Changes in the Opening Hours of the Museum
On November 17 the museum is open from 10:00 to 16:00. On November 18 the museum is open from 11:00 to 19:00. Free entrance. Address of the National History Museum of Latvia: Brīvības bulvāris 32, Rīga
Exhibition “Gloves, Mittens” Only Until March 5
The exhibition of the Latvian ethnographic gloves and mittens is made as a double-sided folding stand. The photographs depict the collection of mittens and gloves that are stored in the National History Museum of Latvia and the traditions of knitting mittens and gloves in the 19th and 20th century, but the photographs of the Board ...
The Night of Museums in the National History Museum of Latvia
During the Night of Museums on the 21th May the National History Museum of Latvia located on 32 Brīvības Boulevard will be opened from 7.00 p.m. to 01.00 a.m. The entire exposition of the history of Latvia will be opened for the first time during the Night of Museums. A door to the world of ...
The Permanent Exposition is Opened
It is possible to visit the permanent exposition that shows the history of Latvia from the ancient times to present days: “The Ancient History of Latvia 11 000 BC – 1200″, “Livonia in 13th-16th Century”, “The Territory of Latvia and its Population in 16th-18th Century”, “The Duchy of Courland and Semigallia. 1561-1795″, “Manors and Nobility ...
“Latvians Abroad 1944–1990″
From April 11 new part of the permanet exposition is opened - “Latvians Abroad 1944–1990″ The second Soviet occupation of Latvia in 1944 and 1945 led to a mass of Latvian refugees fleeing to the West – as many as 200 000 people in all. The war, repressions implemented by the occupant regimes, and the ...
“Latvians in the Second Half of the 19th Century and the Early 20th Century: National Identity, Culture and Social Life”
From January 23 new part of the permanet exposition is opened: ”Latvians in the Second Half of the 19th Century and the Early 20th Century: National Identity, Culture and Social Life.” The 19th century was an age of a modernisation and new initiatives in the territory of Latvia. Former serfs became free farmers, the division ...
“Everyday life in Soviet Latvia. Interior of a flat in 1960ies”
From December 28, 2015 new part of the permanet exposition is opened: “Everyday life in Soviet Latvia. Interior of a flat in 1960ies”
“The Soviet Regime in Latvia: Ideology, Governance, Economics (1944-1985)”
From December 9, 2015 a new part of the permanet exposition is opened: “The Soviet Regime in Latvia: Ideology, Governance, Economics (1944-1985)” The Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic (Latvian SSR) or Soviet Latvia was an administrative unit of the Soviet Union (USSR) that was established due to the Soviet occupation of 1940. The Soviet regime was ...
NHML organizes an international scientific conference “Individual. History. Nation. The 120th Anniversary of the Latvian Ethnographic Exhibition”
In 2016 the Latvian Ethnographic Exhibition commemorates its 120th anniversary. The exhibition was held in Rīga in 1896, in the framework of the 10th All-Russian Archaeological Congress. In the 19th century ethnography, which at that time included both history and physical anthropology, in Central and Eastern Europe became a peculiar way of expressing nation’s identity ...
