Paula Stradiņa medicīnas vēstures muzejs — Attraction in Riga

This museum is really interesting. The bottom floor speaks about the start of the museum speaking about medieval medicine, urine tasting and public health, the second floor is dedicated to the findings of Louis Pasteur, John Hunter, William Harvey and other notable scientists at the time who helped correct misconceptions established by Galen and contributed significantly to medical advancements. Ilya Mechnikov has a full room dedicated to him for his work on pasteurisation. The top floor is dedicated to 3 different exhibits. The first is an exhibit on Janis Gleizds, a Latvian medical photographer who suffered an accident at a young age leaving him disabled after losing both his hands. There is also information in the same exhibit about his friend Viktors Kalnberzs the (plastic) surgeon who performed the only transgender surgery to be carried out in the USSR. The next exhibit of the top floor is dedicated to showcasing different medical equipment including X-Ray machines. The final exhibit is about space showcasing specialist equipment, astronauts food, and chernushka the dog that went to space. I highly recommend this museum if any of these topics interest you.

I spent 2-3 hours going around the museum. There are a lot of interesting displays to read and many interesting exhibits to see. There are...

I visited the Musuem during my trip to Riga due to many recommendations from TripAdvisor and Google. First of all, the Musuem is very small-the building itself have 4 floors and 2 of them are the wardrobe and the general office. The Exhibition was not very interesting - the first floor of the Exhibition was about different surgeons and doctors mostly during the Ussr period. For me, this floor was not too much interesting (Especially the image of surgery on the wall). The second half of the floor was about the Middle Ages and the first steps of medicine in our world. The second floor was about medicine machines and equipment, mutations with animals (I really didn't look at the second floor). The third floor was the banger - SPACE. Very detailed and awesome Exponats, space food and machines used in space (even a Scarecrow of a dog named "Chernushka" the second half of the third floor was about tooth treatment and dental clinics,fossilized bugs and the nature. In conclusion, the Musuem of medicine is interesting and detailed But can be a little bit scary for kids between ages...

The content of the museum itself is fairly interesting and while it is on the smaller side, there is more than enough in there to justify the fair price. However, we found most of the staff to be very blunt and borderline rude. We were denied student discounts despite having our student cards and were denied a reason when we asked why. On the second floor we were asked to present our tickets, we explained that we didn’t get given any tickets and were denied entry. We showed our receipt and they then explained we could see part of the second floor but hadn’t paid for the full exhibition. We said we did not realise there were different ticket types, they responded to each other in Latvian and started laughing. If you have a keen interest in the museum content or are struggling to find activities to do it may be worth a visit, but we wouldn’t be rushing back - even to see the mysterious ‘best part’ of the museum we weren’t allowed to see! An overall...