Art museums in Latvia

The Riga Art Nouveau Museum is housed in the building where Latvian architect Konstantīns Pēkšēns lived until 1907 that is characterized by its powerful dimensions and expressive silhouette. The ornamental reliefs feature stylized motifs from the local flora and fauna. It has an Art Nouveau spiral s

The Latvian National Museum of Art is an art museum in Riga that is housed in a building, built in 1905, designed by German architect Wilhelm Neumann. The museum holds a collection of over 52,000 works of art by Baltic and Russian painters and sculptors from both the 19th and 20th century. The colle

The Art Museum Riga Bourse is a museum of foreign art in Riga that contains an extensive collection of world art from Ancient Egyptian/Middle eastern art that dates back to 5000 BC to the present. The Oriental Gallery inside the museum boasts a selection of Japanese, Chinese, Indian and Indonesian t

The Latvian Museum of Photography is the only museum in Riga that is solely devoted to photography, founded in 1993 and housed in an old merchant building from the 16th century. The building still has its colorful wall paintings and the historic parquet flooring ornaments. The museum organises exhib

The Arsenals Exhibition Hall of the Latvian National Museum of Art is housed in a late Russian Classicism customs warehouse or arsenal built at the beginning of the 19th century. The museum holds and displays part of the LNMA collection that dates back from the second half of the 20th century to the

The Museum of Decorative Arts and Design (MDAD) in an art museum in Riga. The museum and its collection introduces visitors to the work of Latvia’s leading artists in decorative art and design. The Museum of Decorative Art and Design holds seven collections, namely: textile art, ceramics, metal, lea

The The Janis Rozentāls and Rūdolfs Blaumanis Museum is devoted to one of the founders of Latvian professional fine arts, Janis Rozentāls (1866 - 1916). He lived in the Apartment No. 9 from 1904 until 1915. The building was built in 1903 and designed by architects K. Pēkšēns and E. Laube and is one

The Riga Porcelain Museum is a ceramics museum in Riga that hosts exhibitions with contemporary solo work by Latvian porcelain artists. The museum holds the broadest collection of manufactured porcelain in Riga, mostly manufactured at the Riga Porcelain Factory from the 1950s to 1990s. Visitors lear

The Latvian Museum of Architecture in Riga is housed in an old medieval building known as 'Three brothers'. The museum holds a collection of over 1,000 exhibits, but does not host a permanent exhibition. The collection contains mostly original works of architects, including outlines, sketches and dr