Latvian ethnographic Museum is located near the centre of the capital, on the shores of lake Jugla. Among such Museum Latvian Museum is one of the oldest in Europe. He is a rather big area that constitutes more than 80 ha. Here are collected residential and commercial buildings, brought to the Museum from different parts of Latvia.

Summer at the Museum you can stroll on foot or by bike, and in winter to explore the Museum are ideal skiing and downhill skiing. Latvian ethnographic open air Museum offers the opportunity to see how the peasants lived in what baths steamed Latvians, also offered the opportunity to participate in festivals held here and even trying to forge itself a decoration.

The Museum was founded in 1924, it opened in 1932. Walking through ethnographic Museum there is no feeling that you are in the Museum, one gets the feeling that you're plunged into the world that existed a few centuries ago. In the exhibition hall, which is located in a former barn of the manor, several times a year there is a change in exposure. Here often hosts various festivals and events, visitors are invited to take part in the celebration, and also conducted master classes. You can also purchase a souvenir Souvenirs and crafts masters. Annually at the Museum in June fairs are held, so in 2010 the fair was held was the 40th in a row.

In the winter time in the Museum, too, can find something to do: sledding, except togol to try your hand at ice fishing, winter skiing will be able to find a suitable hills located within the ethnographic Museum.

The Museum is a cozy old Church made of wood. She is a working, in addition, with prior arrangement, you can make the wedding ceremony.

In the Museum there is a mill in the late 19th century. In the Museum the mill belonging to the so-called "stave mills, ended in 1975. In 1937, the Museum moved to bath, built in the mid 19th century. In the bath there is a canopy, changing room itself and a washroom. Bath heater is composed of boulders and bricks. In addition to these there are a lot of different structures, only about 120. There are apartment houses and various outbuildings: bath, blacksmith shop, mill, barn, Church, there is even a whole fishing village.