A year ago, Estonia introduced a museum card similar to the one in Finland. It can pay for itself in just four museum visits. Krista Roolaid visited 123 museums during the year.
In Estonia has been using a similar museum card as in Finland for a year. From Tallinn Krista Roolaid visited 123 museums, but the card can become profitable with just four museum visits during the year.
The entrance fee to the Maritime Museum, which will reopen in May, at Lentosatama on Tallinn’s north shore is 20 euros. Admission to the Tallinn television tower, the highest external platform in Northern Europe, costs 19 euros, the art museum Kumu costs 14 euros. The ticket to the Estonian National Museum in Tartu, built on a former Soviet fighter airstrip, is 15 euros.
In the four popular museums, the admission tickets alone will easily cost around 70 euros. The Estonian museum card costs 60 euros. The system works on the same principle as in Finland. You can visit museums as much as you want during the year.
(However, if you only go on a day cruise in Tallinn once a year, you can get the same benefit at a cheaper price Tallinn cardilla.)
The Estonian museum card is only in digital form, but works in the same way as the Finnish card.
What the more museums Krista Roolaid visited, the more excited she became.
At first, Roolaid was supposed to visit the most interesting museums. He traveled by train to Viljandi to the Kondanen art center. The trip was so successful that next he took a bus to Pärnu, then to Tartu.
When Roolaid was looking for the KGB museum in Tartu, the phone rang. The Estonian museum card company had noticed that someone was using the card an extraordinary amount. There was a fear of abuse.
Roolaid had been struck by a competitive spirit. He visited 16 museums in Tartu.
From Tartu, Roolaid continued by bus to small villages, such as Kääpaa’s playful Kalevipoja museum, where you can get to know the characters of the Estonian national epic. For trips to the Ruhnu museum on Estonia’s Farthest Island and closer to Kihnu Island, Roolaid asked for the help of a travel agency. A car had to be borrowed for museums in remote villages in southern Estonia.
The Estonian History Museum in Maarjamäki is a children’s favorite museum thanks to its large playroom.
Krista Roolaid knows that the Estonian History Museum in Maarjamäki Castle in Tallinn is quiet even on Sundays.
Rudders has promised to present five of his favorites, but the choice is difficult.
In the small notepad, museums are listed by subcategory. There are 15 literary and 6 musical museums. For men who don’t want to go to a museum, he recommends the A. Le Coq beer museum in Tartu.
Roolaid felt anxious in the KGB prison cellar museums in Tartu and Tallinn, but hopes that visitors will visit them.
“Maybe they help us understand why we are sometimes suspicious,” he says.
The following five museums are Roolaid’s favorite destinations.
1. Museum of the University of Tartu
The museum of the University of Tartu is located in the former cathedral.
Tartu the university museum is on the ruins of the medieval cathedral in Toomemäki Park. The museum is the oldest in Estonia, and there is also the oldest elevator in Estonia, from 1928. The wide spiral staircase and the white concert and banquet hall on the ground floor dazzle.
The exhibitions tell about education, medicine and student life, among other things.
“With the help of education, we have gained freedom,” says Roomägi.
Tartu University Museum. Lossi 25, Tartu. Open in summer, Tue–Sun, 10 a.m.–6 p.m. 10 e.
2. Tartu Toy Museum
Tartu’s toy museum has an exhibition of toys from 48 European countries this year, when Tartu is the European capital of culture.
“Wonderful a place that reminds me of childhood. Me and my children have played with the same toys.”
It’s also fun to guess which toy represents which European country: the kick sled ie kick-sled Finland, Katto Kassinen and Peppi Sweden, Rubik’s cube Hungary, Pinocchio Italy, but Roolaid would not have guessed that the picture domino is from Lithuania.
Tartu Toy Museum and Theater House. Lutsu 8, Tartu. Open: Wed–Sun 11 am–6 pm. 9 e.
3. A. H. Tammsaari home museum and literature street
Anton Hansen Tammsaari home museum in Kadriorg district in Tallinn. There are several writers’ homes nearby.
“In a house it’s simply good to be,” says Roolaid.
Anton Hansen Tammsaare (1878–1940) on Väinö Castle a comparable classic and also Roolaid’s favorite author.
Among other things, the classic series, Truth and Justice 1–5, has been translated into Finnish. The last time Roolaid read Tammsaari’s letters to her daughter.
The house is located on Koidula street, which is a literary street.
At the end of Koidula street is a writer’s house built at the end of the Soviet era. There is Dead Untin (1944 – 2005) housing museum. In the adjacent Kadriorg park, in the former castle lord’s house, there is Eduard Vilden (1865 – 1933) kotimuseo.
AH Tammsaari home museum. Koidula 12a, Tallinn. Tue–Sat 11–17 (Wed 18). 5 e.
4. Estonian Open Air Museum
The newest building of the outdoor museum is an apartment building of Järvesalu collective farm. The apartment building was built for barn workers in the village of Räbi in southern Estonia in 1964.
Here Between traditional country houses by the sea, Krista Roolaid already played as a child. Now he goes to Kolu kievari to eat mulgi porridge.
Porridge is named after the southern Estonian region of Mulgimaa. You can hardly get it in the restaurants in the center. It is made from barley groats and potato, usually seasoned with pork and onion.
A couple of years ago, an apartment building was opened in the area, the apartments of which tell about the life of the collective farm workers from the 1960s to the 2010s.
Roolaid enjoys spending time outside between the houses. There are sheep and horses in the area.
Open Air Museum of Estonia. Vabaohmuuseum tee 12, Tallinn. Open in summer time every day from 10 am to 8 pm. 16 e.
5. Kondasen center in Viljandissa
Kondanen center has 12.5. until the exhibition of Daniel Hahta from Turku, and an exhibition of Eastern European outsider art will open at the end of the month.
Outsider-the art center is named after the Viljandian Paul Kondasen (1900–1985) according to Kondase was a teacher who came from outside art education and circles. He rose to international fame for his naive works he painted as a retiree.
After visiting the museum, Roolaid bought a brush and painted berries during his vacation in Bulgaria. In the city of Viljandi, some of the concrete pigs are actually strawberries. The inspiration is Kondanen’s painting Strawberry eaters.
Kondasen center. Pikk 8, Viljandi. Open during the summer, Mon–Sun from 11 am to 6 pm. 5 e.
Correction 8.5. at 9:15 a.m.: You can’t even take photos with a museum card, as you could conclude from the article earlier.