The mission of the National History Museum of Latvia is to collect, preserve, research and popularise spiritual and material culture from Latvia and the world from ancient times until today, which has archaeological, ethnographic, numismatic, historical or artistic significance, in the interests of the Latvian nation and its people.
The National History Museum of Latvia was founded in 1869 as the Museum of the Science Committee of the Riga Latvian Society. The Museum is the largest repository of Latvian material culture.