Varnja Alive History Museum of Old Believers

Tel.: 52 40 410

Info Telefon: 74 52 925
Besucher-Email: varnja.raamatukogu@mail.ee

ATTENTION: OPEN ONLY ON PRIOR REQUEST.

"Varnja Alive History Museum is a permanent exposition of the way of life of Old Believers at the end of the 19th and in the beginning of the 20th century. The museum studies the life of three villages located at Lake Peipus; the greatest number of Estonians live in Varnja. The peculiar culture of Old Believers is an inseparable part of Estonian history. It is now the last opportunity to make efforts for preserving this fragment of culture. ” (Estonian Museums)
 

Estonian National Museum

teeninduskeskus@erm.ee
Tel.: +372 736 3000

Info Telefon: +372 736 3051
Besucher-Email: erm@erm.ee
http://www.erm.ee...

10:00-18:00 Wednesday-Sunday

Next to Tasku centre in city centre, take a bus number 7. It will make a stop in front of the museum. The main access is from the A-entrance.
From the railway station, take bus No. 25 which goes through the city centre (bus stops Kesklinn III, Turu, and Soola) and stops again in front of ERM, in parking lot A.

The Estonian National Museum was founded in Tartu in 1909 on the initiative and with the support of the nation – with the task to protect and develop the history and culture of Estonia.

As in many other European countries, primary importance was attached to preserving the old, fading peasant culture. Also considered essential was gathering and looking after artefacts contributing to better understanding of cultural development, archaeological findings, old coins, books, manuscripts and historical records.

Over time, a number of other museums, archives and libraries were founded, and the Estonian National Museum re-focused mainly on folk culture. Until World War II, the Estonian National Museum accumulated everything related to the Estonian national heritage. The fact that the museum had become a recognised memory institution by the 1930s was greatly supported also by contacts with foreign countries (Finland, Sweden, Germany, France etc), both in exchanging scientific literature, participating in study and research trips and scientific conferences and also through organising exhibitions outside Estonia.

Today, Estonian National Museum preserves the feeling of continuity and tradition. The museum is the generator and developer of cultural dialogue which links the past and the future. ENM`s role as a centre of ethnological research is to record, study and interpret culture as a way of life, taking into account its periodical, spatial and social diversity. The Museum's function as a contemporary cultural and tourist centre is to show our culture`s uniqueness and primeval power of creation to every Estonian and visitor.

The main emphasis of research and collecting is on Estonian everyday life in the second half of the 20th century as well as on the Estonian diaspora and audiovisual, archival and artifactual data from Finno-Ugric cultures.


 

Järvemuuseum

Info Telefon: +372 56 566 926
Besucher-Email: heli-anneli.villako@emu.ee

Avatud T-R 10.00-17.00, L 11.00-17.00 h

Nöo Museum

Tel.: 56 616 486

Info Telefon: 74 55 237
Besucher-Email: nklm@hot.ee
http://www.nvv.ee/index.php?page=vabal&i...

Mon–Fri 10–19, Sat 10–14 h.

"The museum deals with the history and cultural heritage of the parish and the rural municipality of Nöo. It gives an overview of the older history of the parish, its churches, cemeteries and manors, the schools having operated in the neighbourhood of Nöo and rural life throughout the times. The museum has published three volumes of a series called “Pages of the History of Nöo”.
Various art and photographic expositions are displayed in the exhibition hall. ” (Estonian Museums)

 

Farming Machines’ Museum of Heino Prost

Info Telefon: 73 51 401

15.04.–1.11: ATTENTION: OPEN ONLY ON PRIOR REQUEST.
Location: at Tartu-Elva Rd., Tartust 24 km

"Threshing machines, tractors, household engines and other farming implement used at farmsteads, collective and state farms are exposed at the museum. The exposition includes around 300 exhibits. ” (Estonian Museums)

 

The Estonian Agricultural Museum

Fax.: 74 12 598

Info Telefon: 74 12 397
Besucher-Email: epm@epm.ee
http://www.epm.ee...

15 May – 15 September 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
16 September – 14 May 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Closed only on legal holidays (01.01; 24.02; Good Friday; Easter Day; 01.05; the 1st day of Whitsuntide; 23.-24.06; 20.08; 24.-26.12)
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The museum is situated a few kilometres south of Tartu (7 km from the city centre along the Võru road).

"The expositions displayed in old renovated manor outbuildings introduce the farming habits of Estonian peasants, sowing, harvesting, cattle breeding, flax growing, apiculture, development of technology. We organise exhibition-fairs, family days, receptions for bridal couples, programmes basing on folk games and different activities offering first-hand experience of the past, be it woodcarving, flax pulling and processing, threshing or making flour.
The guests tired of city nose can rest in a tiny manor park. Schoolchildren can have fun on the swing. ” (Estonian Museums)

Display of old agricultural machinery in the Exhibition Square:

The agricultural machinery in the Exhibition Square attract attention from afar. The exhibits include steam-engines: the Swedish Munktells and the British Marshall manufactured at the beginning of the 20th century were trailed steam-engines. The self-propelling Lanz, Garrett and Lincoln were travelling together with the threshing machine from farm to farm in the times of old.

The oldest of the pre-war tractors International was manufactured in the USA in 1919. There are also some Fordson and Deering models from 1922, 1929, 1930 and 1938 displayed.

The collection of Soviet machinery includes wheeled tractors Universal (1950) and DT-20, caterpillar tractors KD-35 (1946) and HTZ Nati (1946), as well as plenty of land improvement equipment.
 

Tartu Aviation Museum

Info Telefon: 513 5490
Besucher-Email: mati.meos@fortumtartu.ee
http://www.lennundusmuuseum.ee...

1.5.–31.10. every day 10–18,
1.11.–30.4. edvance notice required
Advance notice required for groups, guided tours on preorder.

The idea of founding the museum - not so much concentrating on the history than on the idea of providing an aviation-based knowledge to young people interested in this field (!)

Exposition:
On the three floors of the museum building, on about a 220 m2 exposition area, one can see about 300 high-quality kits of the aircrafts essential from the point of view of the aviation history.

On the open exposition field there are helicopters Mi-2 (from Polish Air Forces) and Mi-8 (from Estonian Border Guard Aviation Group), a prop "Wilga"-35 (from the Estonian Defence League), a training aircraft TS-11 "Iskra", a attack-fighter Su-22M4, a fighter MiG-21 (all three from Polish Air Forces), a fighter JA Viggen 37 (from Swedish Air Forces), a fighter Mirage IIIRS (from Swiss Air Forces),a fighter
MiG-23 MLD,an attack aircraft Su-24,a training aircraft L-39 (all three from Ukrainian Ministry of Defence), and a passanger aircraft Tu-134A (from AS Tallinn Airport).

In May 2007, the Museum opens a new main building with 450m2 exposition area, a lecture room and other necessary rooms.

Picture: Su-24. Country of origin: Russia, obtained from Ukraine.

 

Hellenurme Veskimuusem

Info Telefon: +372 520 5142
Besucher-Email: mae@veskimuuseum.ee
https://www.elva.ee/muuseumid...