Latvian Museum of the Occupation

This museum near the old town documents the successive occupations of Latvia by Soviet and German forces between 1940 and 1991. Through documents, photographs, objects and personal testimony, it recounts deportations, resistance, the loss of independence and the eventual restoration of statehood. A reconstruction of a Gulag barracks conveys the harshness of the camps. Housed in a modern extension beside the House of the Blackheads, the museum stands as a central place for understanding the twentieth-century history of the Latvian nation.