This museum is sited in a vast historicist building dating from 1905. It primarily deals with the great Latvian painters of the late 19C to the middle of the 20C (Janis Rozentals, Janis Valters, Uga Skulme, Janis Liepins, Valdemars Tone…), but also has a section on Russian art from 1870 to 1930, the period during which it forged its own identity. Temporary exhibitions take place on the ground floor of the left wing of the building.