Daugavpils Museum of Local Lore and Art Museum

The lesson takes place in the museum's exhibition hall "Region as part of the Republic of Latvia 1918-1940", where the museum educator's narration is supplemented by exhibition and collection items to provide students with a broader and more memorable story about Latvia and the city of Daugavpils in the interwar period. After the narration, a game is played where everyone can test their knowledge, as well as express themselves creatively by marking wooden medals with the symbols of the Latvian state.

The lecture takes place in the museum's exhibition hall "Region as part of the Republic of Latvia 1918-1940." The guide's narration focuses on the most important events during the period of the establishment of the Latvian state. The complex events of the War of Independence are explained and analyzed.

Visitors are offered a journey into the past and an insight into the history of the region starting from the 9th century BC. It also focuses on the events of the First World War in Daugavpils, as the city became an arena of war during this time. Personal belongings, weapons, and ammunition of soldiers of the Russian and German armies, as well as postcards, photographs and documents tell about this. The story of the War of Independence and the Daugavpils liberation operation, about the units of the Zemgale Division and the Cavalry Regiment deployed in Daugavpils during the Latvian Independence Period. The story of Latvia's accession to the USSR, about the Second World War, when its territory was occupied by German troops. The Soviet prisoner of war camp "Štalag 340" and the Jewish ghetto were established in the vicinity of Daugavpils.