Pancake tasting
Pancake tasting with tea and coffee. Groups from 5 people.
- Total tour duration ~ up to 2 hours
- the guided excursion price EUR 13,00 per adult, EUR 10,00 per pupil.
Sweet buns Creative Workshop
Get to know the history of the water mill and the mechanisms of the water mill in operation – the road of a grain from sowing to flour and Sweet buns, see how groats and flour are made;
Use of vintage farming and household machinery and tools;
An educational creative workshop in making Sweet buns and tasting them with tea/coffee.
- Total tour duration ~ up to 2 hours
- Guided tour price EUR 13,00 per person, EUR 10,00 per pupil.
Rye bread baking
“Ausekļu dzirnavas” has become a part of the new culinary tourism offering “The Rye Road” - it invites everyone to the countryside to enjoy the taste and smell of freshly baked rye bread by a warm bread oven. Baking real rye bread in a bread oven. For groups of up to 12 persons.
Get to know the history of the water mill and the mechanisms of the water mill in operation – the road of a grain from sowing to flour and bread, see how groats and flour are made;
Use of vintage farming and household machinery and tools;
An educational creative workshop in making rye bread with your own hands and listening to bread-making stories (1 bread loaf/person), tea/coffee.
- Total tour duration ~ up to 2 hours
- guided tour price EUR 15,00 per person.
Groups of pupils
A chance to learn about the vintage farming and household objects, to learn their application, as well as to participate in the activities of grain milling and carpentry.
Guided lecture about the grain's path from sowing into the ground to loaf of bread and pies. A customized tour for both the smallest (from 4 years) and larger pupils.
An educational creative workshop in making pierogies (6 pierogies per person) and tasting them with tea or a tasting of the “Ausekļu dzirnavas” pancakes.
- Total tour duration with pierogies-making or pancake tasting ~ 1.5 to 2 hours
- guided tour price EUR 10,00 per person.
December - Winter offer
Get to know the history of the water mill and see the mechanisms of the water mill in operation (in warm winter months) – a road of grain from sowing to flour, sweet buns, bread, learn about rough grinding and how pearl barley and groat are made.
Use of vintage machinery and tools, molding a coin or a happiness token in the forge;
Creative Workshop at Bread House – making sweet buns or decorating gingerbread and tasting them with tea/coffee.
- Total tour duration ~ up to 2.5 hours
- guided tour price EUR 17,00 per person.
Canoe and kayaks rental
Rent a canoe or a kayaks to enjoy the nature of Latvia's southern border by boating in Zemgale's most beautiful river, Mēmele!
We provide canoes and their equipment (oars, life jackets, waterproof bags for the storage of personal items).
Boating routes are offered: in Mēmele, Iecava, Dienvidsusēja rivers.
- more information on www.kanoenoma.lv or by calling +371 25500883.
Important
# Due to the limited space of museum’s rooms and creative workshops, large groups are divided in sections of ~ 15-20 people each.
# Tours for the teacher accompanying a group are free of charge.
# Please make reservations for sCreative Workshps reservations at least 3 days before your scheduled tour date. Working hours available for excursions on weekdays are 9:00 - 16:00 or agreed upon individually.
# To sign up for excursions or for more info, please email: or call + 371 26396878; + 371 29197412.
Domestic animals/pets are not allowed on museum grounds and premises!