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This means that the building will now be prepared for the upcoming winter season, and the building's exhibitions will be expanded.

The building is currently closed for visitors, but is expected to re-open in January after the building is properly prepared for the winter season.

The former KBG building, also known as the Corner House by locals, opened this past May, offering several exhibitions and guided tours of the building, and hosting various conferences, discussions, concerts and seminars. It became one of the most popular events in Riga's European Capital of Culture program.

Discussions continue still on what should be done with the building after the exhibition "Corner House. Case No. 1914/2014" closes. The Culture Ministry supports preserving the Corner House as a cultural and historic monument and a place paying homage to the victims of Soviet persecutions.

As reported, the Museum of the Occupation of Latvia has set-up an exhibition in the building as part of the European Capital of Culture Year in Riga, which tells about the activities and atrocities committed by the Soviet State Security Committee (KGB) in Latvia.

After the occupation of Latvia on June 17, 1940, the building became the headquarters of the State Security Committee of the Latvian SSR, commonly known as the "čeka". It did not take long for part of the basement and the ground floor to be reconstructed as prison cells and a place of torture and execution.