Tukums Museum - a Live Museum in Tourism

The Tukums Museum was established on 30 December 1935 as Latvia's first art museum situated outside of Rīga. Today the Tukums Museum is made up of seven different museums focused on art, history, cultural history, ethnography and folklore.

The Castle Tower is the oldest building in Tukums and now as the Town History Museum it offers exhibitions and participation in programmes such as "Life in a Livonian Order Castle" or"Saturday in a Castle Tower". The last one is a special programme for Saturdays when every visitor can dress up in medieval dress and feel the medieval life, learn about the medieval rules, the best practice of medicine, make their own amulet, etc. The Durbe Manor House is a pearl of Classicist architecture in Kurzeme. The museum in the manor offers exhibitions, theatrical excursions and events, concerts of classical music, and special cultural and historical educational programmes called "Time Travel". The participants can learn in detail about the major events in the history of the manor and the region such as December 1905 uprising, which became known as the Tukums War, or the 1^st Song Festival of the Tukums District in 1928.

The base of the Art Museum is the art collection of the painter Leonīds Āriņš (1907-1991) known as the Golden Collection of Latvian painting. For the past 10 years the museum has offered its programme "Let's Copy Some Paintings" for children and adults. The Art Gallery „Durvis" ("Doors") is a space established for the creative expressions of contemporary artists. It is situated in an 18th century building, and the interior has a unique combination of layers of history and works of modern art. The Weaver's Workshop is a place for creative people. Perhaps some travellers will see for the first time, how a treads turns into a fabric. The Džūkste Fairy Tale Museum is devoted to the fairy tales of Džūkste vicinity and to Ansis Lerhis-Puškaitis, who collected fairytales.The Pastariņš Museum is a museum for children, who want to get busy with games, bread baking, butter churning and other countryside activities.