5 museums to visit with the family and children.

Many museums offer both interesting exhibitions for children and creative spaces where children can enjoy spending time while their parents explore the museum. In this way, parents can calmly walk around the museum and then meet their children, who will have plenty to tell them.

The Latvian National Museum of Writing and Music on Mārstaļu Street in Old Riga.

This museum has an exhibition featuring various interesting activities that will appeal to adults, children and young people alike. The exhibition “Procrastination and Creation” offers a cultural and social perspective on two of the most beautiful languages of Latvian national culture—writing and music—from the end of the 19th century to the present day.

This is not a dry walk around looking at exhibits. Here, you can touch, listen, smell and try things out for yourself.

The experience of the exhibition begins in the Prologue, located on the building’s first floor (basement level), where you can surrender to a playful creative process with childlike delight.

Here you can play various musical instruments, learn what colour hearing, or synaesthesia, is, create a poem from magnetic cards and listen to it, take on the role of a conductor, explore the stories of the ancient walls and the museum’s creation, act them out on stage by creating a light-and-sound landscape, find out which Latvian literary character you are and take a photo together, spend time in peace and quiet in the “introverts’ corner”, enjoy reading, as well as colour and complete tasks on worksheets.

When visiting the children’s creative space, we recommend bringing a change of shoes.

The Prologue, or children’s creative space, is accessible with a ticket for the full exhibition or with a separate ticket.

Tehnoannas Pagrabi Science Centre, 8 A. Briāna Street.

This is an interactive journey into the world of the senses for every visitor, young and old alike. It is one of the smallest science centres in the world and differs from others through its special atmosphere and originally crafted exhibits. The exhibition combines art, science and the world of toys with the aim of awakening a spirit of creative discovery in every visitor.

The 1.5-hour session is like a performance during which you can travel to the stars in a planetarium, look for a way out of a labyrinth beneath Riga and enter the astonishing world of the chemistry amphitheatre. It is just as entertaining as it is educational!

Number of visitors per session—up to 30 people

Group and individual visits require advance booking.

Riga Motor Museum, 8 S. Eizenšteina Street.

This is one of the museums that also caters to children’s interests, and it is the largest, most diverse and technologically advanced museum of historic vehicles in the Baltic States.

An interactive exhibition with games and tasks is available here, allowing visitors to try operating vehicles themselves and thus better remember what they have seen and experienced.

“A Journey through the History of the Museum and the Automotive Industry” is an excellent game for the whole family, with tasks of varying levels of difficulty.

The target audience is families with children up to the age of 10. However, visitors of all ages will find the game interesting.

Although visitors are not allowed to climb inside the museum exhibits, the motor museum’s children’s play corner has a car that they can climb into, steer and rev up.

Alongside the usual playground attractions, there is also an interactive game that children can play individually or in teams. Five different game options are available. The play area is located on the museum’s terrace and is freely accessible to all museum and café visitors.

Track-based model car racing is also available. The Riga Motor Museum’s model car track is located in the building housing the exhibition on motorsport at the Biķernieki Track, and it is one of the longest model car tracks in the Baltic States—its total length is 42 metres.

The model car track can also be used for corporate events. You can arrange a children’s party here as well!

Latvian Firefighting Museum, 5 Hanzas Street.

The museum’s exhibition educates visitors and provides information about the history of firefighting in Latvia from the mid-19th century to the present day, as well as the history of the development of civil defence. Various exhibitions complement the museum’s permanent display.

In total, the museum collection contained 32,619 objects in June 2025. The collection is supplemented every year, mainly through donations from legal entities and individuals. The museum collection is available to interested visitors on weekdays from 08:30 to 17:00, by prior arrangement.

Here, children and young people can view exhibits and exhibitions and ask questions that interest them—over the years, this has proved to be one of the most fascinating museums for children.

Ojārs Vācietis Museum, 19 Ojāra Vācieša Street.

The museum is housed in a building more than 200 years old that was built as an inn. This residence played a special role in Ojārs Vācietis’s life and creative biography. Most of his poetry was written here. In O. Vācietis’s poetry, poems for children play an important role, and the museum also offers opportunities to make the tour interesting for its youngest visitors.

Several programmes are available and must be arranged with the museum in advance. Various events suitable for children are also held regularly—the museum garden and spacious rooms provide ample scope for a range of educational activities.

Special events for schoolchildren are available.

These are just some of the museums that are interesting to visit for adults as well as families with children and young people. More and more museums are striving to adapt their exhibitions to the times and to demand, making them increasingly interactive and diverse.