Latvian Ethnographic Museum is located near the center of the capital, on the shore of Lake Jugla. Among this kind of museum of the Latvian Museum is one of the oldest in Europe. It takes a rather big area, is more than 80 hectares. Collected here are residential and farm buildings brought to the museum from all over Latvia.

In the summer the museum you can walk on foot or by bike, and in winter to explore the museum is perfect walking on skis. Latvian Ethnographic Open-Air Museum offers the opportunity to become acquainted with how the peasants lived, public baths soared Latvians also offered the opportunity to take part in the celebrations held here and even try on their own to forge a decoration.

The museum was founded in 1924, for the visits it was opened in 1932. Walking through the ethnographic museum do not feel that you are in a museum, it develops the feeling that you're plunged into a world that existed centuries ago. In the exhibition hall, which is located in the former barn of the estate, several times a year there is a change of exposure. It often hosts a variety of festivals and events, visitors are invited to take part in the celebration, as well as ongoing workshops. You can also buy some souvenirs and crafts masters. Every year the museum in June fairs are held, so in 2010 the fair was already 40 th in a row.

In winter, the museum is also possible to find something to do: you can ride a sled, in addition to try their hand at ice fishing, winter skiing fans will be able to find a suitable hills located within the Museum of Ethnography.

The museum is a cozy old church made of wood. She is acting, in addition, with prior arrangement, you can make a wedding ceremony.

The museum is the mill the late 19th century. The museum mill related to the type of so-called "pole-mills", came in 1975. In 1937 the museum "moved" room, built in the middle 19veka. The bath has a porch, cloakroom and self washing room. Bath furnace is composed of boulders and bricks. In addition to these there are a lot of different structures, a total of about 120. There are and homes, as well as various outbuildings: sauna, smithy, mill, barn, church, have even invested in a whole fishing village.