MUSEUM OF HISTORY OF LATVIA, DEPARTMENT OF ETHNOGRAPHY

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Date of creation: 1869.

Research

Regions: historic and ethnographic regions of Latvia. Methods/objectives: collection of instruments, documentation. Exibitions. Researchers: Velta Rozenberga (directriss of the Ethnography department); guest researcher I. Priedite from the Ethnographic Open-air museum.

Collections

Musical instruments: 28 idiophones, 3 membranophones, 118 chordophones, 68 aerophones.

Photo archives: in the collection of the Committee of Historical Monuments (Piemineklu valde) there are about 30 photos of musicians and instruments. Regions: Latvia. Classification/documentation: desciption and indexation of items.

Publications prepared by the institution

Books, catalogues.

Education

Courses: for the students of ethnography and occasional.

Diffusion

Radio/TV: occasional.