Galleries & Museums

    Riga best museums

Riga boasts numerous museums, with the Latvian War Museum, the Occupation Museum, Maritimes museum Riga and Mentzendorff House among many other Riga museums deserving of attention. Riga’s museums form a stable and unwavering foundation for the city’s cultural life, and this particular aspect of the city’s culture is one that you can always count on. Museums and galleries offer you contacts with authentic witnesses to history, with pieces of fine art, with all kinds of interesting information.

The National History Museum of Latvia is the largest repository of Latvian material culture. The Museum’s permanent exposition of Latvian history reflects the history of Latvia until 1940. Separate exhibitions explore particular themes of Latvian history in more detail The Riga Motor Museum features more than 100 motor vehicles dating from the early 20th century including motorcycles, military vehicles, cars manufactured in Latvia and limousines that once belonged to Molotov and Brezhnev in the Kremlin.

Ethnographic Open-Air Museum of Latvia

Founded in 1924, the Latvian Ethnographic Museum is one of the oldest open-air museums in Europe. Historical dwellings, peasants', fishermen's and artisans' homesteads, a tavern and windmills have been gathered here from all over Latvia. Masters of 18 different crafts demonstrate their work: spoon-carvers, bee-keepers, potters and others. Services are held at Usma Church every Sunday. The organ and folk music concerts and regular craft fairs that take place in the summer time are not to be missed. The collection contains 100 000 items.

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