The Sun Museum
Right in the heart of Riga there is a museum similar to which you will not be able to find in Europe. It is the Sun Museum holding a collection of more than 300 suns from various countries. This collection started with a tiny sun in year 1999 and has grown to the largest collection of suns in Europe.
The Sun as the giver of light has been worshiped from the ancient times and still is today. In the Sun Museum in Riga you will be able to see the Sun as a clock, a wind chime, a bird feeder, a fountain. The Sun almost always has a face and the grimaces are very impressive.
In the basement of the museum there is a creative studio where individuals and groups are invited to paint the plaster suns themselves and have them as a gift from the museum. This sun you will be able to take home with you to always have good memories about this warm place!
The Sun Museum is located right in the center of Riga near its City Council.
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August 24th, 2009 at 10:58 pm
I am just finishing a history of the Sun, to be published by Random house in the summer of 2010.
By coincidence, IO will be in Russia in September,and it is possible that I could visit the Museum.
Is the Museum open on Sundays (specifically Sunday 27 September)?
Is there anyone who could act as interpreter for me, if I visited that day?
August 25th, 2009 at 9:16 pm
Hi Richard,
Don’t worry , Sun museum will be open all days in the week 10 - 19 ! Each visitor receives complete information from the museum tour guide.
Welcome Sun museum !
December 13th, 2009 at 7:53 pm
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June 18th, 2010 at 11:20 am
Such an incredible place! I m collector myself - I collect cats (popular thing to collect I know) but suns - it was something new to me! You have a lot of them and hope there will be more if by any chance I have an option to visit Riga next year again! Good luck to you and thanks for a good time and the sun decor I painted in your workshop!
Brian from Groningen, Netherlands
October 24th, 2010 at 12:44 pm
Hi Richard,
I am afraid that you will not be able to visit the Sun museum, because you are going to Russia, but the museum is in a completely different country. Next time try and visit Latvia, then you have bigger chances…
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