Dauderi
Dauderi is a museum in Riga, housed in a German neo-Renaissance villa surrounded by a landscape park. Small towers, columns, a pond and artificial castle ruins shape the grounds around the building. Fritz Seuberlich designed the villa for the Bingner family, owners of the Waldschlößchen brewery.
The residence rose between 1897 and 1898 on the brewery grounds, then became Kārlis Ulmanis’s summer home in 1937. During the Soviet period, the building housed an agitation centre, Riga’s 39th kindergarten and Ministry of Food Industry events. Restoration followed Gaidis Graudiņš’s decision to donate his exile collection, and the museum opened in 1990. Since 2010, it has formed part of the National History Museum of Latvia.
Inside, collections bring together coins, medals, military uniforms, civic chains of office, folk costumes, artworks and books. Preserved rooms show the Bingner family’s living quarters, while Ulmanis’s study recalls the villa’s presidential chapter. The park’s artificial ruins leave a particularly memorable trace of this former brewery estate.
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