Museums and castles

The Bermontiade episode of Latvia's War of Independence: logic tasks, coded messages and a discussion of how to free Jelgava.

A new lesson about the ancient Semigallians, the origin of the name Mitau, their clothing and jewellery, with a colourful workbook featuring…

Pupils discover the museum as a store of cultural and historical heritage and move through the halls from ancient times to the Soviet occupa…

The programme was created in 2020 together with the renewed exhibition “Prehistory and the Middle Ages in Zemgale”. Through the finds on dis…

A museum lesson on a late-19th-century coastal fisherman’s farmstead in Lielupe: participants get to know the fishermen’s daily life and wor…

The museum is in the Academia Petrina building of 1775, home to the first university on the territory of present-day Latvia. Its exhibitions…

A programme for families with children aged about 3–12: 10–15 guests spend 45 minutes with a guide exploring the museum’s locomotives, carri…

A free 45-minute lesson in which a museum educator talks with children about how to behave at a station, on a platform and near the tracks,…

A museum lesson on how grain becomes flour and bread and how freshly milked milk turns into dairy products, as well as on life on a traditio…

A 90-minute programme at Cēsis Medieval Castle: led by castle servants, pupils learn about the life of the Order brothers in a military mona…

A session of about an hour and a half for families with children aged 5–13. In the first part, stories and games in the museum’s exhibition…

Founded in 1999 and modernised in 2019, the Lapmežciems museum tells of the work and daily life of the coast’s fishermen from ancient times…