Red History Museum
Interactive museum of socialist Yugoslav life, in a factory that once armed the city's defenders.
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This guide to the Red History Museum in Dubrovnik traces a nineteen fifty-three carbon-graphite factory, known locally as TUP, that spent decades making pencils and industrial parts before switching to weapons for the city's defenders during the siege of Dubrovnik. It follows the building through its slow decline to closure in twenty twenty-one and into its second life, when historians filled its ground floor with rescued Yugoslav household objects, from a reconstructed nineteen seventies apartment to socialist soft drinks. You will hear how one room turns colder, built around the secret police and the surveillance that shaped ordinary lives.
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