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A glimpse into the complex past of Latvia from 1940 to 1991. An objective account of systematic attempts to destroy Latvia and its people by both Soviet and Nazi regimes.
http://www.occupationmuseum.lv

Latvian Art Academy
http://www.lma.lv

The museum shows how Riga turned from a small settlement on the bank of the river Ridzene into a big Hanseatic city. The second display illustrates the history and development of nautical navigation.
http://vip.latnet.lv/museums/Riga/

The formation of the Latvian Riflemen's regiments and the ensuing battles of WWI spurred the founding of this museum in 1916. The museum moved into the Powder Tower in 1919, known as the Sand Tower in the 17th century.
http://www.karamuzejs.lv

Don't miss the opportunity to see one of the most beautiful baroque palaces in Latvia! This palace was designed and built between 1736 to 1740 by the renowned Italian architect Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli .
http://www.rpm.apollo.lv

Until 1.10 open on Thr 11.00 - 19.00. Here you may witness the advancement of Latvian art up to 1945. The museum has a rich collection, about 14 000 exhibits among which are works of famous Latvian and Russian painters such as V. Purvitis, Janis Rozentals, etc.
http://www.vmm.lv

The Museum of Foreign Art is 80 years old, and during the course of its history, it has established the greatest collection of foreign art in all of Latvia. The museum�s collection features art from various eras and various nations, covering a period which begins in the 5th millennium before the birth of Christ and ends at the beginning of the 20th century. The collection includes several basic groups of art � the art of Ancient Egypt, the art of the Far East, and the art of Western Europe. The museum�s collection contains paintings, sculptures, graphic art and examples of decorative applied art.
http://www.amm.lv

The Pauls Stradi?� Museum of the History of Medicine was established on October 1, 1957, and opened to the public in 1961. The true father of the museum was Professor Pauls Stradi?� (1896-1958), who began to think about a museum of this kind in the 1930s. Dr Stradi?� had an extensive collection of medical equipment and other items. Together with his colleagues, he arranged the items from the collection so that they would be appropriate for medical students and specialists. The professor was a cancer specialist, and much of the collection involved items from that area of specialisation. Today the museum�s collection includes a wide variety of items from its founder, and these are exhibited in relation to the various aspects of the museum�s exhibits. The collection also includes a vast range of materials from the personal collections of the pharmaceutics historian D?vis Bl?ment?ls and the pharmacist J?nis Maiz?te. The collection is constantly being updated, and the exhibits are available for public viewing, as Pauls Stradi?� had always intended. Only 5% of the museum�s holdings can be exhibited on the four floors of the main building (Antonijas iela 1). All told, the museum possesses more than 190,000 items, stored in five sections � Ancient and Rare Books and Printed Works; Manuscripts and Documents; Photo, Phonographic and Cinema Recordings; Applied Sources; and the Fine Arts.
http://www.mvm.lv

The Latvian Railway history museum was founded on August 30, 1994, along with the establishment of its two branches in Riga and Jelgava. In Riga the museum is situated on the left bank of the Daugava River at Uzvaras Boulevard in an old engine warehouse
http://www.railwaymuseum.lv

The museum collects, preserves, documents, studies, exhibits and popularises spiritual and material values important for the history of the Latvian audiovisual culture. It introduces the society with notable events in the international audiovisual culture and supports the creation of new films and videos.
http://www.rkm.lv