Profession & craft museums in Riga

The Latvian Ethnographic Open Air Museum (The Ethnographic Open-Air Museum of Latvia) is an open-air museum in Riga. The museum exhibits around 120 historical buildings from all over Latvia, including Riga's region itself, Kurzeme, Vidzeme, Zemgale and Latgale. The buildings in the Latvian Ethnograp

The Latvian Museum of Pharmacy (The Pharmacy Museum) aims to show pharmacy as part of medicine throughout history and show its significance in the development of a healthy society. The museum features six exhibition halls, with around 3000 displayed items. The museum has exhibitions themed: 'Pharmac

The Laima Chocolate Museum in Riga is all about chocolate. Visitors to the museum can taste the best of Laima chocolates and see behind the scenes of the chocolate making process of Laima. Furthermore, visitors can create their own chocolate candies at the creative workshop.

The Latvian Fire Fighting Museum is housed in an Art Nouveau building from 1912, designed by architect Reinhold Schmeling. The exhibition on the first floor illustrates the development of fire fighting in Latvia through helmets, tools, uniforms, hoses, pumps and a firefighting vehicle called 'Chevro