[3][4] A day before the exhibition was attended by the President of Latvia, Egils Levits, and the Minister of Culture, Nauris Puntulis.

The collection also includes an audiovisual archive containing more than 2,300 video testimonials of deportees, refugees, and others affected by the occupations of Latvia.

[8][9] It was planned that the renovated museum building, dubbed "House For the Future" and designed by the Latvian-American architect Gunnar Birkerts, would be completed in 2020.

[10] The works were ultimately finished in late 2021, and in November the museum started its relocation back to the original building and the construction of the new permanent exhibition.

The wall-shaped "Tactile of History' (Latvian: Vēstures taktīla) memorial to the victims of Soviet occupation was unveiled next to the museum in summer 2021.