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found 10, page 1/1: 1 St Elizabeth’s Lutheran Church in Pärnu Address: Nikolai 22, Pärnu, Pärnumaa Location Tel: +372 44 31 381 Send e-mail www.eliisabet.ee The Baroque church is named after the Russian Empress Elizabeth (architect Joachim Hinrich Güterbock, tower built by Johann Heinrich Wülbern) and was extended in 1893. Pseudo-Gothic altar and pulpit (1850); the altar painting “The Resurrection” comes from Rotterdam (1854). Built: 1750. > Lydia Koidula Memorial Museum Address: Jannseni 37, Pärnu, Pärnumaa Location Tel: +372 44 33 313 Send e-mail www.parnumuuseum.ee/koidula-museum Koidula museum is located at Pärnu Ülejõe schoolhouse. The building was constructed in 1850 and has a unique interior solution. It was the home of Johann Voldemar Jannsen and the editorial office of the Perno Postimees newspaper until 1863, now it is under protection as a historical monument. Jannsen’s elder daughter, poetess Lydia Koidula grew up in the house. It is the main task of the museum to keep alive the memory of L. Koidula and J. V. Jannsen and introduce their life and work in the context of the period of national awakening in Estonia through the permanent exposition of the museum. > Museums Punane torn Address: Hommiku 11, Pärnu, Pärnumaa Location Tel: et.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A4rnu_ordulinnus > Orthodox Church of the Transfiguration of Our Lord Address: Aia 5, Pärnu, Pärnumaa Location Tel: +372 44 43 532 Send e-mail www.teelistekirikud.ekn.ee/2013/maakond.php?mk=Pärnu An Estonian Orthodox Church in the Old Russian style (architect Vladimir Lunski, master builder K. Klein). The initiator of the building process was a member of the national movement, archpriest Mihkel Suigussar. Icons, mural paintings depicting stories from the New Testament (1927). Built: 1904. > Pärnu Mudaravila Address: Sääse 7, Pärnu, Pärnumaa Location Tel: > Pärnu Museum Address: Aida 3, Pärnu, Pärnumaa Location Tel: +372 443 3231 Send e-mail www.parnumuuseum.ee Pärnu Museum introduces the history of Pärnu county and town. > Museums Pärnu New Art Museum Address: Esplanaadi 10, Pärnu, Pärnumaa Location Tel: +372 44 30 772 Send e-mail www.chaplin.ee Anthropology is the keyword of the collection and activities of Pärnu New Art Museum. Its huge collection of films and videos illustrates the culture of different peoples and the fine art collection includes a number of marginal pieces of art created in prisons, at mental asylums and at the homes of the disabled people. The museum is famous for the traditional international annual exhibition of nudes „Man and Woman“; it is also well-known for conferences, film festivals and the shortest summer night musical contests. > Museums Pärnu old town Address: Pärnu, Pärnu, Pärnumaa Location Tel: > Pärnu Jaagupi School Museum Address: Kalli maantee 1, Pärnu-Jaagupi, Pärnumaa Location Tel: +372 44 97 068 Send e-mail jaagupi.parnu.ee > Museums St James’ Lutheran Church in Pärnu-Jaagupi Address: Kirikumõis, Pärnu-Jaagupi, Pärnumaa Location Tel: Send e-mail www.parnujakobi.ee The youngest medieval church in Estonia, the west tower added in 1888 (spire from 1907, architect Rudolf von Engelhardt). A carved baroque pulpit (Elert Thiele), the altarpiece “Christ on the Cross” (Ants Laikmaa’s copy of the painting of the Eduard von Gebhardt, 1900). Built: 1534, XIX. > 1

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