ABOUT THE MUSEUM

One of the most beautiful places in the Ergļi Parish of the Vidzeme Highlands is Braki. The Latvian classicist Rudolfs Blaumanis (1863 – 1908) lived and worked here. He was a master of novels and the founder of modern drama in Latvian literature.

R. Blaumanis Memorial Museum in Braki was founded on 10 May 1959. All the buildings have been restored and designed as they were during the writer’s lifetime.

Braki Farm consists of a complex of 8 buildings – a dwelling house, a barn, a granary with a guben, an outhouse and a mill, a horse stable, a grain granary, a barn with a squirrel house, a bathhouse and a small animal barn.

The Braki trails lead to the Lightning Stone, Edgar’s sculpture, the Hundred-soles Trail, Noliņš’ Apple Tree, the Monument Stone, Jāņkalniņi, Pirtsgravas spring.

OPENING

Permanent exhibition:

• “Braki” – the homestead of a farmer-rancher of Ergli parish in the 19th and 20th centuries. At the turn of the 19th and 19th century, the place where writer R. Blaumanis lived and worked.
• Exhibitions:

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• Poetry, drama and prose of R.Blaumanis,

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• “Braki” Museum in 50 years,

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• Blaumanis family tree,

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• The role of the horse in the life and work of R.Blaumanis,

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• Tiltiņš family devil collection.

Museum educational programmes:

Devil works and non-works

• Let’s look into the pages of the book “The Devils”!
• Let’s act out a devils’ theatre!
• Let’s transform ourselves into devils, dance and jump!
• Take photos at the devils’ stand.

Let’s play “In the Shadow of Death”!

• The making and prototypes of the novella “In the Shadow of Death”.
• Co-experiencing the events of a literary work.
• The characters of the novella and their fates.
• Readings of “In the Shadow of Death”.

Get to know “Brakes”!

• A story about R. Blaumanis and the Braki Museum.
• Get acquainted with the permanent exhibition in the museum buildings.
• Do various Braque tasks (worksheets, build a puzzle, find a museum object)!

Let’s sing Blaumani!

• The importance of music in the writer’s life.
• Make music and sing together.

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Gint, you don’t lie!

• An introduction to Ibsen’s play “Pier Gint”.
• R. Blaumanis and Ibsen’s work, comparison.
• Interactive exploration of the exhibition “Norwegian writer Ibsen – a guest of R. Blaumanis at the “Brakai” farm”.

Dinner in the family room “At the rock fire

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• R. Readings of Blaumann’s works.

PRICES

Entrance to the museum – free of charge Guide service: – group up to 10 people EUR 10.00 – group from 11 to 20 people EUR 20.00 – group from 21 to 30 people EUR 30.00 – group of 31 and more people EUR 40.00

ADDITIONAL SERVICES

– family feast in the Brakai family room, – gourmet Silmaču pancakes and Brakai porridge, – bonfire place.

Photos from the museum archives.