Museums and castles in Kurzemes reģions

Latvian Road Museum programme for primary school groups on road safety, themed, as its name says, around a reflective tag. Booked all year,…

Latvian Road Museum programme for primary school groups on road signs. Booked all year, up to 25 participants.

The only museum in Latvia devoted to road building, at Šlokenbeka Manor: displays on road history and early road signs, a collection of cart…

The Pure Chocolate museum in Pūre tells the story of chocolate from cocoa growing to production, with a tasting of warm chocolate. In the ma…

A surviving old windmill where you can climb up, touch the millstones and hear the miller’s story. Suitable for families.

A fishing-heritage site where the village’s fishermen kept their nets; book a tour by phone, entry by donation.

A collection started in the 1970s by Aizpute theatre actress Valda Jēriņa: dolls in folk costume and rubber toys from Latvian factories, wit…

A museum at the “Ķīvītes” landfill of interesting objects rescued from the waste by staff of SIA Liepājas RAS: old radios, paintings and hou…

A private collection of over 200 sewing machines from various countries, from pre-war to Soviet models; the owner has a story about almost e…

The stone castle was built in 1348 by Master Goswin von Herike and served as the bailiff’s seat and an important stronghold of the Order. To…

An exhibition on village history and Pape Nature Park in a historic 1936 fish-receiving station. Arrange a visit with the tourist centre by…

A farmer’s and fisherman’s homestead in Pape’s Ķoņi village with old tools; the house dates from 1890 and the granary keeps a boat fragment…