Museum news

May 1, 2010!  A whole year behind us!

Our little planet Earth has made a full rotation around the Sun again, this time bringing the first anniversary of the Sun Museum as well!

We are very happy for this first year, which has been full of adventures, events and fulfilled ideas. We have welcomed local people and many from neighboring countries as well just like interesting people from very exotic faraway places. We have derived great pleasure and positive emotions from all of you just like our visitors have drawn an inspiration from our museum and it’s sunlight!

We can see the growth of museum in the past year and what is more important – its name has spread all over the world just like happiness and warmth radiated by our visitors.

Our guest book, which is full now, tells a lot about many interesting moments, feelings and joy as well. It reveals the fact that we have been able to bring so many warm moments and emotions, which, in return, gives some good and strong motivation for us to work further. For the Sun inspires, its light shows the right direction, it warms and gives the power to stand in front of new challenges, fulfil ideas and dreams. The Sun always shines somewhere!

Thank you so much for being with us during this surprising year! Thanks to all of you, we have been able to keep this museum alive and to look even further by setting new perspectives for the nearest future.

We wish you a joyful and astonishing summer time!

Fill your hearts with sunlight!

May 3, 2010, Rātslaukums, Riga

A Day of the Sun in Riga

In honour of 20th anniversary of the declaration of independence of Latvia as well as 1st founding anniversary of the Sun Museum, eveyone is invited to the sunny event at Rātslukums - A Day of the Sun in Riga.

Celebrating this special day we will honour the brightest star above the sky - the Sun.

The longest „Sun Street” in the world made of hundreds of sun drawings by our visitors will be set up during this colourful and sunny event. Every visitor will have a chance to draw a sun on a special paper thus making the whole street even longer.

Opening of the exhibition „Sun in Riga`s architecture„ will take place at Sun Museum during event. Many high-quality photos will be displayed showing various buildings in Riga with the Sun and it`s elements in facades.

Lectures and discussions about the Sun will also be held and supervised by astronomer Mārtiņš Gills and Latvian Society of Astronomy. All astronomy fans and coterie are welcome to observe the Sun through the telescope guided by StarSpace „Sun observatory„.

And of course many musical and dance bands are going to perform during this event to make everyone happy, encouraging visitors to dance, play and sing, do some quizes and try various interesting workshops to make this day even more sunny.

Run in and find your sunspot!

Programme :

13:00 Opening of event at Rātslaukums:

• Opening of the „Sun Street”;
• Opening of the exhibition "Sun in Riga`s architecture" at Sun Museum (exhibition for free all day long during event)

Activities at Rātslaukums :

14.00 – 17.00

• Lectures and discussions about the Sun by astronomer Mārtiņš Gills and Latvian Society of Astronomy
• A quiz „What do you know about the Sun ?” (gifts from the Sun Museum)
• Observing the Sun through the telescope – guided by StarSpace Sun observatory. Supervisor - Arnis Ginters
• Sun Museum`s workshop (painting the plaster sun decors)
• Ceramic workshop by Leontīns Cīrulis (modelling the sun decor from clay)
• Creative workshop „Garlaika Dullenis„ (composing the sun decors from various stuff)
• A quiz –„How many suns are there on the „Sun Street„ ?” (sunny gift for winner)
• A quiz „What do you know about the Sun Museum?” (gifts from the Sun Museum)
• Around Rātslaukums - the game „Jump of sun-hares„ (sunny gift for winner)

Concert at Rātslaukums 14.00 – 17.00

Participants :

• Dance band „Saule”
• Folk-dance band „Saulīte”
• Quintet of Strazdu muiža
• Riga French lyceum, dance band „Auseklītis”
• Fashion theater by Ginta Traine – theatrical performance „Playful Sun”
• Ensemble „Klaidonis”
• Guitar solo performance by Cat from Japan (Uģis Kagainis)

Folk music chapel „Silva” are going to perform in the meantime during event, playing cheerful music and welcoming all visitors to dance and to play various games.

Closing of event 17.00 – 18.00

• A Sun Pie from Sun Museum for visitors
• Measuring the length of the „Sun Street”

A Day of the Sun is organized by : Sun Museum and Riga Dome

Everyone is kindly welcome!

The Sun Museum has been invited to take a part in „Comenius ” project

The primary goal of „Comenius” project is to raise a quality of education programs and strengthen European dimension by supporting international collaboration between schools and promoting professional development of pedagogues. It promotes multi language studies as well as intercultural education.

The Sun Museum has been invited to participate in European Union Lifelong education program due to a Riga Secondary school 9 and „Comenius” project „Museums – education and modern society” during which a collaboration is being made with many schools from Greece, England, Italy and Germany.

The purpose of this project is to popularize an importance of museums in school education and to create a method by which visitation of museums becomes an interesting and exciting event for alumni.

The final product of this project is DVD and brochure which includes information about one museum at least from every country (chosen by students) in order to promote intercultural education and introduce the particular museum in other countries.

The Sun Museum in Riga has been chosen to be as one of them by one of the students from Riga Secondary School 9.

Already accomplished:

First presentation about the Sun Museum at Greenwich in London, England during a tour from March 16 till March 21, 2010

Students and pedagogues from respective countries were introduced with museum and its ideas.

Oncoming:

In October students and pedagogues from all respective countries will be welcomed to Latvia and invited to the Sun Museum

More about "Comenius" project you can read here:

www.apa.lv

comenius-museums.blogspot.com

January 20, 2010

Opening of the exhibition "The Sun and the Light" at Sun Museum

This visual tale about the Sun and it`s symbology had been created by youth students from Music and Art school "Pārdaugavas mūzikas un mākslas skola" during the period from October - December 2009.

All their inspiration for this work came during visitation of the Sun Museum and seeing the bountiful sun collection!

Exhibition shows multiform, mysterious and magical improvisations of the sun image, it is about light, sun radiance and power.

The Sun is depicted in graphic art drawings, paper reliefs and plastiline clay.

"The Sun and the Light"
will be open from January 20 till March 20, 2010 *

Everyone is kindly welcome!

14 August 2009 at 17:00

The Sun Museum invites everyone to the event: "Total Solar eclipse - theme for collection"

In programme:

• What is a Solar eclipse?
• What is special about this spectacular natural phenomena?
• Total Solar eclipse, facts and discussion evening

You will hear and see exciting stories, interesting facts and visual experiences about the Solar eclipse of 22 July 2009 expedition and many previous ones which were observed in many countries.

Spokesmen will be people who have observed the total and also partial Solar eclipses many times. Now they are willing to share their experiences with us and you!

They are collectors of the Solar eclipses:

Kristīne Adgere

Mārtiņš Gills

Juris Kauliņš

Gatis Šķila

Emīls Veide

Agnese Zalcmane

22 June 2009

Exhibition of distaffs at Sun Museum!

Shortly before the summer solstice there was an opening of the exhibition "Distaffs in Latvia and all over the world" at Sun Museum.

Distaffs* that you are about to see are all hand-made and it is the only collection of that kind in the world! The author of this unique collection of distaffs is Valdis Orlovs, man living in the city of Tukums, Latvia. There have been displayed more than two hundred distaffs in the Sun Museum with many different sun signs and symbols depicted on them. Although there has never been a real sun god in latvian mythology, ancient latvians understood the Sun as a female, a mother, symbol of family and life and had various different sun signs represented on many other items like ceramics, clothing and wooden objects. In old times there was an interesting tradition among latvian people - if a man wanted to marry his woman he made a distaff as a sign of proposal and wedding gift for her. And since the spinning-wheel was known to many cultures we have put also distaffs coming from many other parts of the world so that you will se how different they can be.

19.06.2009. at 18:00 PM

Anda Ābele and Riga`s Folklore group “ Laiva ” invites everyone to the Sun Museum to greet summer solstice and to learn folk songs of the festival `Jāņi`

Nāc, Jānīti, ziedainīti, pušķodams cepurīti:
Pītin pīta, sūtin šūta, tā bij’ Jāņa cepurīte.
Brauc, Saulīte, kalniņā zeltītiem kumeļiem;
Kad bij' kalna galiņā, tad skanēja, tad dimdēja.

05.06.2009. at 19:00 PM

Opening of photo exhibition “In quest of the Sun” by photographer Marģers Martinsons at Sun Museum

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