Editions and publications
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In 2024, the museum published the catalogue “Mūzikas instrumenti un to būvētāji Latvijā”. This is the first publication to compile and celebrate a nationally significant part of Latvian heritage that has long remained under-recognised. The catalogue was created through close collaboration between the author – musician, music historian, educator, and founder and long-time head of the museum’s Music Department, Elmārs Zemovičs – and the museum’s specialists. It features objects from the museum’s musical instrument collection, as well as instruments from private collections, churches, and other institutions. The catalogue “Musical Instruments and Their Makers in Latvia” is available for purchase at the museum’s reading room, 8 Pulka Street, Riga.
Our researchers share their findings through the museum’s digital magazine “Stāstnesis”.
They also publish in other scholarly platforms (for example, in the database www.literatura.lv created by the Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art of the University of Latvia, as well as in the scientific proceedings of the National History Museum of Latvia).
Iveta Ruskule
“The Musealisation of Veidenbaums.” Eduards Veidenbaums. Life and Works: Contexts and Reception, pp. 203–210. Riga: University of Latvia Academic Press, 2020. Book_10.22364edvei.pdf
Ilona Miezīte
“The Crossroads of Spiritual Quest in the Poetry of Aspazija and Fricis Bārda.” RTU Liepāja Proceedings: Current Issues in Literary and Cultural Research, 2025.
“Aspazija and Jelgava – A Lifelong Connection. Testimonies in the Latvian National Museum of Literature and Music.” Jelgava City Library: Aspazija and Friends of the Library Symposium.
Inguna Daukste-Silasproģe
“Ego-Documents in the Study of Creative Personality: An Insight into the Archive Materials of Olafs Stumbris.” 31st International Scientific Conference Dedicated to the 400th Anniversary of Liepāja: Current Issues in Literary and Cultural Research.
Ingus Barovskis
“The Trickster and Magical Salvation in Contemporary Spirituality: Representations of Certain Mythical and Magical Concepts.” The Diversity of the Dimension of Spirituality Today: An Interdisciplinary Perspective. Riga: Rīga Stradiņš University Press, 2025.
“The Poetics of Velga Krile’s Poetry and Personality.” Valkas Municipality Poetry Days: 80th Anniversary of the Poet Velga Krile.
Andrievs Alksnis
“Revitalization of Progressive Rock: Uģis Prauliņš and “Vecās Mājas” – Cultural Transition from the Late Soviet Era (1987–1994) and the Reunification (2023–present).” International Conference: “Postcolonial Situation in the Arts after the Collapse of the Soviet Union: Experience, Impact, Reassessment.”
“Revitalization of Progressive Rock: Uģis Prauliņš and “Vecās Mājas” – Cultural Transition from the Late Soviet Era (1987–1994) and the Reunification (2023–present).” Collected Papers of the VPP Project CERS, forthcoming in 2026.