Ventspils Seaside Open-Air Museum
Objects of interest, Audio info available, Tactile objects and/or info in Braille, Accessible, Accessible to parents with baby-strollers, Accessible toilet, Parking lot for handicaps
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The museum is located within a large 4 ha territory near the seaside, where visitors can either enjoy a simple walk or, together with it, learn about North Kurzeme through various ethnographic expositions. There are more than 20 000 itms in the stock reflecting the life of Latvian and Liivs’ farmers and fishermen. Visitors will find a large sea boat collection and the largest anchor collection in the Baltics with 152 exhibits dating from the 17th century to present day (a very nice path leads through the park to see the various anchors, including really huge ones). There is also a North Kurzeme nature exhibition – a diorama with the most characteristic wild animals and birds. A walk around the Museum is complemented by a mobile app that can be downloaded when you visit the Museum.
One of the most notable exhibits of the Seaside Open-Air Museum are two Ml steam locomotives Ml-611 (property of the LDz museum) and Ml-631, 600 mm narrow-gauge railway Mazbānīši – steam engine locomotives with carriages, which still in the 20th century. In the 1960s, they ran regularly between seaside fishing villages. The steam engine was built in Germany in 1916; it weighs 9 tons and can reach a speed of 20 km per hour. From 1st May to 31st October the narrow gauge train Mazbānītis takes tourists not only around the 1.3km long route in the Seaside Park (Riņķa līnija), but also travels on the new Mountain Line (Kalna līnija). The narrow-gauge railway, though, is not adapted for visitors in wheelchairs.
Large and atractive events, such as international Museum Day, Day of Crafts on Ventspils city festival, Parishe’s Festivities, as well as Latvian traditional holidays and the Slavic Shrovetide day “Masļeņica” regularly take place at the museum territory.
Start your visit with the new museum building, where also some interpretation solutions for people with visual impairment have been provided (tangible objects, audio information).
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Riņķa Street 2, Ventspils
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+371 22466099
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The museum is located within a large 4 ha territory near the seaside, where visitors can either enjoy a simple walk or, together with it, learn about North Kurzeme through various ethnographic expositions. There are more than 20 000 itms in the stock reflecting the life of Latvian and Liivs’ farmers and fishermen. Visitors will find a large sea boat collection and the largest anchor collection in the Baltics with 152 exhibits dating from the 17th century to present day (a very nice path leads through the park to see the various anchors, including really huge ones). There is also a North Kurzeme nature exhibition – a diorama with the most characteristic wild animals and birds. A walk around the Museum is complemented by a mobile app that can be downloaded when you visit the Museum.
One of the most notable exhibits of the Seaside Open-Air Museum are two Ml steam locomotives Ml-611 (property of the LDz museum) and Ml-631, 600 mm narrow-gauge railway Mazbānīši – steam engine locomotives with carriages, which still in the 20th century. In the 1960s, they ran regularly between seaside fishing villages. The steam engine was built in Germany in 1916; it weighs 9 tons and can reach a speed of 20 km per hour. From 1st May to 31st October the narrow gauge train Mazbānītis takes tourists not only around the 1.3km long route in the Seaside Park (Riņķa līnija), but also travels on the new Mountain Line (Kalna līnija). The narrow-gauge railway, though, is not adapted for visitors in wheelchairs.
Large and atractive events, such as international Museum Day, Day of Crafts on Ventspils city festival, Parishe’s Festivities, as well as Latvian traditional holidays and the Slavic Shrovetide day “Masļeņica” regularly take place at the museum territory.
Start your visit with the new museum building, where also some interpretation solutions for people with visual impairment have been provided (tangible objects, audio information).