Riga’s Museum of Decorative Arts and Design occupies the former St George’s Church. Its medieval masonry and seventeenth-century warehouse timbers frame Latvian decorative arts and design from the late nineteenth century onward.
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The massive timber supports inside Riga’s Museum of Decorative Arts and Design were not made for a modern gallery. They belong to an earlier life of the building, when the former St George’s Church was divided into storehouses. Today the timbers stand beside Latvian textiles, ceramics and design, connecting a medieval shell with objects made for changing ways of life.
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- The former castle chapel was mentioned in the Chronicle of Henry in 1209.
- The building was restored for a museum between 1986 and 1989.
- Albums of Rīgas audums silk samples entered the museum as a gift in 2009.
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