Historical Exposition “The Burning Conscience” Museum

The aim of the lesson is to strengthen the national identity, civic and national sense of belonging of young people, helping students acquire the necessary knowledge about the basic values of democracy and increase understanding of the possible threat, which is linked in the lesson to the events of Latvian history in the 1940s, the occupation and the loss of independence. The exhibition provides young people with the opportunity to discover in an interactive way why the restoration of democracy was impossible in occupied Latvia in 1940, to enter five authentic prison cells where the residents of the district arrested by the Cēsis district branch of the Latvian SSR Cheka were imprisoned during the occupation, and to get acquainted with the stories of resistance and fates of these people.