The Museum compiles materials and gathers information on history of Riga city and history of Latvian navigation. It is situated in a building of Riga Dome Ensemble, which is an architectural monument of the 13th century.

The repository of Riga History and Navigation Museum and the exposition halls present numerous of unique exhibits, interesting for Latvian and other countries' researchers.

The Museum has several branches, specialising in different fields of Riga city and Latvian navigation history. The History Museum of Photography covers the history and development of photography; the Menzendorf's House: The house - museum of the 17th- 18th century Riga citizen gives an insight in the house and mode of life of Riga's wealthy burghers, as well as collects, compiles and investigates materials about the building of the museum, its former owners, the life style of Riga inhabitants and history of German-Baltic culture;
The Memorial Museum of Ainaži Naval College gathers, compiles and investigates materials about the history of Ainaži Naval College, Ainaži town and Vidzeme's cost history of building of sailing-ships in the 19th - 20th centuries. A separate branch is planned to be created on the basis of the Department of History of Latvian Navigation. It will be situated in the Dannenstern's house, (under reconstruction).

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© Everita Milčonoka - text
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