Take a Tour of the RIGA BOURSE

The European Art Gallery is located in the most luxurious rooms of the building on the 4th floor.

Once the balls were held here, music was played from the balcony, abundant banquets were made, and life was celebrated.

The gallery has been deliberately given a 19th-century feeling because it was the time of the formation of the building’s interior and the time of passionate collecting.

The painting display has been arranged by chronologically systematising the best quality 16th–19th-century works by national schools and genres – Dutch, Flemish, German, Italian, Austrian and other artists.

The gallery next to the painting display showcases 18th–20th-century European porcelain - German, Austrian, English, Danish, French porcelain and ceramic, and Swedish glass design examples.

The former safe room has been transformed into the Silverware Chamber and is a display of items from the museum’s precious metals collection, covering the period from the late 17th century until the early 20th century.

The Asian Art Gallery is situated on the 3rd floor of the museum and introduces visitors to the sizeable Asian Art Collection.

The display reflects on various aspects of aesthetics, religion, philosophy, and everyday life in Asia, and, at the same time, shows diverse techniques, forms, materials and storylines distinctive to each culture.

The Ancient Egypt Chamber is located in one of the safes of the former Riga Stock Exchange.

The doors decorated in neo-Gothic style have retained their original form allowing us to visualise the time when it was an important and well-guarded room.

Pre-Dynasty period Badari-Naqada ceramics and ritual palettes, made between 4400–3200 BC are the oldest objects in the museum collection.

However, the Dynasty period is represented with alabaster vessels, scarabs, amulets, shabti, and bronze statuettes of deities and animals.

The Ancient Greek and Roman Art Chamber introduces the visitors to Ancient Greek pottery, Ancient Greek and Roman coins as well as marble sculptures from the collection.

The Ancient pottery collection shows items of Ancient Greeks and its southern colonies – Puglia and Gnathia, Etruscan and ancient Italian tribes in Messapia and Daunia from the 15th–2nd century BC, allowing to trace the developmental periods and diversity of form and decoration.

Ancient numismatics collection includes coins from Ancient Greece, Hellenistic kingdoms as well as the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, dating from the 6th century BC to the 4th century AD.

The exhibition of works by the outstanding artist and thinker Nicholas Roerich (1874–1947) is also located on the 3rd floor of the museum. The tranquillity of this room helps viewers delve into the Himalayan peaks created by the master with an amazingly clean tempera palette.

Nicholas Roerich’s family roots are connected to Latvia, and since the 1930s Riga has a collection of his bestowed paintings, which the artist himself sent from India to the Latvian Roerich Society Museum (1930–1940).