ABOUT THE MUSEUM

Kubalu School – Museum is the oldest surviving wooden log school house in Latvia. Here, students and visitors can explore the 19th century learning environment – the classroom displays old school benches, writing instruments and prose works.

The oldest surviving log schoolhouse in Latvia (19th century). Classroom furnishings, mantelpiece, restored farmhouse and walking paths.

“At the end of 1842 the new schoolhouse was ready, a large stately building of the same dimensions as now (20 axes long, 20 axes wide). At the beginning of 1843, after Epiphany, the new school was opened.”
It was the first and for 28 years the only school for peasant children on the Dundaga estate.

ADVISORY

Kubalu School – Museum is located in the Dundaga municipality between Talsi and Mazirbe, a little off the highway to the right a few kilometres before Dundaga. Here, in a quiet forest, you will find the oldest wooden log school house in Latvia (1842) with an ethnographic homestead and adjacent territory.

In the classroom you will find old school benches, blackboards, ink, a pen, a 19th-century school book and a bookcase. The schoolchildren’s prose. You can always learn, even a little, in such an old school.

In the museum exhibition you will see the old CLASSROOM and the teacher’s VIESISTABLE, you can look at the sky through the mantelpiece in the FIREPLACE and visit the memorial living room of the first teacher ERNEST DINSBERG.

Lessons in the ancient classroom and other SCHOOL SOMA topics by prior arrangement.

Enter the CLET and the CAGUSE to discover the most characteristic household and agricultural objects of the 19th century. Explore the old school plan in the FIREPLACE. Discover the creative work of Ernest Dinsbergs, see samples of his handwriting, his special letters and the furniture he made in the teacher’s DZVOKLĪ.

Find out why the Baron of Dundaga exiled teacher Dinsbergs to Jaunjelgava and how he came back to school. Find out which famous people you know studied at Kubalu School and which Latvian intellectuals, writers and cultural figures have visited the teacher’s VIESISTAB.

Find out how the old school differs from the modern school, try reading in the old print, writing with ink and doing arithmetic sitting on the bench of the old school in KLASES. Find the words of the local “Dundjini” dialect in Latvian and listen to the Dundaga dialect.

PRICES

Entrance fee:

• EUR 0.50 for pupils, students, seniors and disabled
• EUR 1.40 for adults
• EUR 2.80 for a family with children
• EUR 10,- Guide in Latvian/hour
• EUR 20,- Guide in English/hour

Photo Ainars Gaidis