Digital collections, exhibitions and other valuable resources by Latvian culture and memory institutions
Alūksne bird farm
Alūksnes bird farm is one of the largest and most important companies in the region. It can be proud of a rich history which was compiled by the Alūksne city library, the Alūksne museum and the Alūksne zonal archive.
3D models of Latvian hillforts
3D models of Latvian hillforts, created from open-access LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) data – it provides detection and distance determination using light data. The project also includes a free open data repository at https://opendata.latvijas-pilskalni.lv/
A Latvian Suitcase
If you had to leave for an unknown country tomorrow – what would you put in your suitcase, and what would you leave behind? You might return after a few years, after decades, or maybe never. What is the most important thing that will help you in future, not just physically, but also in a spiritual, intellectual and emotional sense? Tens and hundreds of thousands of Latvians have had to answer this existential question over the last 200 years. This exhibition by the Latvians Abroad – Museum and Research Centre reveals the stories of some of the objects that once left Latvia and have now returned home.
Another Siberia – Latvian villages Timofeyevka, Nizhnyaya Bulanka, Suhonoy
The exhibition “Another Siberia - Latvian villages Timofeyevka, Nizhnyaya Bulanka, Suhonoy” brings together the impressions and results of the expedition in 2015, providing an insight into the life and history of three Latvian villages in Siberia. Timofeyevka, Nizhnyaya Bulanka, Suhonoy are villages in Siberia where Latvians have lived for several generations and where Latvian language can still be heard.
Art collection 2020
Online platform “Art collection 2020” (Mākslas kolekcija 2020) by Latvian National Museum of Art is a chance to show the world what contemporary artists in Latvia have created during the last 30 years in online media.
BE YOURSELF!
Virtual exhibition of the Melānija Vanaga museum „Esi pats!/Be Yourself!” – relates the experiences of five deported children
Book website
The Book website provides approximately 13,000 books – culturally and historically significant works published since 1586.
Brethren congregation manuscripts
Long after Gutenberg invented the printing press in the mid-15th century, literature continued to develop in manuscript form. One of the phenomena of manuscript literature is the manuscripts of the Brethren congregations in the 18th century. The exhibition traces the educational path of this community through manuscripts, images, and photographs.
Collection of Johann Christoph Brotze
Educator and local historian Johann Christoph Broce (1742 – 1823) collected and stored historical materials, drew and commented on the testimonies of his era, which he considered important, and also recorded everything with great precision, adding written explanations to the drawings, which sometimes fit into a few lines, but sometimes occupy several pages. Many of the objects and documents drawn by him have died or disappeared over time, but information about them has been preserved in the archive of J. K. Broce.
Collection of the Latvian Song and Dance Celebrations
The collection is dedicated to the history and traditions of the Latvian Song and Dance Celebration from its origins to the present day. The collection includes more than 6000 digitised items: posters, photographs, publications, documents describing festival organisation, sheet music collections, sound recordings, memoirs from chief conductors and organisers as well as other materials.
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