One of Riga’s oldest museums has been renovated and modernised in recent years with interactive exhibits, informative touch screens and learning games for the kids. The second floor is dedicated to palaeontology and geology with mock-ups of ancient ecosystems and fossils under glass, while the third floor specialises in zoology with an unparalled taxidermy collection that includes everything from eagles to lions and even a giraffe. The fourth and fifth floors present exhibits relating to human evolution, marine biology, botany and entomology. An impressive hanging skeleton of a killer whale offsets gruesome exhibits of human skulls and foetuses.

Admission: 1.50Ls; audio guides: in Latvian 2Ls, in English or Russian 4Ls.