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Latvian national register of the UNESCO “Memory of the World” program
“Documentation of Traditional Skills and Lifestyles in the Photographic Negatives of the Monuments Board 1924–1931 Expeditions”
Since 2013, the Latvian National Register of the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme has included the LNMH nomination “Documentation of Traditional Skills and Lifestyles in the Photographic Negatives of the Monuments Board 1924–1931 Expeditions”.
The nomination consists of 802 photographic negatives taken during the ethnographic monument survey and collection expeditions of the Ministry of Education Monuments Board. They reflect the traditional way of life in the Latvian countryside, documenting crafts, farming, animal husbandry, fishing, collective bees, daily life and traditional festivities. As a documentary visual record of traditional lifestyles in the early 20th century, depicting a lost cultural reality, the photographic negatives help modern society understand Latvian history and people.
Head curator of the collection Gunita Baumane
“Letters from Siberia on Birch Bark”
The nomination of the Tukums Museum, “Letters from Siberia on Birch Bark”, is included in the Latvian National Register of the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. It comprises letters sent from 1941 to 1956 by the repressed people of Latvia and Lithuania from prison camps or places of internment to their relatives. The letters, written on birch bark, are held in 11 Latvian museums.
From the LNMH collection, the nomination includes two letters sent by Ernests Adrians Albinors Ķirķis (1913–1985) to his mother in Riga in 1947 and 1948 from the Kizel correctional labour camp in the Molotov (Perm) Region of the RSFSR.
Head curator of the collection Ilze Zīberte-Ķikute
International register of the UNESCO Memory of the World “The Baltic Way – Human Chain Linking Three States in Their Drive for Freedom”
In 2009, the LNMH Popular Front Museum collection materials of the Baltic Way were included in the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme’s international register nomination “The Baltic Way – a Human Chain Linking Three States in Their Drive for Freedom”.
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