Riga Museums & Galleries

Riga's museums offer a comprehensive look at Baltic history and global art. The Art Museum "Riga Bourse" houses the country's largest world art collection in a 19th-century Venetian Renaissance palazzo. The Museum of the History of Riga and Navigation, located within the Riga Cathedral ensemble, is one of Europe's oldest public museums. Visitors can explore Latvian rural traditions at the lakeside Ethnographic Open-Air Museum or delve into 20th-century history at the Occupation Museum and the War Museum, the latter housed in the medieval Powder Tower.