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Building for the future Drafts for the Museum's enlargment project, which we call Nākotnes Nams (NN, Building for the Future), have been completed, and the City Building Office has issued an architectural planning permit setting forth certain conditions and approvals that must be obtained before preparation of technical drawings.
The project's architect, notable Latvian-American architect Gunars Birkerts, believes: "The Bretheren's Cemetery, the Freedom Monument, and the Museum of the Occupation of Latvia are three symbolically important points in Riga's city plan." About the Museum's new form he says: "The architecture of the Occupation Museum facade composition, both on the side of Rātslaukums (Town Hall Square) and on the side of Strēlnieku laukums (Riflemen's Square), is a significant testifier to its era's architecture and a contributor to the formation of Riga's city environment."
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CURRENT New exhibition "Latvia 70 years ago".
The exhibition is subtitled in Latvian, Russian, and English deals with the occupation of Latvia in 1940. Other than usual the exhibition take place outside the museum. On the outer walls of the building, numerous photos, documents and cards, will point to the illegality of the occupation of Latvia and its subsequent annexation by the Soviet Union.
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CURRENT
Bookstore of the museum offers interactive digital map of GULAG camps.
Digital map represents GULAG system, location of camps and routs of deportations. Information in the map is narrated story rich of illustrations.
Map is in Latvian, English, German and Russian.
Available at the museum. Price: 7 Ls
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