Project “Restoration of Kuldiga Old Town Hall and Improvement of Quality and Accessibility of its Culture Services” plans to preserve and renew elements of the building to improve environment of masters of applied art studio and accessibility of visitors as well as improvement of amount and quality of the present culture products by enriching culture supply and by fostering and diversifying development of economic activity forms, encouraging economic activities.
Kuldiga Old Town Hall building on 5 Baznicas street 5 is significant as an example of city building as well as a place for creating traditional cultural values and as a culture institution where culture products and services are produced.
The following activities have been foreseen within the project:
- project management
- restoration of Kuldiga old Town Hall
- building work supervision
- supervision of construction works by the author
- training of the local craftsmen and capacity building
- publicity
Read about the project (April 2016, articles in English and Latvian)
The project is being implemented by Kuldiga District Council in partnership with Akershus Restoration Centre in Drobak, Norway. The total implementation period of the project is 21 month – from July 2014 to March 2016. The total eligible costs of the project are EUR 562 400,94 out of which 250 000,00 is financing from European Economic Area (EEA) Financial Mechanism.