National History Museum of Latvia — Attraction in Riga

Great museum, but it's not fully ready for an international audience. All panels are just in Latvian, so you have to rely on Google translate to fully understand all the details. This limit is partially covered by texts in English/Russian provided at the entry of the room (see photo) where main topics are summarized. The order of rooms you need to visit is sometimes confusing and arrows on the floor often do not help. Apart all the cons listed here is a nice museum that is able to provide you a quick overview of the history of latvia in just two hours. I really appreciated the temporary show of coins of latvia (this time panels are bilingual...

The 100 years exhibition is ok, but to see SS soldiers mentioned as national heroes is not okay in my opinion. Did not get to see the rest as the staff started closing before the official opening hours. If it says it’s open until 17.00, don’t shut down before. Also really provocative to have someone controlling you while you watch the exhibition. Several times staff appeared with no other reason than to control what I was doing. Each time they noticed I saw them, they quickly disappeared. The staff alone made this a bad...

A special exhibition on 100th anniversary of Latvia with the collaboration among more than 60 museum is shown on the second floor, and with a 3 euro admission one can learn how Latvian people persevered during one Nazi and two Russian occupation without ever giving up the idea of establishing their own country. Highly recommended for those interested in Baltic States. For the permanent exhibition, remember to grab the English version of description of the content at the entrance of each...