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Art Museum of Estonia
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| Address: Weizenbergi 34 / Valge 1, Tallinn,
Harjumaa |
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| Tel: +372 602 6000, Fax: +372 602 6002 |
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www.ekm.ee/kumu.php
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Art Museum of Estonia was founded on November 17th, 1919, but it was not
until 1921 that it got its first permanent building – the Kadriorg
Palace, built in the 18th century. In 1929 the palace was expropriated
from the Art Museum in order to rebuild it as the residence of the
President of Estonia. The Art Museum of Estonia was housed in several
different temporary spaces, until it moved back to the palace in 1946.
In September, 1991 the Kadriorg Palace was closed, because it had
totally deteriorated by then. At the end of the year the Supreme
Council of the Republic of Estonia decided to guarantee the
construction of a new building for the Art Museum of Estonia in
Kadriorg. Untill then the Knighthood House at Toompea Hill served as
the temporary main building of the Art Museum of Estonia. The
exhibition there was opened on April 1, 1993. Art Museum of Estonia
premanently closed down the exhibitions in that building in October
2005.
At the end of the 1970s, in the 1980s the first branches
of the Art Museum of Estonia were founded. Starting from the 1995 all
the branches offer different educational programmes for children and
young people. In 1996 the exhibition hall on the first floor
of Rotermann Salt Storage was opened, this branch was closed in May
2005. In summer 2000 the restored Kadriorg Palace was opened, but not
as the main building of the Art Museum of Estonia, but as a branch.
Kadriorg Art Museum now exhibits the foreign art collection of the Art
Museum of Estonia.
At present there are five active branches
of the Art Museum of Estonia: Kadriorg Art Museum (Kadriorg Palace and
Mikkel Museum), Niguliste Museum, Adamson-Eric Museum, and Kumu Art
Museum (the new main building of the Art Museum of Estonia).
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the first time during its nearly 100-year-old history, the Art Museum
of Estonia has a building that both meets the museum's requirements and
is worthy of Estonian art in its collections. Kumu Art Museum
is a multifunctional art museum that includes exhibition halls, an
auditorium that offers diverse possibilities, and an education centre
for children and art lovers of all ages. |
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The Tallinn Song Festival Grounds
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| Address: Narva maantee 95, Tallinn,
Harjumaa |
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| Tel: +372 611 21 02 |
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www.lauluvaljak.ee
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| The Tallinn Song Stage was built in 1959 for arranging the Song Festivals. The stage was meant to hold over 15 000 singers but it’s also possible to use it the other way – the performance will take place in front of the stage and audience is sitting on the stage.
Our indoor rooms can be used as a backstage area during the concerts but those are also suitable for all kind of events, parties, concerts, banquettes, fairs, exhibitions etc.
In the northern side of the song stage there is 42 m high fire tower, which is used during the famous Song Festivals. It is also opened for the public all year long.
Tallinna Lauluväljaku AS was founded in 1994 as a legal successor of Puhkeparkide Direktsioon (Leisure Parks Direction) and it’s a joint venture owned by the city of Tallinn. Tallinna Lauluväljaku AS is operating and administrating the state owned territory and city owned buildings and also providing wide variety of services to its clients.
Our corporations mission is to develop the territory and buildings so that it would be an attractive environment for entertainment, culture and leisure activities. Our aim is also to be an attractive sight for tourists, the best known and highly valued ground for arranging all kind of events. |
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Estonian History Museum - Maarjamäe Palace
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| Address: Pirita tee 56, Tallinn,
Harjumaa |
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| Tel: +372 6968 600 |
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www.ajaloomuuseum.ee/et/kuelastajale/918-maarjamaee-loss
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| Maarjamäe or Orlov’s Palace was commissioned by Count Anatoli Orlov-Davydov from St. Petersburg. The historicist limestone summer residence on the seashore was designed by architect Robert Gödicke. In the 1930s the building housed a magnificent restaurant – the Riviera Palace. In 1937 the Estonian Air force Flying School obtained the building, the Soviet Army took over in 1940. The restored palace opened its doors to the public as a branch museum of the Estonian History Museum in 1987.
Permanent and temporary exhibitions about Estonian history. |
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Museum of Occupation and of Fight for Freedom
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| Address: Toompea 8, Tallinn,
Harjumaa |
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| Tel: +372 668 0250, Fax: +372 668 0251 |
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www.okupatsioon.ee
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| The permanent exposition of the Occupations Museum, which was opened in 2003, reflects developments in Estonia from 1940 to 1991, when Estonia was alternately occupied by the Soviet Union, Germany, and by the Soviet Union once more. More or less thematic temporary exhibition are also organized. |
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Oleviste Church in Tallinn
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| Address: Lai 50, Tallinn,
Harjumaa |
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| Tel: +372 641 2241 |
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www.oleviste.ee
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| The church, named after the Norwegian king St Olaf, has the highest steeple in Estonia (123.7 m). Also the vaults in this church are very high (the nave is 31 m high). The church had its present look and size by the 16th century. From this church began the Reformation in Tallinn (1524) and the Historicism in Estonian church interior design after the fire of 1830. Built: XIV-XIX. |
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Padise Stronghold
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| Address: Padise, Padise,
Harjumaa |
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| Tel: +372 53 432 836 |
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www.padiseklooster.ee
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| Padise Stronghold, or the Old Stronghold (Vanalinnamägi) as it is popularly known, is a site of the Middle Iron Age (7th-8th centuries) hill fort sitting on a high promontory in the bend of the Kloostri River. The stronghold was surrounded by earthworks and a log fence; excavations at the site, however, have yielded but a few artefacts: a flat arrowhead, fragment of an ornamental bronze pin, a fire iron and pieces of clay pottery. The Padise Stronghold was not permanently inhabited, instead it was used for defensive purposes in the mould of other hill forts found in the coastal regions of Estonia. The location of the stronghold suggests connections with the sea and a harbour site. After all, in ancient times the sea cut into the land for more than one kilometre between Kurkse and Madise, forming a deep bight sheltered from western winds, which could have served as a suitable location for a harbour. Seeing that the road passing by Padise Monastery was already in existence at that time, it is quite likely that the road junction, offering a convenient location for commercial activities, was chosen for a harbour site. Subsequently a stronghold was built to protect the trading port.
On the other hand, the establishment of the Padise Stronghold has been associated with the formation of parishes: Padise emerged as the centre of the Vomentaga parish. Parishes (kihelkonnad) in those days simultaneously functioned as territorial defence subdivisions and administrative units based on a mutual agreement or covenant – kihl – of their members. One of the principal tasks of a parish was to protect its residents, and what better way to offer shelter and security than to build a stronghold. |
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Sea fortress Patarei
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| Address: Suur-Patarei 24, Tallinn,
Harjumaa |
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| Tel: +372 50 46 536 |
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www.patarei.org
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| Sea fortress Patarei (Battery) is a unique monument of architecture. The defence system completed in 1840 by order of Emperor Nicholas I has preserved its beautiful limestone facade.
With the development of technology the fortress lost its value as defence structure and became a barrack for soldiers from different army units.
Special period for Patarei arrived in 1919 when the fortress became a prison. Because of its two meter walls, Patarei suited very well for that purpose. It was also used by all foreign powers occupying Estonia.
Patarei has preserved its original Soviet interior that is of interest both to local people and tourists from abroad.
Year 2006 brough new winds to Patarei. Culture Park Patarei brings special atmosphere inside the walls of the fortress and around them. Concerts, parties, theatre performances, exhibitions, handicraft making will take place here.
Here you can also find the first seaside summer cafe of Tallin. |
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Peter the Creat's Cottage
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| Address: Mäekalda 2, Tallinn,
Harjumaa |
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| Tel: +372 6013136 |
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www.linnamuuseum.ee/peetrimaja/
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| Emperor Peter I (1672-1725) expanded the borders of the Russian Empire in the course of the Northern War and managed to annex the whole Estonian territory by the year 1710. Therefore the protection of the new border areas became the priority of the ruler and he paid a lot of attention to the reconstruction of ports in Tallinn and Paldiski and visited Tallinn several times.
Together with the site of the would-be palace, a summer estate and a 17th-century cottage that had belonged to town councillor von Drenteln were purchased for the emperor's use in 1713. The small cottage was enlarged with a wing and the outcome was a building with a hall, a kitchen and four rooms. The small summer residence was in use until the emperor's death. The succeeding rulers used the Palace of Kadriorg that had been completed only after Peter's death and the small building was neglected. The building was restored at the order of Emperor Alexander I after he visited Tallinn in 1804. The wing, however, was not. The kitchen was reconstructed and a dining room was built above it on the first floor that had not existed before. |
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Lutheran Church of Holy Spirit in Tallinn
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| Address: Pühavaimu 2, Tallinn,
Harjumaa |
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www.eelk.ee/tallinna.puhavaimu
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| The smallest among the medieval churches in Tallinn is situated near the Town Hall Square and has a rich collection of art work. An important winged altar (Berndt Notke, a master from Lübeck, 1483), a Renaissance pulpit (1597), galleries with Baroque carvings and paintings (Elert Thiele, XVII), a great number of old paintings and lights, modern stained-glass windows. Built: XIII/XIV. |
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The Town Hall building
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| Address: Raekoja plats 1, Tallinn,
Harjumaa |
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| Tel: +372 6 457 900 |
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www.tallinn.ee/raekoda
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| Tallinn Town Hall is the only surviving Gothic town hall in Northern Europe.
Built in the heart of Tallinn, next to a marketplace, the Town Hall has witnessed trade and social activities for over 700 years. It has still remained the most important representational building in town. |
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