1991 Barricades Museum Museum

Students are offered various activities in the halls of the museum and in Riga, at the barricades. 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 In the second hall, students watch the film "Time of our barricades", discuss the strategically important protected objects. In the third hall, "With spirit against troops", students learn about the two opposing forces, the People's Front and the Interfront, other Latvian cities that were also very important points in the barricades, as well as they can see the model of the Council of Ministers and on the touch-sensitive screens they can view photo and video materials from the 1991 barricades museum collection. 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 hall "Echo of barricades in the world" there is an opportunity to 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 the task to divide into three teams and the excursion leader determines the task of each team. Later, accompanied by a guide, the students visit the main barricade sites in Old Riga, which they have heard about before - Dom Square, the Saeima House and the memorial plaque of the barricades placed next to it, Bastejkalni and the former Ministry of the Interior building, the Freedom Monument, the 11 November embankment and Kaļķu Street - as the only entry way into Old Riga in January 1991.