The Museum Night
The Museum Night is an international event which Latvia also takes part in. It was initiated by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication. The goal of this campaign is to, with the use of democratic and unconventional methods, make the public pay more attention to the cultural heritage that can be found in museums. The Museum Night takes place on the Saturday that is the closest to the International Museum Day (19 May). Events of the campaign take place from 19:00 to 01:00.
Each year the Museum Night has a new motto. Latvia has been participating in the Museum Night since 2005.
Limbaži Museum has been taking part in the Museum Night campaign since 2006, and now it is one of the biggest events in Limbaži culture-wise.
Museum Night 2019
On 18 May 2019, the exhibition “A Gift to the City” was opened in the Limbaži Museum, which portrays a part of the gifts received by the Limbaži Museum during the period between 2014 and 2019. A total of 52406 items were in the museum’s holdings as of 1 May 2019.
During the last 5 years, the museum has obtained 3433 items, from which a small part has been bought: a total of 48 items.
Most of the new additions are photographs, documents, manuscripts and printed materials. The collections are updated with new furniture, tools, interior textiles, clothes, and other historical items.
