Museum Sundays in Tallinn

Text Stewart Johnson
Photo Tallinn City Life Museum

Each month on the first Sunday, several museums in Tallinn offer free entry if you pre-register in time. Registration is necessary due to the popularity of the tradition. All the museums are operated by the City of Tallinn itself, and can also be visited on other days with the normal entrance fee.

The museums offering free entry on the first Sunday of each month are:

• Museum of Photography, located in a 600-year old medieval jail building, showcasing Estonian photography from the 1840s onward;
• Tallinn City Life Museum, in a building dating back to the 14th century, showing what life has been like throughout the city’s history. While currently under renovations until the end of the year, there are still 3D tours available online;
• Kiek in de Kök Fortifications, comprised of four towers of the medieval city wall;
• Kalamaja Museum, more than just a museum about Tallinn’s “hipster district”, it demonstrates how everyday life has changed in Tallinn throughout the ages;
• People’s Museum of Tallinn, located in a medieval merchant’s house, focuses on the diversity of Tallinn throughout its history;
• Children’s Museum Miiamilla, located in beautiful Kadriorg Park, this museum is for children and adults alike;
• House of Peter the Great, Tallinn’s oldest museum focuses on the everyday life of Peter the Great and Catherine I, after whom the park itself is named;
• Lasnamäe Pavilion, Tallinn’s newest museum serves as a gallery for some of the latest exhibitions;
• Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia, which is exactly what the name implies;
• Vilde Museum, also in Kadriorg Park, dedicated to many of Estonia’s top writers;
• Mati Unt Museum, where the writer Mati Unt lived from 1995–2005;
• Tammsaare Museum, dedicated to one of Estonia’s most famous writers in history, and where the author himself lived and died;
• Nõmme Museum, a museum about this fascinating district of Tallinn.

Registration for Museum Sundays is here, and if tickets for the museum you want to visit for free are already booked, you can still attend, albeit with a paid ticket, or check back for the first Sunday in September.

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