanian history when that country was a Soviet-aligned communist state in the Eastern Bloc, with the dominant role of Romanian Communist Party enshrined in its successive constitutions...

.