First of all, doesn't fully belong in this sub section of the forum, but there isn't really any other section where it fully fits in. Since much of the guns in there are somewhat connected to the Soviet Union, I decided it would nevertheless fit best in here.
Recently I visited the "Latvijas Kara muzejs" in Riga, the Lavian War Museum. Taking a ton of pictures in there I uploaded them to a Google Drive, to share with some friends. I thought that maybe some in here would appreciate seeing them too.
Note I didn't took the pictures for showing them off, so they are "just" mobile phone snapshots, not more, not less. I didn't picture everything and mainly the stuff that attracted my interests/appeared of interest to me. The light also wasn't the best in some places, plus sometimes the glass protection made reflections, etc. - you know how it is to picture items in a musem!
Some notes: currently - for whatever reason - there is no entrance fee to the museum. Also, if you look close you'll see most items have a hole drilled to the barrel (and if you take a glance at the Berdan II you'll also see the bolt welded to the receiver), what to my understanding is "normal" for items that are on display for Russia. I therefore think that these items are ones that already were on display when Latvia was still part of Soviet Union.
While some items are kind of "touchable", some had sensors that made noises when you got too close. I had wanted to picture the barrel shank markings of the PU sniper rifle, but the loud noise and the quickly coming in supervisor of the museum made me only picture the scope number on the right side of the barrel shank
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My personal highlights, aside of that M.91/30 with PEM on side mount, were the two cutaway rifles, a Mosin Nagant and that Enfield Carbine. Also that Mauser pistol with the brass plate in the grips was very cool.
The videos at the end btw were in a special room which was located on the ground floor. I have no idea as to why these five guys were singing at all, and what they were singing. Mainly joined "the crowd" and took videos of some of what they were singing, before leaving that room again. I suppose these maybe are soldier songs.
Feel free to save the pictures if you want to (because at one day I'll be deleting that Google Drive folder again). If you want to use a picture somewhere else, please make sure to contact me prior to doing this.
drive.google.com
PS: fun story - another visitor in the museum had noticed that I was taking detail pictures of the guns. He walked up to me and we've had a small chat for a while, he was an American. Who knows, maybe he'll be reading these lines ...
Recently I visited the "Latvijas Kara muzejs" in Riga, the Lavian War Museum. Taking a ton of pictures in there I uploaded them to a Google Drive, to share with some friends. I thought that maybe some in here would appreciate seeing them too.
Note I didn't took the pictures for showing them off, so they are "just" mobile phone snapshots, not more, not less. I didn't picture everything and mainly the stuff that attracted my interests/appeared of interest to me. The light also wasn't the best in some places, plus sometimes the glass protection made reflections, etc. - you know how it is to picture items in a musem!
Some notes: currently - for whatever reason - there is no entrance fee to the museum. Also, if you look close you'll see most items have a hole drilled to the barrel (and if you take a glance at the Berdan II you'll also see the bolt welded to the receiver), what to my understanding is "normal" for items that are on display for Russia. I therefore think that these items are ones that already were on display when Latvia was still part of Soviet Union.
While some items are kind of "touchable", some had sensors that made noises when you got too close. I had wanted to picture the barrel shank markings of the PU sniper rifle, but the loud noise and the quickly coming in supervisor of the museum made me only picture the scope number on the right side of the barrel shank
.My personal highlights, aside of that M.91/30 with PEM on side mount, were the two cutaway rifles, a Mosin Nagant and that Enfield Carbine. Also that Mauser pistol with the brass plate in the grips was very cool.
The videos at the end btw were in a special room which was located on the ground floor. I have no idea as to why these five guys were singing at all, and what they were singing. Mainly joined "the crowd" and took videos of some of what they were singing, before leaving that room again. I suppose these maybe are soldier songs.
Feel free to save the pictures if you want to (because at one day I'll be deleting that Google Drive folder again). If you want to use a picture somewhere else, please make sure to contact me prior to doing this.
LatvijasKaraMuzejs - Google Drive
drive.google.com
PS: fun story - another visitor in the museum had noticed that I was taking detail pictures of the guns. He walked up to me and we've had a small chat for a while, he was an American. Who knows, maybe he'll be reading these lines ...
