Soviet everyday design in Latvian National History Museum

The Latvian National History Museum is opening a new exhibition, entitled “Soviet Everyday Design”, offering an opportunity to return to the past to find out about design in the former Soviet Union and to rediscover decorative arts and Minimalism. Covering the period between the 1950s and 1980s, the exhibition “Soviet Everyday Design” presents a variety of household items produced and used in Latvia and the Soviet Union. The exhibition presents an improvised Riga street with shops featuring constantly show-window display taking you though the decades and introducing the goods, packaging, fashion and accessories of the era. An authentic design of the 1950s and 1960s is also showcased. The wide range of the exhibited made-in-Latvia products includes equipment from the VEF and “Riga Radio Factory”, merchandise from the “Riga Porcelain Factory” and “Līvānu Glass”, perfumery and cosmetics from “Dzintars”, chocolate from “Laima”, as well as photos of electric diesel-engine trains, mopeds and minibuses.