1991 Barricades Museum Museum

Students are offered various activities in the halls of the museum. In the first hall, students can get an idea of life in the USSR, about the Revival, see posters on social topics. In the second hall, students put on three characters of the time of the barricades, dressing up one of the group members as a barricade defender, a member of the militia of the Republic of Latvia or an OMON fighter, choosing suitable items from the props boxes. In the third hall, students place models of equipment on specially designed city maps in those city objects that they think need to be defended today and that were defended in 1991. In the hall dedicated to the January 20 shooting, students have the opportunity to watch a specially created animated film, where the January 20 attack on the Ministry of the Interior has been reconstructed. In the "Echo of Barricades in the World" hall, you can see a car from the time of the barricades and a satellite dish that transmitted information about the barricades to other countries. The students are given a task to divide into three teams and the leader of the excursion determines the task of each team - to prepare a short message about one of the events of the barricades, which will be broadcast 1) on the radio 2) on TV or covered in the press.