We offer guided tours and lectures on nature and environmental protection.

Tours are guided by a museum educator or a specialist in the respective field.

Tours lasts from 45 to 60 minutes. We also offer an extended tour (up to 90 minutes) for more in-depth exploration of the subject.

The maximum number of persons per group is 30.

We offer tours in Latvian, Russian and English.

Prices for guided tours in English € 20.00* (45–60 min); € 25.00* (60–90 min).
* price does not include museum entrance tickets

There are 13 permanent exhibitions open to public, many of which hold various tangible materials, interactive games and audiovisual information. 

Most of information is provided in Latvian, however in each exhibition hall there is a printed guide in English and Russian. Guide holder is located at the entrance in the exhibition. 

Guided tours are also available. Click here to read more.

What it is the Latvian Museum of Natural History?

The Latvian Museum of Natural History collects, preserves, and studies Latvian and world nature collections. On certain days the museum is open to public. 

What to do at the museum?

Various rocks, minerals, fossils, stuffed animals, insects, plants and fungi are showcased at the museum. There are plenty of interactive games in the exhibition halls, visitors can touch different nature objects, and listen to bird songs. 

We offer guided tours and lectures on nature and environmental protection.

Excursions are guided by a museum educator or a specialist in the respective field.

Tours lasts from 45 to 60 minutes. 

The maximum number of persons per group is 30.

We offer tours in Latvian, Russian and English.

Prices for guided tours in English € 25.00* 
* price does not include museum entrance tickets

The museum's research work is one of the most important facets of the museum; it manifests in the study of the natural environment of Latvia, in the processing and development of collections, in the creation of new exhibitions, and in providing environmental education. The museum's specialists are involved in the implementation of both local and international projects, as well as in the provision of educational and communication programmes of international conventions.

The museum’s zoological collection is one of its most diverse: it includes almost all of the systematic groups of vertebrates and invertebrates (not including insects and arachnids), and comprises almost 30 thousand specimens.

Of all of the museum’s collections, the entomological collection has the largest number of species represented and the largest number of specimens (of which there are more than 60,000). The collection contains both historical and contemporary collected material and represents several insect orders.

The palaeontological collection consists of ancient animal and plant fossils from Latvia and surrounding territories. Among them are 430 million-year-old corral fossils and 160 million-year-old mollusc shells as well as the relatively recent bones of woolly mammoths and other Quaternary period animals. The most valuable part of the museum’s palaeontological collection is its diverse fish fossil collection from the Devonian period.

The geological collection consists of more than 43,000 units. Minerals, rocks and fossils have been collected since the museum’s beginnings and the work continues to the current day. Especially broad and diverse is the collection of the sedimentary rocks of Latvia. The museum’s geology interest group aided in the collecting of specimens for the unique mineral and rock collections from the South Caucasus and the Kola Peninsula. The Baltic amber collection is also consistently increasing in size.