The Riga Porcelain Museum was established in 2001 to preserve the porcelain collection of the state porcelain manufacturing enterprise ”Rīgas Porcelāns”, which due to economic situation was closed down.

     The museum of the enterprise “Rīgas Porcelāns” was established already in the 1960s, but after the enterprise was liquidated, the activities of the museum stopped. In 1997 a commission of experts, appointed by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Latvia, carried out the assessment of the collection of the former museum. In the year 2000 the collection was taken over by the Riga City. In 2001 the Riga Porcelain Museum (RPM) was founded. RPM is a state authority museum, which is subjected to the Riga City Council Culture Department.

     The museum was opened for public on October 30, 2001.