- Riga Zoo
- Chocolate Museum "Laima"
- Museum of the History of Riga and Navigation
- Motor Museum
- Center for Entertaining Science "Miracles"
- Akvalande water park
- Adventure Park "Mezhakakis"
- Lido Recreation Center
Would you like to receive more information on the topic: “What to visit in Riga with children?” In the capital of Latvia, in addition to outdoor playgrounds, there are other interesting places that can interest a child.
Riga Zoo
At guests' service - House of Giraffes (4 individuals), House of Flamingos, House of Kangaroos, Tropical House (75 animals - frogs, snakes, crocodiles, turtles and others) … Children will surely like the contact mini-zoo, whose inhabitants can be stroked and fed … And the kids will have the opportunity to ride a pony and even in a carriage.
Ticket prices: adults - 6 euros, children (4-18 years old) - 4 euros.
Chocolate Museum "Laima"
In the museum, guests will be offered to inspect the exhibits (the exposition tells about the history of the chocolate industry in the Baltics), try to make their own chocolate and taste it.
Prices: visiting the museum - 7 euros / adults, 5 euros / schoolchildren, 3 euros / children 3-6 years old; excursion + classes in the chocolate workshop - 16 euros / adults, 14 euros / children 3-18 years old.
Museum of the History of Riga and Navigation
The museum fund consists of 500,000 items (80 collections): everyone will have a chance to admire navigation instruments, details of sea transport, ship models, flags and ship standards …. It will be interesting for children to look into the Silver Cabinet (about 300 items of the 17-20th centuries are exhibited here), Marta Alberinga's Cabinet (there are paintings by Latvian artists, glass and porcelain items, household items, fans, jewelry and dance costumes) and the Cross Gallery (here you will be able to see objects in the form of stone decor from the disappeared Riga buildings, tombstones, cannons, a plaster copy of the monument to Peter I).
Ticket prices: 4, 3 euros / adults, 1, 4 euros / students, 0, 7 euros / children.
Motor Museum
It is worth coming here to see mopeds, motorcycles and cars of the 19th and 20th centuries (there are such exhibitions as "Military equipment", "Cars from the Kremlin garages" and others). In addition, the museum invites children to take part in interesting activities and games, as well as learn about famous personalities who have helped shape the history of the automotive world.
Tickets cost 4 euros.
Center for Entertaining Science "Miracles"
Children will love the center's interactive exhibits in the form of magnetic plasticine, levitating water, a crooked room (small people get tall), a giant camera, Tesla's generator … In addition, the Miracles Center hosts interesting activities such as “What is Sound?” “Robots” and “Air Missiles”, as well as performances by illusionists (they demonstrate magic tricks).
Prices: regular ticket (4+ years) - 7 euros (at the weekend - 8 euros), family ticket - 21 euros (at the weekend - 23 euros); the cost of classes is 40-60 euros (it is advisable to attend classes with a group of 15+ people, then the entrance ticket + lesson will cost 8-9 euros).
Akvalande water park
Akvalande has a children's, 25- and 100-meter swimming pool, a bath complex (Russian, Turkish, Chukchi), a jacuzzi, a Dolphin bar (it is worth trying delicious desserts and herbal cocktails), slides of different heights.
Prices: adults - 8-10 euros, children - 5 euros.
Adventure Park "Mezhakakis"
It offers about 80 obstacles (swings, logs, stairs, stretched ropes and nets) on 6 tracks (the main sections are located at a height of 1-15 m; each track starts on the ground and ends with a downhill on a special roller along a cable):
- Children's (yellow) track: children have to overcome 9 simple obstacles at a height of 0.5-1 m;
- Green (warm-up) track: 12 obstacles for children are built at a height of 2 meters, higher than 1, 1 m (this route is mandatory for all visitors who are going to go to other, more difficult tracks);
- Green + (13 obstacles): it is more interesting than the warm-up track and is suitable for children, 1, 1-1, 4 m in height;
- Blue track: this track has 12 obstacles at a height of 4 meters;
- Red track: a route with 15 obstacles at a height of 9 m, it will require a lot of physical effort;
- Black track: the strong and the brave will be able to try to overcome 10 obstacles at a height of 10-15 m.
Prices (3 hours of trails in the park): adults - 17 euros, children under 17 - 10 euros (only yellow track - 5 euros, only green track - 7 euros).
Lido Recreation Center
In addition to a pastry shop, a bistro and a restaurant, the center has trampolines, an interactive shooting range, a playground, a 5D attraction, sports rooms, a children's auto-town, and various carousels. Here you can also go for a ride on a train or a pony, and in winter - ice skating on a skating rink (children - 1, 5-2, 2 euros / hour, adults - 2, 2-2, 9 euros / hour).
In the capital of Latvia, vacationers with children can stay at the Neiburgs Hotel, Radisson Blu Elizabete Hotel and other hotels.
