Art Museum Riga Bourse
Building, Museum
Art Nouveau district in Riga | © Feline DaCat/Flickr
This gallery-museum is situated at the very heart of Riga’s Old Town. The museum is based in a 19th-century building inspired by Venetian Renaissance palaces. It is very richly and tastefully decorated both outside and inside, with gold statues on the ceilings in the old exhibition halls, beautiful columns and an amazing crystal fireplace. The gallery has four permanent expositions: the Painting Gallery, featuring Western European paintings from the 16th to the 19th century; the Western Gallery with Western European porcelain from the 18th to the 20th century; the Oriental Gallery – a collection of art from the Far East and the Middle East; and Gondola – a sculpture by world-famous Russian artist Dmitry Gutov.