The Tukums Art Museum is a wonderful place for pupils and families to learn about Latvian painting, the works of notable artists, and art history. The museum features art exhibitions and interactive displays, and visitors can participate in creative workshops and take an educational walking tour of Tukums’ Old Town.
🎨 About the Tukums Art Museum
The Tukums Art Museum is known for its outstanding collection of Latvian art, which artist Leonīds Āriņš (1907–1991) began building in the first half of the 1930s. Inspired by him, many prominent Latvian artists of that time donated their works to the museum.
The museum’s collection includes works by Jānis Rozentāls, Jānis Valters, Vilhelms Purvītis, Jēkabs Kazāks, Ģederts Eliass, Leo Svemps, Voldemārs Tone, Konrāds Ubāns, Uga Skulme, Jānis Tīdemanis, and many other artists. The most significant works in the painting collection are those by three artists from Tukums—Anšs Artums (1908–1997), Leonīds Āriņš (1907–1991), and Kārlis Neils (1906–1991).
The museum regularly organizes exhibitions of works by Latvian artists. The art collection is also available for viewing upon special request.
🖼️ Exhibitions
Virtual Exhibition “The Tukums Art Museum Through the Ages”
On the touchscreen, you can view more than 250 paintings by 110 artists from the Tukums Art Museum’s collection, as well as gain insight into the museum’s history.
You can digitally create an electronic card from fragments of paintings—virtually select several fragments and combine them into a single image. You can email your own artwork to yourself or a loved one and share it on social media.
Exhibition “Āriņš’s Room”
This exhibition is dedicated to Leonīds Āriņš (1907–1991), a passionate dreamer, draftsman, painter, and founder of the Tukums Art Museum.
He devoted a large part of his life and heart to the museum, yet his true passion was painting.
Āriņš developed his distinctive painterly style through a constant, years-long process of exploration. By constantly grappling with various artistic challenges, seeking out new ideas, and studying the works of French painters, Āriņš came closer to his true nature and his views on art and its purpose.
One of the motifs that Āriņš kept returning to in his paintings was furrows. “Initially, this theme is an impression of what he saw in nature, then a symbol of a grain field – like the striped pattern of a blanket or grandmother’s blanket, but the sun over the furrows as a source of life,” says art historian Gundega Cēbere about Āriņš’s furrow theme.
🖌️ Current exhibitions
Herbert Ernests Siliņas 100
📅 On view until November 15, 2026.
The Tukums Art Museum is hosting the exhibition “Herberts Ernests Siliņš 100”, dedicated to the centenary of the outstanding Latvian painter Herberts Siliņš (1926–2001).
🎓 Museum pedagogical classes
Participants in the “Let’s Copy Paintings” workshop, using the museum’s collection of paintings, individual works from the collection, and art exhibitions, learn to view, analyze, and understand works of art, as well as gain inspiration for their own creative work.
Age groups: For pupils in grades 1–4, 5–9, and 10–12.
Latvian School Bag program: Yes.
“I began my journey in art with drawing. Even as a child…”—so said Leonīds Āriņš, founder of the Tukums Art Museum.
For pupils, demonstrations and visual aids not only provide information about the museum’s current exhibition and the museum as a cultural institution of value, but also help them deepen their understanding of the essence of painting, graphic art, and sculpture.
The lesson reinforces cross-curricular skills by integrating listening, observing, reading, collaboration, and information-searching competencies.
Age group: For pupils in grades 1–4, 5–9, and 10–12.
Latvian School Bag: Yes.
The goal of the interactive lesson “Find Your Way Through Tukums in Time and Space: In the Footsteps of Art!” is to introduce pupils to Tukums artists, their works, and historically significant sites in the city.
At the beginning of the lesson, maps of Tukums’ Old Town are given to pupils at the museum, with a marked route and tasks. While solving tasks related to art, math, and the natural sciences, pupils take a walk through the streets of Tukums along the designated route.
Upon returning to the museum, program participants complete tasks related to the current exhibition, check the accuracy of their answers, and discuss the insights gained during the session.
The topics covered in the session are tailored to the group’s interests.
Age group: Pupils in grades 5–12.
🏛️ Art repository
Upon special request, it is possible to view the Art Collection, which includes works by Janis Rozentāls, Jānis Valters, Vilhelms Purvītis, Jēkabs Kazāks, Ģederts Elias, Leo Svemps, Voldemārs Tone, Konrāds Ubāns, Ugas Skulme, Jānis Tīdemanis and many other artists.
🎟️ Prices
Admission Fee
- Forpupils – free
- Adults – 1.50 EUR
- Preschoolers and chaperones accompanying school groups (up to two) – free
Museum tours
Guided tour for up to 20 people (1 hour):
- In Latvian – 20.00 EUR
- In a foreign language – 22.00 EUR
Themed tour for up to 20 people (1 hour):
- In Latvian – 24.00 EUR