Seminar for Teachers on Museum Offerings

On Thursday, 12 March, at 12:00, the Jānis Akuraters Museum and the Ojārs Vācietis Museum of the Association of Memorial Museums are offering an informational seminar on the Zoom platform, “Two Poets’ Museums Almost Opposite Each Other,” where those interested will be able to learn about current developments at both museums, their educational programme offerings and upcoming events.

At the seminar, museum specialists will present current developments at the museums and in their educational activities. The museums’ offerings cover not only topics related to Latvian literature, but also linguistic, historical and cultural-historical contexts.

The seminar programme includes a presentation on two poets’ museums and creative personalities of the 20th century, an overview of the events and plans for Jānis Akuraters’ 150th anniversary year, as well as updates to the Ojārs Vācietis Museum’s exhibition.

Seminar programme:

• Two poets’ museums almost opposite each other. A “short story” about a creative personality of the 20th century.
• Jānis Akuraters’ 150th anniversary year—events and plans.
• New features in the Ojārs Vācietis Museum’s exhibition.
• Educational activities at the Jānis Akuraters Museum: “The Literary Harmony of Our Class” and “Meeting Other Languages—Magic and Challenge”.
• The educational activity “Ojārs Vācietis’ Poetry Portfolio” at the Ojārs Vācietis Museum.
• New educational activities at the Jānis Akuraters Museum: “A Poet’s Portrait” and “Let’s Write the Manifesto ‘The Motifs of Our Art’!”
• Events at the museums:
  • On International Personality Museums Day, 18 April—the museum initiative “The Unfound and the Found. The Known and the Unknown”.
  • The international initiative “European Museum Night” on 23 May. The theme of Museum Night in Latvia is “The Adventures of an Object”.
• Short film “To Hear the Cuckoo’s Voice” (Director: Aldis Šēnbergs; 11 min; 2026).
• Short film “The Cherry Tree” (Directors: Aldis Šēnbergs and Ināra Čakste; 12 min; 2025).

The seminar’s stories and messages will be shared by Maira Valtere, head of the Jānis Akuraters Museum; Ieva Ķīse, head of the Ojārs Vācietis Museum; poet and Jānis Akuraters Museum specialist Aivars Eipurs; and poet, director and Ojārs Vācietis Museum specialist Dace Zālīte.

The seminar is scheduled to take place on the ZOOM platform from 12:00 to 13:30. Latvian language and literature teachers, cultural history teachers, and coordinators of the “Latvian School Bag” programme are especially welcome to attend.