Zuzeum is a Riga art museum and home of the Zuzāns collection. Its exhibitions and public spaces occupy a converted former cork factory on Lāčplēša Street, linking an industrial building with changing presentations of Latvian and international art.
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An orange entrance and sculpture garden mark a change in the life of a former cork factory. Zuzeum opened the industrial site on Lāčplēša Street to the public as a place for art in 2020. Its galleries are home to changing exhibitions drawn from the Zuzāns collection and other artistic projects, while the building itself carries traces of a different kind of production.
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- The former cork factory was designed and built by Edmund von Trompowsky in 1910.
- Zuzeum opened on 10 September 2020.
- The Mūkusala Art Salon began publicly exhibiting the Zuzāns collection in 2010.
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