Sarkaņi
Madona Museum ethnographic and household objects repository
Kalna iela 2, Sarkaņi, Sarkaņu pagasts, Madonas novads
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The object is a structural unit of the Madona Museum of Regional History and Art.

OFFER
* Guided tour of the museum’s repositories:

* Repository of craft tools. Here are exhibited tools, appliances and products of the blacksmith, carpenter, shoemaker, potter, tinsmith, fibre and leather worker.
* Repository of household objects. Alongside tools for working the land and harvesting, there are pestles, abras, sieves, cookers, butter churns and other cooking utensils. There is a wide range of baking and dairy items.
* Measures and containers. The collection displays containers (grain pots, tepees, baskets, cibas, barrels, chests) made of various materials (kriyas, flints, wicker, roots, wood, straw, reeds, boards, etc.).
* The Furniture Repository. A diverse collection of chairs, beds, tables, wardrobes and their crowns, shelves.
* Living rooms of the 19th/20th centuries. turn – 20th century. Mid-19th century. The furnishings are characteristic of the period and include a variety of items necessary for living: crockery, printed matter, textiles.
* The Reds – cultural workers. This is a story about Latvian cultural personalities (actress Olga Dreģi, composer Valdis Breģi, writer Viktors Eglītis, musicologist Jēkabs Vītoliņš, professor of medicine, founder of Latvian paediatric surgery Aleksandrs Bieziņš) who were born in Sarkani and studied at the Sarkani school.

PRICE
* for individual visitors – free of charge;
* for adult groups – 5 EUR per group;
* for school groups – 3 EUR per group.

Additional offer
* In the adjacent buildings you can visit – a crafts school and a library.
* A place of rest.

Photos from the archive of Madona TIC.