Dzērbenes manor

The manor built in the classical style was  several times demolished during its life span. In the end of the 19th century, a square neogothic tower was built as an extension. The manor is surrounded by a park with seven cascading ponds.

The Dzērbenes manor has existed in its current form for only one and a half century. At that time, towers of various forms became the most popular technique for modernisation of manors. By the end of the 20th century, building towers in Latvia was viral. Paul Max Bertschy /Pauls Makss Berči/ can be named as an architect of this modernisation as he is known as the author of a project built near the Auļu manor. 

Jete Užane memorial room

Jete’s /Jete/ room with 1,500 pearls on the ceiling is a symbolic story of some mittens that the traditional arts master made in her life. Most of her mittens that “sing, cry, laugh” about her life spent in a wheelchair are kept by Latvian museums and the Cimdu Ceļš Fund.

Some of the exposition items were presented by people from their personal assets – amiable family, friends, good people from nearest and farther surroundings, even from the US and Canada.

When visiting Jete’s /Jete/ room, you will see her mittens, small dolls devoted to various literary characters, very small mittens, works of winners of mitten contest devoted to Jete /Jete/ and a wonderful gallery of photographer Gunārs Janaitis’s /Gunārs Janaitis/ photos taken over the entire Jete’s /Jete/ life. The walls are covered in Jete’s /Jete/ phrases and ideas that reflect her wisdom cradled in her pain, despair and pleasures.

The exposition can be ovserved on working days or upon reservation: +371 29408315