ABOUT THE MUSEUM

The main aim of the museum is to collect, preserve, study and promote the natural, spiritual and material cultural values of the Madona region, to encourage their use for public education and development, to raise the self-confidence and awareness of local people about the history of the Madona region and its special contribution to the development of national culture, to promote the use of the region’s resources in the tourism industry and for museum purposes

MUSEUMPEDAGOGICAL PROGRAMMES

I, for the first time in a museum.

The aim is to get acquainted with the museum and its surroundings, ancient ethnographic objects and handicraft tools. The lesson is related to the social studies topic “Me and my time”.
Content of the lesson – participants get acquainted with the museum, discuss what a museum is. Guessing the objects hidden in the “black box” and then discussing the meaning of these ancient and not so ancient objects. The class is divided into 4 or 5 groups and groups the objects (wooden objects, shoes, etc.) and the participants arrange their first exhibition in the museum.
Ages – pre-school and 1st-3rd graders

The Little Archaeologist

Aim – to acquaint the students with the work of an archaeologist, the work of a museum restorer in a museum. To get to know practically the formation of the “cultural layer”.
Content of the lesson – Participants have the opportunity to take part in improvised archaeological excavations, cleaning and identification of artefacts. Afterwards, a timeline is created from the artifacts found.
Age – 3rd-6th graders. The theme of the lesson is related to the 6th grade history topic “Prehistory. Ancient people’s way of life, first occupations, tools.“

Get to know Latvia

Aim – to build and raise national self-confidence through educational and attractive board games. To introduce important events and personalities in Latvia’s history through games.
Content of the lesson – To get to know Latvia through various board games about Latvian historical and cultural monuments, about notable personalities who lived in Latvia at different times, about the formation of Latvia as an independent state, etc.
Age: preschool children, pupils in grades 1-4, pupils in grades 5-9.

One time only-graphics, monotype

Aim: to encourage creativity through a variety of printmaking techniques.
Lesson content: participants get to know the monotype technique practically by creating their own work. The lesson can be adapted to the specific exhibition on display at the museum at the time.
Ages – students of all ages.
Duration – 1 lesson

From the scale, to…

Aim – to introduce participants to the ancient light objects in the museum’s collection and their use 100 …, 80 …, 50 … years ago. To introduce the lamps assembled in the Madona factory “Darba Spars”.
Content of the lesson – discussion on the use of ancient light objects. Possibility to try reading and writing by the scale light, by the kerosene lamp, as well as drawing ancient light objects.
Age – preschool children, 1. – 4.

Folk costumes of Madona region

Aim – to introduce the traditions of making and wearing folk costumes in Madona region and their use today
Age – participants of different ages.

What was written 100, 70, 50 years ago

Aim – to stimulate interest in the history of writing instruments in the age of new technologies.
Age – pre-school children, 1-4 year-olds, 1.

What is a log house

Aim – to introduce the ancient ways of building
Content of the lesson – participants can try their hand at building ancient wooden houses using a wooden constructor from Varis Toys.
Age – preschoolers, 1-4 year-olds, 1-4 year-olds.

Build your own Madona

Aim – to introduce the development of town building and how the town of Madona was built, allowing the participants to take part in the construction of the town themselves, according to the town building of each period of time.
Lesson content – Participants have to “build a town”, listening to the story of the history of Madona by looking at the ancient town plan and the photos of the buildings in the museum’s collection. Once the city is “built”, everyone has the opportunity to trace how Madona grew, at what point a particular plot of land was developed and what were the conditions that shaped the city as we see it today.
Ages – 1st – 4th, 5th – 9th, 10th – 12th graders. The lesson is tailored to the specific age group.

Duration – one lesson.
Book in advance at 64823844, 26102225:
Zane GRINVALDE, Danute VĒZE

PRICES

Permanent exhibition “Archaeology of the region”

• adults € 0,50;
• students € 0,30;
• schoolchildren € 0,20.

Entrance ticket for a group to the museum-educational programme

– for students of comprehensive schools and pre-schools of Madona region – € 5.00;
– for students of comprehensive schools and pre-schools outside the region – € 10.00.

Free admission

• for pre-school children,

for

• children of general education schools of Madona, Cesvaine, Ergli, Lubana and Varaklani districts, 1.-3.
• For students of art schools, boarding schools and orphanages of Madona, Cesvaine, Eagle, Lubana and Varakļānu regions
• For teachers of Madona, Cesvaine, Eagle, Lubana and Varakļānu regions accompanying groups of students.

Photos from the archives of the Madona Museum of Regional History and Art .