This is a very cool, very small museum with a permanent exhibition tracing the history of Jurmala as a seaside resort from the 1880s through Soviet times -- great original photographs and even movies, and a fabulous collection of clothes vacationers would have worn in the early part of the 20th century through the seventies.
And the building itself is very interesting. According to Inese Baranovska, the director of the equally cool Museum of Decorative Arts and Design in Riga's Old Town , the building now housing the Jurmala City Museum was a laundry and dry-cleaning facility in the 1960s. I don't know how much the renovation changed the building from the outside (the inside is really very nice) but I like the structure a lot -- and the side facing the main street looks a little bit like the prow of a ship.
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