Description
Liepaja Portside warehouse building is one of the oldest Open-Air Museum exhibit buildings. The building consists of three floors, approximately 500m2. Now the warehouse is in relatively poor condition, and the interior is not accessible to visitors. The project “Restoration of the Latvian Ethnographic Open-Air Museum’s Port Warehouse” aims to safeguard cultural heritage by preserving this building in the Latvian Ethnographic Open Air Museum and making it accessible to the public. As a result of the project the building will provide access to at least 105 000 visitors a year. After the project implementation this unique renovated building will be added to the collection of the Latvian Ethnographic Open-Air Museum. The conditions for preservation and exhibition conditions will be improved, and for the first time the building will be available to the general public who will be able to enjoy the newly created exhibition – open access repository.
Summary of project results
Liepaja Portside warehouse building is one of the oldest Open-Air Museum exhibit buildings.The building consists of three floors, approximately 500m2. Liepaja’s harbor warehouse (Also known as the Swallow's Warehouse) was built in 1697, on the side of Liepaja’s harbor canal. The museum set it up in 1940.The warehouse was in relatively poor condition, and the interior was not accessible to visitors. The project “Restoration of the Latvian Ethnographic Open-Air Museum’s Port Warehouse” objective was to protect and save cultural heritage by preserving this building in the Latvian Ethnographic Open Air Museum and making it accessible to the public. A renewed, preserved and publicly available wooden cultural heritage site was made accessible to the public and its collection of the restored chests which was restored in the project has been made accessible to the public. In addition to these project results, the experience exchange visit to Norwegian Hordaland Museum Center was ensured for the museums specialists and the International Conference " Wooden Architectural Heritage Preservation” was held in the project in September 2016. The additional results within the project are the restored 141 objects (chests and closets) and 6 renewed anchors which are available to the public as the exhibit of the warehouse. The restored building will provide access to at least 105 000 visitors a year. After the project implementation this unique renovated building has been added to the collection of the Latvian Ethnographic Open-Air Museum.
Summary of bilateral results