Services

Entrance tickets

* Pre-school children are not allowed to go up to the tower, children up to 12 are allowed only together with parents.

Excursion with museum’s guide (1 hour)

* Thematic tours must be booked in advance!

Gift cards

Free entrance for:

• preschool children;
•  free for Jelgava city municipality school students;
• students of Jelgava Technical School and Jelgava Music High School;
• students of art schools, the Art Academy of Latvia and the Latvian Academy of Culture ;
• accredited media representatives (journalists, photographers, etc.);
• Employees of Latvian museums with a certificate or ICOM (International Council of Museums) card;
• members of the Artist Union of Latvia;
• group leaders (if the group has 10 or more persons);
• disabled people under 18 with accompanying person;
• persons with disability group I and with accompanying person;
• persons with disability group II and III;
• owners of The State Blood Donor centre privilege card;
• guides with certificate from Jelgava Tourism Information Centre.

50% discount for persons with:

• ISIC – International Student Identity Card;
• ITIC – International Teacher Identity Card;
• Valid student ID card from Republic of Latvia universities;
• pensioners with ID cards.

Entrance to Ģ. Eliass History and Art Museum of Jelgava and Ādolfs Alunāns Memorial Museum is for free on 18th of May, Internation Museum Day, and during European Night of Museums.

Guest delegations of Jelgava city municipality are exempt from the entrance fee.

Entrance to exhibition openings is for free.

Museum educational programs are free for Jelgava city municipality school students.

Lectures

Educational programs

Museum hall rental

Events outside museum

Consultation

Use of the museum collection

Museum’s educational programs are for free to Jelgava city municipality school students.

Rental of traveling exhibitions prepared by the history department of the museum to institutions of  Jelgava city municipality is for free.

Rent of museum’s halls to institutions of Jelgava city municipality is free.

Institutions of Jelgava city municipality and accredited Latvian museums can use museum’s collection for free.

Museum’s educational programs, prepared by the museum’s educator, are a fun and interesting way for children and teenagers to be introduced to the museum, its work and meaning in society, exposition, etc.

• “Traveling in time”

2019 educational program is prepared for students from 1st to 9th grade. Lesson is 40 to 60 min long. During lesson participants will strengthen knowledge about Jelgava’s history, important events and persons with the help of museum’s objects.

• “First visit to the museum”

Educational program is prepared for from pre-school children to 3rd grade. Program’s aim is to introduce participants to museum and its surroundings, archaic object of ethnography un craft tools. The program aims to introduce participants to the museum and its surroundings, old objects of ethnography un craft tools. Participants are introduced to the museum and guess objects hidden in the “Black box” followed by a discussion of the purpose of museums and why keeping old and not so old objects is necessary.

• Educational program cycle “Ģederts Eliass’ work”

“Story of a painting” is prepared for pre-school children to the 6th-grade students. Participants, while watching paintings of Ģederts Eliass, fill out assignments, create new names for paintings and draw copies.
“Seasons in Ģederts Eliass’ artwork” is prepared for pre-school children to the 6th-grade students. During the lesson participants go through the exposition and learn about artist Ģederts Eliass’ life, afterward watching nature outside the window and comparing it to paintings, doing assignments, and will work with colourful threads.

• “Burtu karnevāls” 

Pedagoģiskā programma izveidota 2020. gadā un paredzēta pirmsskolas un sākumskolas vecuma bērniem. Vārdi veidojas no burtiņiem un katrs muzeja priekšmets sākas ar savu burtiņu. Nodarbības laikā, spēlējot burtu rotaļas, nodarbības dalībnieki iepazīstas ar ekspozīciju telpās esošajiem priekšmetiem un to nosaukumiem. Rotaļājoties un meklējot burtiņus, bērni bagātinās savu vārdu krājumu, pilnveidos klausīšanās un uzmanības prasmes.

• “Senie iedzīvotāji Lielupes krastā” 

Programma izstrādāta 2020. gadā un ir sagatavota atjaunotās ekspozīcijas “Aizvēsture un viduslaiki Zemgalē” ietvaros. Nodarbība paredzēta pirmsskolēniem un 1. līdz 9. klašu audzēkņiem. Nodarbības mērķis ir sniegt jaunas zināšanas par cilvēku dzīvi senatnē ar eksponēto artefaktu starpniecību un ļaut izbaudīt ekspozīcijas atmosfēru. Audzēkņi papildinās zināšanas par to, kā tiek iegūta informācija par cilvēku dzīvi senatnē un veiks uzdevumus “arheologa laboratorijā”.

Pedagoģiskā nodarbība notiek muzeja telpās, maksa vienam skolēnam/audzēknim ir €1,00, bet pieaugušajam – €1,50. Pirmsskolas vecuma bērniem un Jelgavas pilsētas pašvaldības izglītības iestāžu skolēniem un audzēkņiem ieeja muzejā un pedagoģiskās programmas apmeklējums ir bez maksas.

!! Izvēlētā nodarbība iepriekš jāsaskaņo, zvanot pa tālruni 63080150 (muzeja pedagoģe Teika Putna) vai 63023383.

Museum’s employees have prepared various lectures about Jelgava city and its surrounding area. Lectures can be presented at the Museum or at any location.

Gints Putiķis, Deputy Director of Research

• Story of Jelgava’s Bearslayers
• An example of Jelgava’s traffic infrastructure. Jelgava’s railroad through time (1868 – 1940)

Teika Putna, Museum Educator

• History of Jelgava’s schools. Architecture of P. Bendrups’ School.
• Establishment of the State. Latvian War of Independence

Gita Grase, Museum’s Director

• Wooden Architecture of Jelgava

Marija Kaupere, Deputy Director of Public Relations

• Eliass family in Latvian culture

Aldis Barševskis, Head of the Collections

• Museum’s acquisitions – an important contribution to researching Jelgava’s history in the context of the State.
• Latvian War of Independence in Jelgava.

Saiva Kuple, Restorer

• The important role of the restorer in the work of the Museum.

Books are for purchase on the internet. For more information write to muzejs@muzejs.jelgava.lv.