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Ethnographic Open-Air Museum

Farmhouses, windmills and wooden churches from every region of Latvia, in a pine forest on Lake Jugla.

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Photo: Andrijko Z. · CC BY-SA 4.0
Open
Every day
Price
Paid
Time Needed
Half a day
Address
Brīvības gatve 440, LV-1024 RigaDirections
Getting There
Bus 1 from the center, about 30 minutes.

Why Go

Founded in 1924, it's one of the oldest open-air museums in Europe, with more than a hundred buildings from the 17th to the 20th centuries. Craftspeople work in the farmsteads, and a crafts fair is held on the first weekend of June.

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