The Estonian Open Air Museum (Eesti Vabaohumuuseum) is the principal ethnographic museum of Estonia and one of the largest open-air museums of vernacular architecture in northern Europe, occupying a seventy-two-hectare wooded coastal park at Rocca al Mare on the western edge of the Estonian capital, around eight kilometres from the historic centre of Tallinn. The museum was founded in 1957 and presents a comprehensive sample of the traditional rural architecture and material culture of the Eston.....

Fat Margaret (Paks Margareeta) is a sixteenth-century cannon tower built into the medieval city wall at the northern edge of the old town of Tallinn, occupying a prominent position on Pikk street immediately inside the Great Coastal Gate at the historic seaward entrance to the medieval merchant city. The tower is one of the most distinctive surviving pieces of medieval military architecture anywhere on the eastern shores of the Baltic and houses the principal exhibition gallery of the Estonian M.....

The Great Guild Hall (Suurgildi hoone) is the most important surviving secular Gothic building anywhere in the old town of Tallinn, occupying a prominent corner site at Pikk 17 on the lower stretch of Pikk street between the Town Hall Square and the Great Coastal Gate. The Hall served as the meeting place and ceremonial headquarters of the Great Guild of Tallinn - the principal trade association of the German-speaking merchants of the medieval city - from 1410 until the Russian imperial dissolut.....

The KGB Prison Cells (KGB vanglakambrid) is the preserved underground interrogation and prison facility of the Soviet-era state security service in central Tallinn, occupying the cellar levels of a five-storey neoclassical apartment building at Pagari 1 that served as the principal headquarters of the Estonian SSR NKVD and subsequently the KGB from 1940 to 1991. The cells were opened to the public as a memorial museum in 2017 and are operated by the Estonian Vabamu Museum of Occupations and Free.....

Kumu Art Museum (Kumu Kunstimuuseum) is the principal building of the Estonian National Art Museum (Eesti Kunstimuuseum) and the largest dedicated art museum anywhere in the Baltic states, occupying a striking purpose-built modern museum building on the lower slopes of Lasnamae limestone escarpment in the Kadriorg district of eastern Tallinn. The museum opened in 2006 and was the first new national museum building constructed by Estonia after the restoration of independence in 1991. The buildin.....

Lennusadam (Seaplane Harbour) is the principal maritime museum of Estonia and one of the most architecturally distinctive museum buildings anywhere in northern Europe, occupying a converted early-twentieth-century seaplane hangar complex on the Tallinn waterfront in the Kalamaja district, around one and a half kilometres north-west of the medieval old town. The museum opened in 2012 as a branch of the Estonian Maritime Museum and has rapidly become the single most visited museum in Estonia. The.....

The Maarjamae History Centre (Maarjamae lossi ajaloo keskus) is one of the principal historic-museum sites of the Estonian History Museum (Eesti Ajaloomuuseum), occupying a romantic nineteenth-century neo-Gothic seaside palace and an adjoining purpose-built underground exhibition complex on the wooded Maarjamae bluff at Pirita tee 56, around four kilometres east of central Tallinn on the road to Pirita beach and the Tallinn Olympic sailing centre. The principal palace was built in 1874 as a sum.....

The Skywheel of Tallinn is the largest observation Ferris wheel in the Baltic states and a unique rooftop ride in Europe, installed on the upper roof terrace of the T1 Mall shopping centre at Peterburi tee 2 on the eastern edge of central Tallinn, around three kilometres from the medieval old town. The wheel opened to the public on the 11th of April 2019 and is the first rooftop observation wheel anywhere in Europe - all other previous installations of this type having been built in Taiwan and J.....

Tallinn Food and Drink Tours is the marketing umbrella under which several specialist culinary-tour operators run guided walking tours through the historic old town and the converted industrial Telliskivi quarter of the Estonian capital. The tours combine guided walking commentary on the food and beverage history of the city with sequential stops at three to six selected restaurants, cafes, bars or distilleries, with a tasting portion at each stop. The principal tour-operator office sits at Nigu.....

The Vabamu Museum of Occupations and Freedom is the principal Estonian museum dedicated to the long twentieth-century period of foreign occupation of the country between 1940 and 1991 and to the restoration of Estonian independence. The museum occupies a modern purpose-built building at Toompea 8 on the slopes leading up to the upper Toompea Hill, immediately below the medieval city wall and within walking distance of both the medieval old town and the parliamentary buildings on the upper hill. .....