Even before the ideas of freedom of equality and fraternity were finally destroyed in Paris, the very foundations of absolutism, where the state is king, the wealthy burghers of Riga, imbued with ideas of education, founded the museum of the city’s history, which is still one of the oldest museums in the city’s history in Europe. It was created in 1773 and its exposition tells the history of Riga from the day of its foundation until 1940. The museum occupies the premises of the former Dome Monastery and adjoins the Dome Cathedral. Its foundation is due to the family of the Riga city doctor N. Martini and directly to his grandson N. von Giemsel. It was on the basis of their private collection of coins and objects that archaeologists created a museum. Translated with Google Translate