Riga Motor Museum is the biggest antique vehicle museum in the Baltic countries. The museum is a state agency operating under the Transport Ministry. Since 1992, the museum is a member of International Association of Transport and Communication Museums

International Association of Transport and Communication Museums

The International Association of Transport and Communication Museums is a world-wide membership organisation of museums which collect, interpret and make public material and information about transport and/or communication. Transport includes cars, buses, planes, railways, trams, horse carriages...

 (IATM–ICOM), since 1994 a member of Latvian Museum Association, since 2002 – a member of Latvian Transport Development and Education Association. The museum is located at 6 Sergeja Ezienšteina Street in the Mežciems neighbourhood of Riga. The museum also features a café and a sports club.

The museum was founded in 1989 on an initiative from Latvia Antique Automobile club (AAK)http://www.aak.lv/. The building was designed by the Latgyprogorstroy

Latgyprogorstroy

Institute "Latgyprogorstoy" - was a main institute of designing apartment houses in Latvian SSR.Full name of the institute was Latvian state institute of designing state construction . Founded in 1951, the institute took part in construction of the most modern Riga, Liepāja and Daugavpils...

 architect Viktors Valgums. Since 1992 it is a state museum.

One of the most significant exhibits in the museum is the 1938 Auto Union racing car

Auto Union racing car

The Auto Union Grand Prix racing cars types A to D, were developed and built by a specialist racing department of Horch works in Zwickau between 1933 and 1939....

Type D, which was saved from cutting into scrap by Viktors Kulbergs, president of Antique Automobile Club of Latvia.

External links

• http://www.motormuzejs.lv/