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The sixth season of the Andrejsala-based Latvian Museum of Naïve Art is now over. It will welcome visitors again in the spring of 2012. Over the years, the museum has gained considerable popularity due to its extensive collection of Latvian and international naïvist masterpieces on display. Definitely a must-see for all art lovers!

Andrejsala is best explored on foot, as this would help you notice the sizeable territory's various historic and industrial artefacts: the early-1900s streetlights in the North End, port facilities, cranes and the decommissioned power station, later known as TEC or 'thermal power plant' and still housing its massive electricity generating equipment, now part of the heritage. Another congruent object of the local landscape is the Power Generation Museum with its abundant collection of information concerning the history of electricity usage in Latvia.

The first half of this year is about to bring a worthwhile addition to the north part of Andrejsala in the form of a Civil Defence Museum, one of the kind in the entire Baltic region. It is currently being set up inside an underground bunker in Andrejsala, originally designed as bomb shelter in the Soviet era.

On 30 November, 2006, during the celebration of the name day of Andrejsala, Astrīda Rogule, the head of the holding formation department of the Contemporary Art Museum, informed guests of the plans to build and organise the museum in the former building of the Thermal Power Plant on Andrejsala.