Riga Art Nouveau district hosts a costume morning on 11 October

Riga Art Nouveau district (Rigas jugendstila rajons) hosted the Children’s Morning with Cat Albert on 11 October 2026 at the Riga Art Nouveau Centre in Riga, Latvia. The family programme connected Art Nouveau fashion with the exhibition Costume Art Nouveau. Vita Millere, which ended on the same day.

Children’s Morning brought costume history to Alberta Street

The museum scheduled the programme for 10.30am and 1pm on 11 October. Its subject was women’s clothing in the Art Nouveau period, with children invited to examine the exhibition and consider how silhouettes, materials, colours and decorative details shaped clothing.

The programme combined looking, touching and making. Children could handle samples of velvet, wool, silk, cotton and lace, while the museum presented tools linked to costume design and sewing, including a tape measure, wooden pattern templates, tailor’s chalk and thimbles. A historic Singer sewing machine was also part of the museum setting. The organiser’s programme divided the activities between children aged three to six and those aged seven to eleven.

Riga Art Nouveau Centre links the event to its 1903 interior

The first group worked with colouring sheets based on costumes in the exhibition. The later session used paper costume elements to dress a cardboard doll, followed by a short quiz about the museum visit. That structure placed the event inside the museum’s broader presentation of early twentieth-century domestic life rather than treating fashion as a separate display.

The museum occupies Alberta Street 12, a building completed in 1903 as the private home of architect Konstantins Peksens, designed together with Eizens Laube. Its preserved apartment interior contains rooms, furnishings and objects associated with life in Riga during the period. The museum describes its spiral staircase, plant and animal reliefs and authentic apartment rooms as central features of the building. Its museum history and interior guide records the building’s architectural and domestic context.

The 11 October programme sat within Riga’s protected centre

Riga’s Art Nouveau architecture is concentrated in the Quiet Centre, where Alberta Street forms one of the best-known groups of early twentieth-century facades. The street was built between 1901 and 1908, while the historic centre of Riga was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1997 with its Art Nouveau architecture specifically recognised as a defining feature.

The relationship between the event and the building was direct: children studied historic clothing in an apartment whose restored rooms preserve the decorative language of the same era. The programme therefore connected the exhibition’s costumes with the staircase, rooms and household objects that place them within a lived interior.

Visiting Riga Art Nouveau district: what travellers from Western Europe should know

• The Children’s Morning with Cat Albert took place on 11 October 2026 at the Riga Art Nouveau Centre, Alberta Street 12, with sessions scheduled for 10.30am and 1pm.
• The programme was a special family event linked to the Costume Art Nouveau. Vita Millere exhibition, which ran until 11 October 2026. The museum requested advance registration because places were limited.
• The museum is in Riga’s Quiet Centre on Alberta Street, an Art Nouveau area north of the Old Town. The district can be reached on foot from the Old Town.
• The visit combines an apartment interior with a digital presentation about Riga’s Art Nouveau architecture, design and early twentieth-century daily life.
• Latvia’s official language is Latvian and its national currency is the euro.

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Frequently asked questions about Riga Art Nouveau district

When did the Children’s Morning take place at Riga Art Nouveau district?

The Children’s Morning with Cat Albert took place on 11 October 2026 at Riga Art Nouveau Centre, with sessions scheduled for 10.30am and 1pm.

What is Riga Art Nouveau district?

It is the Art Nouveau quarter in Riga’s Quiet Centre, centred on streets such as Alberta Street and including the Riga Art Nouveau Centre.

Where is Riga Art Nouveau district and how do you get there?

The museum is at Alberta Street 12 in Riga’s Quiet Centre, within walking distance of the Old Town.