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The article introduces the text written by the Baltic art historian Wilhelm Neumann (1849-1919) on the Riga City Art Museum (now Latvian National Museum of Art) opened in 1905. It was first published in the collected articles edition 'Museumkunde' published in Berlin 1905. The text is translated and introduced by art historian Edvarda Smite