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17.05.2022
On the 18th of May 2022, Latvijas Pasts releases a new stamp and a cover dedicated to the Museum of the Occupation of Latvia. The new philatelic releases will first be available for purchase at the post offices of the largest cities, as well as in the e-shop of Latvijas Pasts https://veikals.pasts.lv/. The first day cancellation of the stamp is scheduled to take place in the Museum of the Occupation of Latvia at 1 Latviešu strēlnieku laukums, Riga, from 10 AM to 3 PM on the 18th of May 2022.
The face value of the new stamp is €1.20, and it corresponds to the postage of letter-post items weighing up to 20 grams in Latvia. The print run of the stamp is 25,000 copies. The release of the stamp is accompanied by the issue of a special cover with a print run of 800 copies. The philatelic releases have been designed by the artist Elīna Elere.
The visual design of the stamp and the cover features the graphic image of the renovated building and the logo of the Museum of the Occupation of Latvia.
The Museum of the Occupation of Latvia is a state-accredited private museum founded in 1993. It is maintained and managed by the public charitable organisation Occupation Museum Association of Latvia. The mission of the museum is to preserve the memory of what happened to Latvia and its people during the USSR and National Socialist German regimes from 1940 to 1991, to commemorate the Latvians who suffered and perished during these regimes, and to remind the world of the offences of foreign powers.
A visit to the museum is part of the diplomatic protocol of Latvia, and it is visited by many foreign leaders, diplomats and other representatives on official visits. Over 70,000 storage items were registered in the museum’s collection in 2022. With the aim to keep alive the memory of the occupation time, people have donated personal items to the museum and shared their memories. The museum’s specialists have recorded around 2,500 pieces of video evidence and life stories of eyewitnesses over 4,500 hours long, making it one of the largest collections dedicated to this topic in Europe.
The Museum of the Occupation of Latvia is located at 1 Latviešu strēlnieku laukums in a building that was constructed in 1970 as the Latvian Red Riflemen Memorial Museum. The designers of the building are sculptor Valdis Albergs and architects Dzintars Driba and Gunārs Lūsis-Grīnbergs.
In 2001, architect Gunārs Birkerts presented his vision House of the Future to the museum, which was the reconstruction design of the building, and as a result of the reconstruction the museum acquired almost twice as much space, including premises for a new exhibition, modern offices, specially equipped museum depositories and archive rooms.
The new stamp and the cover Museum of the Occupation of Latvia can be viewed here.
The next philatelic release is scheduled for the 2nd of June.
About SJSC Latvijas Pasts
Latvijas Pasts ensures the widest availability of postal services throughout Latvia by maintaining more than 600 post offices. The primary function of the company is provision of the universal postal service; Latvijas Pasts also provides commercial transport, express mail, payment, press subscription, retail and philatelic services. Latvijas Pasts is a wholly State-owned company with about 3,000 employees. The quality measurements of Latvijas Pasts domestic mail deliveries are regularly conducted by Kantar TNS, one of the leading market, social and media research agencies in Latvia. In turn, the quality measurements of the cross-border deliveries are provided within the framework of the International Post Corporation through the intermediary of the research companies Kantar TNS, Ipsos and Quotas.
Additional information:
Gundega Vārpa | Head of External Communications
E-mail: pr@pasts.lv; gundega.varpa@pasts.lv
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