Vörahansu Home Museum

Fax.: 50 155 655

Info Telefon: 48 97 965
Besucher-Email: vorahansu@hot.ee

Sillaotsa Farm Museum

Info Telefon: 48 97 764
Besucher-Email: velisesillaotsa@hot.ee
http://www.hot.ee/velisesillaotsa...

Open all year round 10-18 h.
NB! To visit the Farm Museum, you need at least two hours.

"The museum, established in 1982 by a researcher on native places and a nature conservationist Aleksei Parnabas, introduces the life and traditions of Velise rural municipality in old Läänemaa from the second half of the 19th century until recent past. One can get a detailed picture of flax growing, harvesting and scutching. An Estonian breed horse is of great help to the museum staff at the events organised to celebrate various days in the popular calendar. A functional hot head BMW engine that was manufactured in 1926 can also be seen working at the museum. Over 170 different species of trees and bushes grow in the dendroparks of the museum that lies in municipal ownership of Märjamaa rural municipality. ” (Estonian Museums)

After crossing the footbridge you will be on the territory of the museum (opened in 1982) and you can take a look at the buildings, exhibits and the dendro park.

The farmhouse including a barn (built in 1914) was the birthplace of the last resident of Sillaotsa farm, Aleksander Parnabas (1919-1986), who established the museum.

Most of the agricultural implements shown here are the handwork of local masters.

Flax, cultivated on the loamy soils of Velise and Vigala, was appreciated also outside Estonia. Flax cultivating tools date back to the beginning of the century and are still unstable.

In the living room there are photographic materials about the last residents of the farm and also handicrafts made by farm mistresses of different generations.

In the back room, we find master's library, which contains fiction, agricultural textbooks and his own research works on his native place.

The reconstructed threshing-room expresses the owner's way of living - mixture of the archaic and the modern.
The so-called "Whitsun swing-party", held in the birch grove at Sillaotsa since 1987, is a new tradition.


 

Järvakandi Glass Museum

Wed–Sat 11–18

The "Glass Museum is located in the first workmen’s dwelling of Järvakandi glasswork that was constructed in 1879. The dwelling was removed from the territory of the factory to the centre of Järvakandi. The permanent exposition of the museum is divided into two – the history of glass industry and the history of Järvakandi. The first part of the exposition of glass industry is designed as medieval glasswork where manual glass boiling and the making of glass objects are demonstrated. In the second hall the mechanical production of glass objects is introduced. The last room is furnished as a worker’s apartment, the way it looked like in the building in the 1920’s. ” (Estonian Museums)

 

Mahtra Peasantry Museum

Fax.: 48 44 162

Info Telefon: 48 44 199
Besucher-Email: mahtram@mahtramuuseum.ee
http://www.mahtramuuseum.ee...

1.5.–30.9. Every day 10–18,
1.10.–30.4. Mon–Fri 10–18 h.

„We must stand out for justice together as one – without being afraid and without succumbing,“ said Ants Tertsius in „Mahtra War“, a novel by E. Vilde. Today’s Mahtra Museum is not only the museum of Mahtra War but also the central museum of the county of Rapla. The place gives an impression of the life of Estonian peasants in the 19th century. The Atla-Eeru tavern building of the museum is the only preserved peasant tavern in Estonia. It has now become a cosy place where children’s’ programmes are organised. A blood field, the tragic scene of the final act of Mahtra War is located in the Mahtra battlefield.
Come and see the picturesque spots of Juuru and discover the neighbourhood where the tough Estonian men fought. ” (Estonian Museums)

The museum was opened in 1969 and calls more than 33640 objects its own.

 

Hageri Museum

Fax.: 50 51 507

Info Telefon: 48 97 461

Mon–Thu 10–14

"Hageri Museum introduces life in the parish of Hageri from the past to the present day. The museum holds a permanent exposition of the renown and acknowledged persons from the parish of Hageri and introduces the tools of the forefathers.
The museum is located in Hageri drugstore building. The Church of Hageri and a karstic area with gorges are located nearby. ” (Estonian Museums)

 

Vesiveski Museum

Info Telefon: 48 32 723