Art and Culture Museum Tours in Latvia in 2026

Latvia's cultural experiences are most distinctive around the traditions of song and folk art that sustained national identity through occupation. Guided tours of the Latvian Open Air Ethnographic Museum — where farmsteads, churches, and workshops from across the country's regions have been relocated into a single lakeside landscape — provide a vivid introduction to regional folk culture. Art nouveau architectural walking tours in Riga, amber jewellery workshop experiences, and guided visits to the Latvian National Museum of Art extend the programme. A Latvian sauna experience with traditional rituals, and a folk dance or choir rehearsal visit during the Song Festival season, add living cultural registers. That's where it gets interesting.