22.03.2011 12:47
The Munchausen's museum
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The Munchausen's museum is located at the picturesque seaside of Vidzeme in Dunte. It is 8 km from Saulkrasti, about 55 km from Riga, just next to the motorway Via Baltica. The museum of Munchausen is one of the succesful projects of "Munchausen's worl" that develops and improves endessly. They say that Munchausen is the most truthful man in the world. What is the reality? Come to visit us and you'll make sure of it. In Munchausen's museum everything is true there, yet different. The museum revives the legend of Hieronymus Karl Friedrich von Munchausen. In the manor house of Dunte placed in Vidzeme, Latvia he spent the happiest times of his life together with his wife Jacobine and people have been telling the tales of Munchausen for centuries there. The sea meets the wood there, in winter horses are being tied to church spires and it takes a single shot to kill ten ducks there.The Munchausen's museum is one of the most visited ones in Latvia. With its unusual exhibit it attracts either local or foreign tourists. In the room of Munchausen's wife Jacobine you'll find a real corner of 18th century ladies paradise. In baron Munchausen's turn you'll find a dozen of fresh game birds hunted down with a single shot. Baron Munchausen is a typical representative of landed classes of 18th century with the hunting and war as the main occupation. Hunting trophies, hunting horns, daggers, weapons, and Munchausen's wax figure with a string of ducks - these are only some of things you'll find at the museum of Munchausen. In Latvia the only collection of wax figures is being exhibited on first floor of Munchausen's museum. Many former and current celebrities have found their shelter there. Everyone can take a picture with Maestro Raimonds Pauls or basketball star Uljana Semjonova and other famous people. During summer time you can visit "Munchausen's inn", have a picnic and children will be able to have fun in playground. Get to know the world of Munchausen! |
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10.03.2011 07:19
The Museum of Ainazi Naval School
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On the Vidzeme seacost, at the Estonian border, there is a place called Ainazi. Small, quiet, thought alive with a Latvian spirit. The name of the town, Ainazi, has come from the Livi word "ainagi" - "solitary". The murmur of the sea and the summer heat as if inivite to walk to the sea where once a merchant port had been. At the end of the 19th century this port was placed third after St.Petersburg and riga, according to the number of the registred ships. The lively coasting between Riga and Pernava called for a shelter port on the Vidzeme coast. Thus, in 1900, after Russia’s Ministry of Communication had carried out research at the ainaþi and Salacgrîva seacoast, it was advised to build the port in Ainazi, for the place was better sheltered from the wind, it had a better anchoring ground, and it froze later in the season. The port and its constructions suffered in the two world wars. In the post-war years it had been left to the destructive impact of waves and ice. It was only fifty years later that the local inhabitants realized the necessity of the port and set about its reconstruction. Seafaring is the outset, the past, and the future of Ainaþi. The Museum of Ainazi Naval School bears withness of the past, as the cradle of Latvian seafaring. The museums is open to visitors cince July 20, 1969. |
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03.03.2011 08:39
Salacgriva museum
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In 1998 the Salacgriva museum was established. More info: phone: +371 64071981, fax: 64071995 |
