Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, Riga

The museum is situated in the former St.George's church (the oldest stone building in Riga).

It mostly displays design objects created by Latvian artists.

Latvian decorative artists (among them Jūlijs Madernieks (1870–1955), Jūlijs Straume (1874–1970), Ansis Cīrulis (1883–1942), Jēkabs Bīne (1895–1955), Arvīds Dzērvītis (1847–1942)) have been mostly inspired by folk craft traditions, ethnographic heritage, with a search for their national identity, applied to the decorative art.

The museum owns a huge collection of Latvian modernism (Romans Suta (1896–1944), Aleksandra Beļcova (1892–1981) and Sigismunds Vidbergs (1890–1970)). Latvian modernism is defined by the abstract geometrical forms inspired by the Cubist, Futurist and Art Deco movements, decorative colours and shapes and graphic subtlety. The collection of works spans the time from the late 1800s to the present.