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For schools

Riga Castle offers guided tours and lessons for schoolchildren. In 2024: “Riga Castle. Eras and Inhabitants”, “My Latvia” and “Get to Know Riga Castle”. In 2025: “How Did the Ancients Live?”, “What is a Museum?”, “Latvia: from the Foundation to the Present Day”, and “A Journey through Latvian History”. The upper floor of the castle – the “Explorer’s Attic” learning room – is specially equipped for this audience.

Guided tours

In autumn 2024, the Latvian National Museum of History opens the restored rooms of the castle for viewing. These spaces have preserved their original medieval appearance while featuring architectural and interior elements from various later periods. After first phases of the reconstruction project, 4,400 square metres of the castle are open to the public: the vaulted cellar, the refectory (dining hall), the chapel, the four-storey high Lead Tower, the attic and other rooms.

Guide service:
Guided tour for up to 10 people (90 minutes)
30 EUR + entrance ticket for each member.

Guided tour for 11 to 30 people (90 minutes)
40 EUR + entrance ticket for each member.

For more detailed information please contact us:

+371 67221357

info@lnvm.lv

Please note that the application is intended for making a reservation. Museum employee will contact you after receiving the message.

Museum lessons

In 2024 Riga Castle offers several museum lessons – “Riga Castle. Eras and Inhabitants”, “My Latvia” and “Get to Know Riga Castle”. From 2025: “How Did the Ancients Live?”, “What is a Museum?”, “Latvia: from the Foundation to the Present Day”, and “A Journey through Latvian History”.

Price:
Museum lesson from 7 to 30 people 4 EUR for each member.

For more detailed information please contact us:

+371 67221357

info@lnvm.lv

Please note that the application is intended for making a reservation. Museum employee will contact you after receiving the message.

Riga Castle. Eras and Inhabitants

Grade 7–12

The lesson, dedicated to exploring Riga Castle, allows schoolchildren to interactively learn about the restored premises and history of the castle by taking on the role of the castle’s inhabitants from different eras.

My Latvia

Grade 1–9

The lesson promotes understanding of the circumstances and processes sourounding the formation of the Latvian state, strengthens the idea of its value.

Get to Know Riga Castle

Grade 1–12

In the lesson, schoolchildren get to know Riga Castle – one of the best-preserved castles of the Teutonic Order in the Baltic Sea region with more than 500 years of history. The recently restored Riga Castle is not only an excellent monument of architecture and art, but also a witness to historical events – important decisions for Latvia were made in this building by the rulers of different times.

How did the Ancients Live?

Grade 5–9

In the lesson pupils increase their knowledge of ancient Latvian history by learning about various archaeological objects – weapons, tools, household items, ceramics, jewellery, and reconstructed clothing – and strengthen their skills to identify and describe various historical sources.

What is a Museum?

Grade 1–9

This lesson aims to introduce pupils to the museum’s history and its activities – collecting and preserving objects, research, restoration and promotion to the public – and to raise awareness of the museum’s functions in preserving and promoting cultural heritage.

Latvia From the Foundation to the Present Day

Grade 5–12

This lesson aims to strengthen pupils’ knowledge and understanding of the 20th century Latvian historical events.

Journey Through the History of Latvia

Grade 1–4

This lesson aims to introduce participants to how people lived in the territory of Latvia from the Stone Age to the present day, teaching them to recognise the characteristics of different time periods.

Travelling exhibitions

The museum offers travelling exhibitions for schools, museums, libraries, and other venues. The exhibitions are large informative stands, viewable from both sides, with a wealth of illustrative material and textual information.

Price: 10 EUR/day.

For more detailed information please contact us:

+371 67221357

info@lnvm.lv

Please note that the application is intended for making a reservation. Museum employee will contact you after receiving the message.

Latvia: Land. State. People

This exhibition focuses on the ethnic history of the Latvian people, their traditions and traditional clothing, and the history and geography of the Latvian state.

Latvia During the War of Independence. 1918–1921

Through a variety of photographs and documents, this exhibition depicts the creation of the Latvian state, the most important events and personalities of the struggle for independence, and the first steps of the State in the political, economic, cultural and educational spheres.

The Truth about the Lielvārde Belt?

The pictures in this exhibition depict Lielvārde belts from the museum’s collection. These woven belts are the pride of our country’s traditional culture and included in the Latvian Cultural Canon.

We, the People

This exhibition, created in cooperation with students from several Latvian schools, reflects Latvia’s development over the last 30 years, with particular emphasis on the importance of civic participation and the most significant changes after the restoration of independence.

The Institution of the President of Latvia

This exhibition is dedicated to the Presidents of Latvia from 1922 to 1940 and from 1993 to 2019. Public officials’ work in different periods of history is outlined through photographs and descriptions.

Who Studies the Past, Blesses the Future

Through rich illustrative material – photographs, drawings and documents – this exhibition tells the story of the Monuments Board and their important contributions to the identification, collection, and promotion of Latvian cultural heritage.

On the Way to Freedom of Latvia

This exhibition is dedicated to a short but very important period in Latvian history – the Third Awakening, which led to the restoration of Latvia’s independence.

The Baltic Way of Freedom

This exhibition is dedicated to the 1989 Baltic Way demonstration, with a broader historical retrospective on the consequences of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and its secret protocols in the history of Eastern Europe in the 20th century, as well as the cooperation between the Baltic States.

Viking and Swedish Times in Latvia

This exhibition focuses on the importance of the inhabitants of Latvia in the context of Northern and Eastern Europe in the 7th-12th centuries, shows their cultural richness and influence in the region, reveals contact and interactions between East Baltic and Scandinavian peoples, and demonstrates Latvia as a distinct and vibrant part of the world with its own lasting significance.

Mittens, Gloves…

236 photographs of gloves and mittens provide a snapshot of the LNMH collection and introduce the 19th and 20th century knitting tradition of Latvia.

Latvian Riflemen Batalions

This exhibition presents the most striking moments of battle and everyday life of the Latvian Riflemen captured by photographers, celebrating their achievements and memory 100 years after the founding of the Riflemen Battalions.

Me, You, Us in Democracy. Public Participation in Democratic Latvia (1918–1990–Present)

This exhibition offers a look at democracy through three essential elements – social and civic participation, political participation, and equality. It emphasises the message that democracy is a model of governance that gives every individual a wide range of choices and opportunities for participation.

While There is Still Time. Beginning of Photoethnography in Latvia

This exhibition is a tribute to the first ethnographic photographs and features more than 150 photographs taken between the 1860s and the 1920s.

The Great Northern War in the Baltics (1700–1721)

This exhibition is dedicated to the 300th anniversary of the end of the most ambitious military conflict between the Baltic Sea powers in the early 18th century, which radically changed the geopolitical situation in Northern Europe for centuries, while the events of the war directly affected the lives of everyone in the Baltic region, including in Latvia.

State President Gustavs Zemgals – 150

The exhibition is created to celebrate the 150th anniversary of statesman and public figure Gustavs Zemgals (1871–1939), and to highlight his contributions to the formation of Latvian public life in Riga in the early 20th century, the creation of Latvian statehood, and the establishment of the independent Republic of Latvia.

10 Questions to the Voter. 1920–1990–2020

This exhibition is designed to answer 10 important questions about Latvian democracy and its history.