Project Description
OBJECTIVE:
To research, preserve and pass on to the next generation the traditional skills of the inhabitants of the Dvina/Daugava Valley region through special museum education programmes, workshops, exhibitions and innovative forms of education through live communication with craftsmen, open-air ethnographic camps and craftsmen's events
TARGET GROUPS AND FINAL BENEFICIARIES:
- Culture and museum institutions
- Heritage professionals, craftsmen
- Tourists, local inhabitants
- Naujene Local History Museum
INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES:
- Purchase of more than 100 unique exhibits for the museum collection, such as ethnographic woollen gloves, socks and belts, traditional ceramic tableware, woven baskets and blankets and carpentry items to represent traditional local crafts in Naujene Local History Museum in Augsdaugava County, Latvia
- Creation of a new museum exhibition "Handicraft traditions in Daugava river valley territory" and purchase of equipment for the museum's educational programme
SOFT ACTIVITIES:
- Organization of ethnographic camps and research expeditions for cultural workers to preserve intangible local heritage and traditional skills in Augsdaugava County and a seminar with experts on the results of research on material and non-material cultural heritage
- Development of a book on local heritage and traditional skills “New Life of Old Crafts”
- Elaboration of a new museum educational programme and workbook “Traditional craft skills in Latgale farmstead” for children and youth and organisation of thematic master classes in museum and schools
- Organising master classes and craftsman events “Craftsman University” and “Craftsman Town” for anyone interested in learning ancient crafts directly from local artisans
- Promotion of the new museum offer and local heritage and traditional crafts in the river Daugava valley through regional mass media, newsletters, social media and video materials
