Events – Rundāle Palace

Baroque Music Concert “To Explain and To Feel. Affects and Elements”

Do emotions originate in the mind or in the heart? Can they be explained or experienced only? Composers of the Baroque period looked for answers in music, and we would like to invite you to experience it as well in the Baroque music concert “To Explain and To Feel. Affects and Elements” on 5 September. Artists...

Baroque Music Concert “The Perfect and the Transitory: Beauty and Time”

What makes a piece of art beautiful? Is perfection eternal, or is its value revealed by the time? Baroque music concert “The Perfect and the Transitory: Beauty and Time” dedicated to these questions will take place in the White Hall of the Rundāle Palace Museum on 21 November. During the Baroque period, beauty was not just...

Restoration of the Kettler Dynasty’s sarcophagi has been completed

On 3 July 2026, the dedication of the restored sarcophagi of Prince Sigismund Albert (1567–1569), Prince Gotthard (1568–1570), and Prince Georg (1572) who were children of Gotthard, Duke of Courland, and also the restored sarcophagus and the remains of Elisabeth Magdalena, Duchess of Courland, (1580–1649) took place at the Family Vault of the Dukes of Courland...

From Tulip Mania to Baroque Flower Arrangements – Exhibition “The Allure of Flowers”

On 24 May, celebration of the 290th anniversary of Rundāle Palace included the official opening of the exhibition “The Allure of Flowers” in the Museum, and it will be open for visitors until 31 October. The exhibition offers a multi-layered view of flowers and their depiction in art, revealing the arrival story of garden flowers nowadays popular...

An exhibition regarding the Salon of Duchess Dorothea in Ernst Welker’s caricatures has been opened in Mežotne Palace

An exhibition “Court of the Muses: Duchess Dorothea of Courland’s Salon at Löbichau Palace in Ernst Welker’s Caricatures” has been opened in Mežotne Palace, until 6 September providing visitors with the opportunity of learning more about the most striking aristocratic and intellectual salons of Europe in the 19th century. The exhibition is centred around the...

Expanded Exhibition of the Duke’s Library

On 15 February, the 302nd birthday of Duke Peter of Courland and Semigallia, a significantly expanded exhibition of the Duke’s library was opened at the Rundāle Palace Museum. At the end of last year, the museum acquired a large and historically significant sample of a private library of 17th–19th century aristocrats, consisting of several thousand...

The Garden Festival dedicated to the theme of “Dance in the Garden”

Rundāle Palace Museum invites to the annual Garden Festival As usual, on 28 June this year, coinciding with the most beautiful rose blossom season, we will celebrate the traditional Garden Festival in the French garden of Rundāle Palace. This year, the festival will be dedicated to the theme of “Dance in the Garden”. The festival programme...

Exhibition Gardens of Colour: From Giverny to Rundāle

The Rundāle Palace Museum’s conference centre is currently hosting an exhibition of works by Aleksejs Naumovs titled Gardens of Colour: From Giverny to Rundāle. Opened on 9 June, it will be on display until 31 August. The exhibition showcases Naumovs’ latest series of paintings of Europe’s gardens and parks. Among them is the historical French...

Exhibition “Imants Lancmanis: PAINTINGS”

To celebrate the 289th anniversary of Rundāle Palace, the Rundāle Palace Museum (RPM) presents a solo exhibition by Imants Lancmanis, a painter, art historian and long-time director of RPM. The exhibition Imants Lancmanis: PAINTINGS will be open until 31 August on the Palace’s ground floor, and it will also feature works from the RPM’s...

On 29 June 2024, we will celebrate the annual Garden Festival “Horses and Horsing around the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia”

We will be celebrating the popular Garden Festival in the French garden of Rundāle Palace on 29 June of this year which, as usual, coincides with the beautiful time of roses being in full bloom. The theme “Horses and Horsing around the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia” was chosen on purpose. The Rundāle Palace Museum...

Dancers will dance out the Duke’s preparation for the ball

Saturday, 16 December, will mark the beginning of a week-long cycle of evening events at the Rundāle Palace Museum – a light and sound show “Chandelier Ball in the Palace” which will be complemented by contemporary dance performances created by the choreographer Reinis Rešetins for four evenings. On 17, 19, 20, and 22 December, three shows with...

Digital catalogues of the exhibition “Tapestries in Bloom”

From 18 June to 17 September the exhibition “Tapestries in Bloom” from the collections of the French National Furniture Foundation was displayed in the Grand gallery and the Small gallery of Rundāle Palace. Now a digital catalogue of the exhibition has been published, available in three languages: Latvian, English and French. The exhibition featured 15 garden-themed...