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“A Day at Our Homestead”
For the third year in a row, the Latvian Ethnographic Open-Air Museum welcomed the summer season with “A Day at Our Homestead”, a tradition that has quickly become a highlight of the museum’s annual programme. On 1 May, more than twenty museum sites were animated by singers, musicians, and craftspeople demonstrating activities typical of their respective regions and seasons. The Market Square featured a vibrant fair of traditional crafts and locally produced foods. Offering a unique journey 100–200 years into the past, the event invited visitors to experience the rhythms of rural life in earlier centuries. The programme was created in cooperation with the Latvian National Centre for Culture.
Grand Easter Celebration at the Latvian Ethnographic Open-Air Museum
Winter Light Trail: “The Sun. Winter Solstice”
The presentation of the book "The Dowry Chest Catalogue"
Harvest day 2024
On September 28 this year, we celebrated Miķeļdiena at the Latvian Ethnographic Open-Air Museum. There was a Miķeļdiena market, autumn harvest soup, and various activities for both adults and children in the Latgale village, Vidzeme farmer's homestead, and Kurzeme farmer's homestead, as well as a concert at the Borne Church.
Contemporary Arts Fair 2024
The Contemporary Craft Market is also becoming a stable tradition at the Latvian Ethnographic Open-Air Museum, offering the opportunity to witness the talent and remarkable creativity of artisans, who, based on traditional craftsmanship knowledge and skills, find and create modern solutions. Latvian artisans working with various techniques and materials are invited to participate, combining craftsmanship, technological advancements, and contemporary design elements in their creations. The handcrafted items must be high-quality and made by the artisans themselves. They should unite beauty with functionality, demonstrating both artistic independence and craftsmanship. The items represented at the market should reflect the contemporary demand for unique products while shaping visitors' individual taste and offering alternatives to mass-produced uniformity.
Easter celebration
Easter celebration 2024
Exhibition "Beautiful Handicrafts of Tohoku region"
Exhibition "Beautiful Handicrafts of Tohoku region"
Museum centenary celebration at the Riga Latvian Society House
Centenary conference
Look into our centenary conference, which happened at February 2nd in Riga Latvian Society House. Members of Baltic museums, experts of cultural heritage, leaders of international museum associations were talking about the history of making the museum, about the role of open-air museums in preserving culture heritage in Europe and their future perspectives. We had a very great joy about guests from international museum organizations and colleagues from the museums of Estonia and Lithuania.