Category: Riga & Nearby

  • A Visit to the Latvian Ethnographic Open-Air Museum

    A Visit to the Latvian Ethnographic Open-Air Museum

    What was life like for Latvian farmers in rural areas a couple of centuries ago? If you don’t know the answer, the Latvian Ethnographic Open-Air Museum may be an eye-opening experience for you. It certainly was for me. So, come along for a walk through a peaceful forest where Latvian homesteads, churches, and other buildings…

    Lasīt: A Visit to the Latvian Ethnographic Open-Air Museum
  • What to do in Riga if it rains? Interesting and unusual museums

    What to do in Riga if it rains? Interesting and unusual museums

    And don’t run away at the word museum. In this list I have included only the ones that have left a permanent impression on me. In one of Rigas museums, you will have the opportunity to play games. In another, you will travel in time. And in yet another, you will work your imagination and…

    Lasīt: What to do in Riga if it rains? Interesting and unusual museums
  • Riga Art Nouveau museum – your chance to time travel

    Riga Art Nouveau museum – your chance to time travel

    You are invited to someone’s home, but instead of traveling by car, you will journey by time machine. The destination? The year 1903, Art Nouveau era in Riga. Sounds impossible? Not at all. Because in Riga Art Nouveau museum a day in the life of a family from 1903 is frozen in time.  Looks like…

    Lasīt: Riga Art Nouveau museum – your chance to time travel