Liepaja Museum

Tel.: 3422973, 3422327
Fax.: 3713422973

Info Telefon: 3422604
Besucher-Email: info@liepajasmuzejs.lv
http://www.liepajasmuzejs.lv...

Wed, Thurs, Sat and Sun 10-18 h
Fri 11–19 h

“The Liepaja Museum situated in a mansion with a pine interior, fireplaces and stained glass window dating from the beginning of the 20th century. Founded in 1924, the museum collection contains more than 110,000 items. 1 500 exhibits in the permanent exhibition give an insight into the past of Southern Kurzeme: its ancient history, ethnography, medieval towns and features of the 19th and 20th centuries. The museum has the largest exhibition hall in Liepaja that holds monthly art exhibitions. There is an exhibition reflecting the life and creative activities of the woodcarver Mikelis Pankoks. It is possible to book sightseeing tours of Liepaja, its environs and the beautiful Kurzeme region.“ (Latvian Museum Association)

Collections:
Anciet History
Middle Ages
Collection “Stannary”
Liepaja in the 19th century
Sculptor Mikelis Pankoks
Ethnography of Southern Kurzeme
The occupational regimes


 

The Dept ''Liepaja during the occupational regimes''

Fax.: 3713422973

Info Telefon: +3713420274
Besucher-Email: info@liepajasmuzejs.lv
http://www.liepajasmuzejs.lv...

Liepaja Museum

Wed, Thurs, Sat and Sun 10-18 h
Fri 11–19 h

The museum’s department “Liepaja during the occupational regimes” was opened on the 21st January 2001. Its mission is to maintain collective historic memory of the nation in order to strengthen its national self-consciousness, which is state system’s ideological and emotional basis, while recounting historic questions considering the loss of state system and occupational period. This department is situated in the building that during the Awaking period used to be the lodging of the Latvian National Front in Liepaja – 7/9, K.Ukstina Street.

The basic layout reflects the influence of international treaties of 1939 (Molotov-Ribentrop Pact and the USSR and Latvia’s mutual help treaty) on the Liepaja region socially politic, economic and cultural life – repatriation of german-baltics, the events of 1940-1942 – the beginning of the soviet occupational regime, socially economic transformations and changes, Liepaja during the Second World War, the repeated soviet occupation, deportations of 1941 and 1949, gulag, the Third Awaking, including the period of time from 1939 till 1991.

There is also Janis Laditis’ photo collection layout situated in this department. Besides, the museum’s collection and art thematic exhibitions are organized.

 

Pavilosta Regional Studies Museum

Tel.: 9226273

Info Telefon: 3498276
Besucher-Email: pavilosta.muzejs@tvnet.lv

16.9-14.5.: Mon-Fri 9-17
15.5.-15.9.: Wed-Fri 11-17; Sat and Sun 12-16 h

“On May, 1879, German Baron Otto Friedrich von Lilienfeld founded a port town and named it after his brother Paul Lilienfeld, Governor of Kurzeme (1868-1885) - Paulshafen, or Pavilosta. He also laid the foundation stone in the pilot's house, the first brick building in Pavilosta. Since 1992 this building has housed the Pavilosta Regional Studies Museum. The museum stores more than 6 143 exhibits. Over 1000 of them are on display in the permanent exhibition that tells about the history of Pavilosta and Saka district. Many unique historical items have been found in the Saka civil parish including stone and bone axes, bronze brooches and belts and even such a rarity as a honey press.“ (Latvian Museum Association)