Daugavpils Museum of Local Lore and Art Museum

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.