Jūrmala’s exhibition venues offer a diverse programme of art and culture throughout the year. They present both contemporary art exhibitions and displays that highlight the history of the resort town and the stories of notable personalities. The exhibition venues are located in historic wooden buildings, structures built in the second half of the 20th century, and in an example of post-war modernist architecture – Dubulti Art Station. Jūrmala’s museums and galleries regularly host both Latvian and international artists. Together, they form a dynamic cultural space with a broad perspective on artistic processes and the city’s identity.

Jūrmala Museum (Tirgoņu iela 29, Majori)​

• “In Flow” (03.07–13.09.) – an international contemporary art exhibition at the Jūrmala Museum that invites visitors to reflect on invisible processes such as intuition, consciousness, memory, encounters, transformation, and the inner flow of human experience. The exhibition brings together 23 Latvian and international artists from different generations, working across a wide range of media, including painting, graphic art, sculpture, glass and textile art, video, and installation. Inspired by Carl Gustav Jung’s ideas on the collective unconscious and the individual path of spiritual development, the exhibition also explores contemporary questions of mindful presence, human connection, and the ability to perceive the world beyond what can be rationally measured. Rather than offering definitive answers, In Flow encourages visitors to pause, ask questions, and engage with the experience of art.

• The audiovisual space “A Holidaymaker on the Way to Jūrmala” (until 14.02.2027) – an exhibition that invites visitors to experience the emotionally charged journey to the resort town across different eras – from horse-drawn carriages and steamboats to railway travel. Through sound, image and spatial scenography, the exhibition allows visitors to immerse themselves in the atmosphere of a historic journey and, through sensory experience, encounter the long-awaited sea.

Jūrmala Culture Centre (35 Jomas Street, Majori)

• Kaspars Migla’s photography exhibition A Walk Through Beautiful Jūrmala (until 7 September) – the exhibition invites visitors on a visual journey through Jūrmala of the first half of the 20th century, revealing the resort town as a vibrant, elegant and diverse destination. The photographs capture beach promenades, bathing establishments, sanatoriums, railway stations, cafés, concert gardens, boat piers, Ķemeri Park and the lively atmosphere of Jomas Street. Using the augmented reality app Old Jurmala, historical images are brought into dialogue with the present-day cityscape, offering an opportunity to see how Jūrmala has changed while preserving its unique resort character.

Bulduri Exhibition House (Muižas iela 6, Bulduri)

• “Latvian Seaside Flowers: The Poetic Landscape of Katrīna Reinovska at the End of the 19th Century” (09.07.–13.09.) – an exhibition dedicated to Bulduri resident Katrīna Reinovska (1845–1923), the first Latvian woman poet whose poems were published as a separate book. Her collection “Latvian Seaside Flowers”, published in 1875, became an important precursor to women’s entry into Latvian literature. The exhibition is conceived as a symbolic “poet’s room”, where the aesthetics of the late 19th century, poetic imagery, proximity to the sea and the legacy of a fishing family invite reflection on what it means to be the first.
• Visitors also have the opportunity to look into the studio and creative world of Jūrmala’s art legend Valdis Bušs (1924–2014), one of the most outstanding Latvian landscape painters of his time.

Aspazija House (Z. Meierovica prospekts 18/20, Dubulti)

• “A Woman’s Companion – the Handbag” (28.05–19.09) – an exhibition at Aspazija House that reveals the handbag as a practical, aesthetic and era-defining companion of women. The display features handbags from the 1880s to the period of the Second World War, made of silk, leather, silver, metal and other materials. The exhibition brings together objects from the collections of 12 Latvian museums and 27 private collections, including handbags that belonged to notable Latvian cultural figures – Elvīra Bramberga, Dace Akmentiņa, Emīlija Bērziņa, Elfrīda Pakule and Anna Brigadere.

Rainis and Aspazija Summer House (Pliekšāna iela 5/7, Majori)

• Maretta Staprāne-Bārlova’s exhibition “LAIMA. RAIMONDS: Portraits of Family Happiness” (until 19 October) – an interdisciplinary exhibition bringing art and neuroscience together. At its centre are 27 members of the Staprans family spanning four generations. The portraits combine each person’s appearance with memories, personally meaningful music, favourite colours and places, and brain activity recorded using EEG. The EEG data are not used to measure happiness scientifically; instead, they are transformed into visual parameters that shape the structure, intensity, detail and sharpness of the works. The exhibition connects Raimonds Staprans’ artistic legacy with a new generation’s perspective on family, identity and the experience of happiness.

Dubulti Art Station (Zigfrīda Meierovica prospekts 4, Dubulti)

• Exhibition “Ukrainian Sheriffs. Not to Lose Home” (11 September–2 October) – an exhibition by film director Roman Bondarchuk and Darya Averchenko exploring the Ukrainian village of Stara Zburjivka and its residents. The story centres on village mayor Viktor Maruniak and two local peacekeepers, known as the “village sheriffs”, whose daily lives Bondarchuk documented shortly before and after the occupation of Crimea. Combining previously unseen video diaries, materials from the Ukraine War Archive and excerpts from the documentary Ukrainian Sheriffs (2015), the exhibition reflects on community self-organisation, displacement caused by war and the struggle to maintain a connection with home.

“Art Shore. Oasis of Secrets” Exhibition | Dzintari Beach

From 3 July to 6 September, the sculpture and object exhibition “Art Shore. Oasis of Secrets” will be on view at Dzintari Beach near Turaidas Street, featuring works by Roberts Diners, Lilija Dinere, Matiass Jansons, Krzysztof Krzysztof from Poland, Mārtiņš Daksis, Kęstutis Benedikas from Lithuania and Artūrs Bogdanovs; the exhibition will open on 3 July at 4.00 p.m.

Open-Air Exhibition “Dzintari Concert Hall – 90” | Square by Dzintari Concert Hall (Turaidas Street 1) 

Until 31 October, the square by Dzintari Concert Hall hosts the open-air exhibition “Dzintari Concert Hall – 90”, tracing the venue’s development over more than a century – from the entertainment garden of the Edinburgh Kurhaus, with its balls, operettas and variety performances, to a major centre of symphonic music. The exhibition also follows the architectural evolution of the concert hall: the historic hall built in 1936, featuring wall paintings by Ansis Cīrulis, the modernist summer concert hall opened in 1960, and the additions introduced in the 21st century. Historical photographs and documentary materials reveal Dzintari as a place where resort culture, music and architecture have together shaped one of Latvia’s most recognisable cultural landmarks.