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The Turaida Museum Reserve
Visitors Centre
You will start your visit to the Turaida Museum Reserve at
its visitors centre. You can buy a ticket to the reserve and
obtain information about the diverse offer of the museum
reserve there – exhibitions, historical buildings, the environ-
ment, tours and programmes offered by museum specialists,
as well as tourism opportunities in the nearby area. You can
also buy maps, brochures and scientific studies. Free Inter-
net services are available so that you can send digital post-
cards to your friends and loved ones, featuring views from
the museum reserve.
A virtual exhibition, “Welcome to the Turaida Museum
Reserve,” will offer you a look at the museum’s exhibitions,
buildings, environment and events throughout the year.
A separate stand contains free information about local
tourist offers. There is a vending machine with coffee and
snacks for the convenience of visitors.
There is a cafeteria in the basement of the building. The
interior is decorated with photographs from the museum
reserve, “People of the Turaida Estate and Parish in the First
Half of the 20th Century.” Here you will see the people of
Turaida engaged in various activities that were typical of life
in the countryside.
The visitors centre is open whenever the museum re-
serve is open, and specialists will be delighted to answer
your questions at the centre, or via a phone call or E-mail.
After you pass through the visitors centre, you will enter the
territory of the Turaida Museum Reserve, and there you will
begin an exciting tour through the history of Turaida over
the course of 1,000 years.
The underground granary of the estate
This building was erected in the latter half of the 19th century and has been divided into three segments from the very
beginning – each with its own entryway. Under the granary is a stone cellar made of field rocks. The building was used
to store grain and other foodstuffs.
After agrarian reforms in 1920, the underground granary belonged to Alexander Stahl von Holstein until 1939.
The agricultural kolkhoz “Pamats” used the building as a warehouse in the 1950s, and local residents used it for various
related needs after that. After restoration in 2009, the building became home to the visitors centre, cashier’s office and
cafe of the Turaida Museum Reserve.
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