Browse Items (16 total)

The windmill belongs to the older type of windmills, the so-called pole type. The case rests on a 6,7m long oak pole – axis. There is a pair of millstones – attrition mill.
The lower stone weighs around 800 kg, the upper – twice more. To change the…

Only manors were entitled to set up inns, which were built close to grinding-mills, churches, and main crossroads – the points of many people circulation. Coming back from the market farmers stayed at an inn for a night to have a meal and rest…

The building consists of a drying house, threshing room and chamber.
The school was set in the chamber (1704-1747), where children of peasants learnt reading, writing, numeracy, and religion. School lasted from the end of November till the…

The farmstead reflects the life style of an average wealthy peasant of Vidzeme in the period from the later half of the 18th century to the first half of the 19th century.
The buildings were grouped around the irregularly shaped courtyard with a…

The homestead consists of a fisherman’s houses transferred from the eastern coastline of the Gulf of Rīga. It reflects an average wealthy fisherman’s life style typical for the second half of the 19th century.
The main income was earned by fishing,…

In the Ethnographic Open-Air museum of Latvia visitors have an opportunity to get acquainted with 118 objects of ancient dwelling from all four regions of Latvia – Vidzeme, Latgale, Kurzeme and Zemgale. Here it is possible to explore the traditional…

The museum exhibition hall is arranged in Lubere estate servant’s barn built in the first half of the 19th century. It is open to the public during the summer season only.

Muzeja izstāžu zāle iekārtota 19. gs. pirmajā pusē celtajā Lauberes muižas…

In the past a single room building with a clay tile roof was located at the roadside. Blacksmiths’ equipment: forge, bellows, hammer anvils, tongs, etc. Blacksmith tools are also displayed: hammers, pliers, and drills. Various tools and household…

Farmsteads in the area of South Kurzeme are characterised by two courtyards: in the middle – a residential house, opposite of which – a cattle feedlot, between both buildings – a work or dirty yard.
Between the dwelling house and adjacently built…

Adorned with a porch, decorated pillars and doors the granary presents a building art monument typical for Kurzeme people.
In a grain granary there were storage containers for cereals, meat, honey, fat and other products, which were stored in jars…

The type of construction, the layout and the outer appearance of the building is characteristic of the South West Kurzeme (Curland) rural wooden architecture of those days, up to the beginning of the 20th century.
In the centre of the house there…

The inhabitants of Kurzeme used to combine a cattle shed, livestock, feeding shed, cart-house and servant’s barn under the same roof. In the 19th century this farm had 5 horses, 12 cows, 20 sheep and 6 pigs.
At present, a working cart, two-wheel…

The structure consists of three divisions: small entrance passage or anteroom, dressing room and bathing chamber with boulder fireplace and sweating bench. Water in the tub was heated by immersing hot stones in it. The smoke was let off through the…

Built in 1704-1705 in the former Renda parish of the district of Kuldīga near Usmas Lake as a branch of the Renda Lutheran parish. Re-erected in the museum in 1935.
On Sunday divine service and ceremonies such as christening, confirmation and…

A number of warehouses were built on the central banks of Liepāja port at the end of the 17th century. The warehouse “Bezdelīga” was transferred to the museum.
Blocks for load descent/ascent were equipped in the openings of roof windows. The first…