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.
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