"Mengeli" - Memorial Museum of Jurjani family
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"Mengeli" - Memorial Museum of Jurjani family

Menģeļi, Ērgļu parish, Ērgļu district, LV-4840
+371 29431659
jurjanumuzejs@inbox.lv

Director: Ieva Vilnīte

Working hours:
   May 10th to November 1st – open on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 10.00 AM till 5.00 PM, on Fridays and Saturdays – 10.00 AM till 7.00 PM, on Mondays – closed;
   November 1st to May 10th – by prior phone reservation.

Offers:

  • Permanent expositions:
  • Brothers Jurjāni – the trailblazers of Latvian music
  • Granary – summer residence of the brothers and weaving workshop
  • Ethnographic farming tools from the 19th century


Exhibitions:

  • "Trails of the musicians "


Educational programs by the museum:

  • Let’s go weave!
  • Bind your own bath twigs!
  • Get to know wind instruments!


Recreation:

  • camping sites, campfire sites, bathing in a “black” steam bath, weaving with looms, entertaining musical wedding excursion with Līze of ”Mengeli”.