Person & artist museums in Latvia

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 Žanis Lipke Memorial is devoted to Jānis (Žanis) Lipke, a Latvian rescuer of Jews in Riga during World War. The museum organises temporary exhibitions related to Žanis Lipke and the war.

Pauls Stradiņš Museum of the History of Medicine features a permanent exhibition that is designed to show visitors the evolution of medicine, how Latvian professor, physician, and surgeon Pauls Stradins wanted to show it. The museum holds a collection of around 200,000 objects of which every year th

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 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