Museum of Occupations & Freedom
Nazi-Soviet crimes & Estonian resistance
Housed in a modern structure on the eastern flank of Toompea Hill, the Museum of Occupations (Okupatsioonide muuseum) provides a gripping account of the 1940–91 period, when Estonia suffered occupations by both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.
An e-guide helps you through a wide-ranging display. Exhibits from propaganda posters and military uniforms to the surveillance equipment used by Soviet security forces bring the hardships and struggles of the period to life.
Particularly poignant are the personal effects of Estonians deported to work camps in the east during late 1940s, many of whom never returned. Newsreel footage chronicles the whole period, with the anti-Soviet revolution of 1987-91 proving particularly engrossing.