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City Life Museum

Urban stories revealed

Tallinn’s City Life Museum (Tallinna linnaelumuuseum), contains a superbly arranged collection brought to life by the inclusion of costumed wax figures, medieval street sounds and English-language texts.

A cutaway model of a sixteenth-century merchant’s house reveals how these buildings once functioned, with vast cranes jutting from facades hauling merchandise to the upper storeys to be warehoused before being re-exported or sold in the shop space at ground level.

Original furnishings and costumes feature in a display of nineteenth-century interiors, while events of the twentieth century unfold through a collection of posters and photographs (including one of an enormous Stalin poster draped incongruously over the facade of the Town Hall), and videos document the growth of the independence movement.

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Vene 17

Open: May - September daily 11:00 - 18:00; October - April Tuesday 11:00 - 19:00, Wednesday - Saturday 11:00 - 18:00, Sunday 11:00 - 16:00.

Tickets: €6

City Life Museum

1550–1850 Swedes & Russians

1850–1914 National Awakening

1945–1987 Soviet Estonia

Old Town

Image by Tallinn City Museum