ABOUT THE MUSEUM
Bauska Museum is located in the centre of the oldest part of the town – in the Town Hall Square, near the busiest thoroughfare – Kalna Street, in the building of the former hotel “Kurzeme”.

The museum staff has successfully created a new attractive historical exposition “Bauska in Time and People in Bauska in the 20th Century”. The museum’s collection consists of more than 56 thousand items: antiques, photographs, documents, books, furniture, tools, household items and other historical evidence.

Historical, art and other exhibitions are regularly held in the extensive exhibition halls.

The museum is home to the weavers of the Folk Applied Art Studio “Bauska”, who also provide advice on the assembly and production of folk costumes of the Zemgale region.

We are developing cooperation with schools – we offer the possibility to hold lessons related to the history of the region for groups of pupils and classes under the guidance of museum specialists

MUSEUM EXHIBITION

• “Bauska in Time and People in Bauska in the 20th Century” – the exhibition is designed in an attempt to create associations with a historical walk in the old Bauska over the course of a century, as a street motif runs through it. Thus, anyone staying in the Old Town of Bauska, visiting the museum, which is located right in the centre of the Old Town, has the opportunity to travel back many decades.
• “The Lost People of Bauska”– The exhibition tells the story of the national minorities that once lived in Bauska – Germans, Jews and “Russians”.
• “Peasants’ Room Furniture and Household Objects of the 19th Century”– The exhibition together with the works of the masters of the Folk Applied Art Studio “Bauska” is on display in the studio’s exhibition hall.
• Late 19th – early 21st century exhibition of dolls and toys “Time to Play” – a permanent exhibition of children’s dolls, toys and household objects. This exhibition takes you back to your childhood, brings you together with “old friends” and teaches you a lot about the world of dolls and toys. The exhibition is based on the private collection of the artist Tamara Čudnovská.

PRICES

• Entrance fees to the museum

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• pupils, students – € 0,70, adults – € 1,40

• Guide services in the museum (in Latvian and Russian)- € 7,00
• Guide services in Bauska and outside Bauska (in Latvian and Russian):
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• for a group of up to 10 people – € 2,00 (per person)

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• for a group of 11 to 20 people – € 1,50 (per person)

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• for a group of 21 or more people – € 1,00 (per person)

TOURS PROGRAMMES

“Adventure in Bauska 20.In the 20th century.”

– Bauska at the beginning of the 20th century with a German butcher who also speaks Latvian and Russian: Dreņģers grocery and wine shop, tea from the patvār, water pretzels, recipes from old cookbooks, photography in Pļavenieks photo salon, street musician.

– Bauska 1920s-1930s. Baranovskis’ blacksmith’s workshop – how to shoe a horse, Jučins’ hairdresser’s – how to do cold and hot perms, Vīksne’s bookshop selling books, written and small goods, where you can buy what you can’t find elsewhere even with brilliants, Gobiņš and Kreicbergs’ knitting shop – what a knitter knows and how to iron with a knitting iron, popular tunes of the 1920s and 1930s.

– Bauska in the 1920s-1930s with a former city girl who married into the countryside. Bauska in the 20th century. 1940s-1970s with a Soviet functionary: what damage the war did to Bauska, what the Chekists did in Bauska in the late 1940s and early 1950s, a two-room apartment in the new Bauska, a tape recorder playing popular songs of the 1960s-1970s, what schoolchildren looked like in the 1970s, singing Soviet songs accompanied by an accordion, then “Moscow Clear” and a toast “To Soviet power!” with snacks (Водка Московская особая “За власти советтов!” и закусочка).

Price: for a group of up to 10 people – € 30,00
for a group of up to 20 people – € 45,00, for each additional person – € 2,00
If the group is larger than 30 people, it is divided into two groups.

“Time to Play!”

An attractive educational programme for groups of children and adults of different ages, with children’s games and other games in the toy exhibition. Prices: € 1.50/person

Please book in advance.

Photos from the Bauska TIC archive