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MuseumsSite Name: Latvian National History MuseumCountry: Latvia
NOTE: This site is 35.689 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Museum
Nearest Town: Riga
Latitude: 56.950746N Longitude: 24.101020E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
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3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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Museum in Latvia.
The National History Museum of Latvia is the largest repository of Latvian material culture. It was founded in 1869 as the museum of the Riga Latvian Society. Since 1920 the Museum has been located in the Riga Castle at Pils Laukums 3 Riga LV-1050 tel:67223004.
The museum shares the building with the office of the President of Latvia so the armed guards and security apparatus around the entrance can be a little offputting. Like everything else in Riga the entrance and the stairway to museum (it's on the 3rd floor) is a bit tatty but it has a excellent collection of ancient artefacts from the stone age onwards.
However the real gem is their display for the blind. I was able to finally handle a stone axe and run my finger along its edge (it's really sharp and fortunately I was cautious enough not to cut myself). Of course there's more than stone axes that can be handled, pottery shards , arrow heads, clothing fragments etc.
The Latvian National History Museum website.
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