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Art Nouveau District
Streets of apartment houses covered in screaming faces, sphinxes and peacocks, among the finest Art Nouveau anywhere.
- Open
- Always; the museum closes on Mondays
- Price
- Free; paid for the museum
- Time Needed
- 2 hours
- Address
- Alberta iela 12, LV-1010 RigaDirections
- Getting There
- A 15-minute walk north of the Old Town, past the Freedom Monument.
Why Go
About a third of central Riga's buildings are Art Nouveau, put up in the boom years around 1900. The most extravagant, on Alberta iela and Elizabetes iela, were designed by Mikhail Eisenstein, the father of the film director Sergei Eisenstein.
The Riga Art Nouveau Museum, in an architect's apartment at Alberta iela 12, shows how the rooms behind the façades looked, with a spiral staircase painted in its original colors.
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