WHO ARE WE?
Latvians Abroad is the only museum in the world whose main mission is to collect testimonies, objects, photographs and stories about Latvian emigration from Latvia and life in the diaspora.
This homepage allows you to take a look at what the Museum does and creates in order to demonstrate the experiences of Latvians abroad at various times in history and today. Join us and discover it for yourself! Lasīt tālāk >
VISIT US
Museum collection store:
Mūkusalas iela 3, Rīga (Latvian National Library building).
Museum office:Dzirnavu iela 84 (Berga Bazārs), Rīga.
Before visiting the collection store or the office, please contact us!
Digital exhibitions
Almost every Latvian home outside of Latvia had, and still has, at least one national folk costume that is highly revered and respected – either brought along from Latvia as a family heirloom and passed down from generation to generation, or woven, sewn and made at home, or perhaps commissioned from an artisan.
The exhibition is available in Latvian and English.
The Story Quilt is a unique gift to Latvia on its centenary. The 1097 squares sent by diaspora Latvians from all over the world are a testimony to the importance and love felt by them for their fatherland.
The exhibition is currently only available in Latvian.
Timofeyevka, Nizhnyaya Bulanka, and Sukinava are villages in Siberia where Latvians have lived for several generations and where you can still hear Latvian being spoken.
The exhibition is currently only available in Latvian.
If you had to leave tomorrow to an unknown country, what would you put in your suitcase, and what would you leave behind? The online exhibition A Latvian’s Suitcase presents objects that have once travelled from Latvia and have now returned home.
The exhibition is available in Latvian and English.
Mazputniņš was a monthly publication for children published from 1959 to 1994 in the USA and Canada and distributed throughout the world. It was the only regular publication for Latvian children growing up outside Latvia.
Latvians Abroad offers an insight into the experiences of Latvians outside Latvia through a variety of life stories and objects.
The exhibition is available in Latvian and English.
A look at several Latvian emigrant routes from their origins in Latvia to the woods of Wisconsin, USA in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The project is supported by the American Latvian Association Culture Fund.
The exhibition is available in Latvian and English.
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Nyet, Nyet, Soviet!
A gift for you friends and relatives in Latvia (in Latvian): Nyet, Nyet, Soviet! Stāsti par latviešu politiskajām demonstrācijām trimdā (Nyet, Nyet, Soviet! Stories about Latvian Political Demonstrations in Exile).
Song. Festival. Life
A gift for your friends and relatives in Latvia (in Latvian): Dziesma. Svētki. Dzīve: Stāsti par latviešu dziesmu svētkiem ārzemēs (Song. Festival. Life: Stories about Latvian Song Festival Abroad).
Vārpa. The Promised Land
A gift for your friends and relatives in Latvia (in Latvian with EN subtitles): Vārpa. Apsolītā zeme (Vārpa. The Promised Land).
