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d d The museum is open daily (except June 24): the park, Kolu Inn and Handicraft Shop – from 10:00 to 20:00; the farms, Lau Shop and Kuie School – from 10:00 to 18:00. Adults: € 6 • concession fee: € 3 • family fee: € 12 • annual individual pass: € 22.50 • annual family pass: € 45 • Family combo ticket for the Estonian Open Air Museum and Zoo in summer: € 22; annual combo family pass: € 105. MISSION FEES

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OPENING TIMES an TIMES OPENING such events. April 23 – • By car: free parking at the main gate of the museum. SUMMER SEASON 2014 September 28 • Public transport: buses No. 21 and 21B from the Baltic railway station (“Balti jaam”) to the main gate of the museum. Bus No. 22 or trolleybuses 6 and 7 from the city centre: get off at Come and learn about Estonian rural architecture and experience the village atmosphere the “Zoo” stop and walk along the seaside road for around 15 minutes. from the 18th to 20th century! The museum’s 12 farms introduce the life that See the timetable: soiduplaan.tallinn.ee households of different wealth and skills have had in the days of old. As in any proper

HOW TO REACH US • City Tour: blue line buses stop at the museum entrance. See the timetable: www.citytour.ee village, there’s a church, an inn, a schoolhouse, mills, a firehouse and fishing net sheds.

April 23 • St. George’s Day August 20 • Gulf of Finland Day

CONTACT INFORMATION ents May 1 • Spring Fair and Sauna Day August 29 • The Estonian Open Air Museum

e v May 14 and 15 • Spring Farm Days has been open for visitors for 50 years! Vabaõhumuuseumi tee 12, Tallinn 13521 September 14 • Estonian Bread Day and Information line: +372 654 9100 May 17 • Night of Museums Autumn Fair Kolu Inn: +372 654 9119 May 31 and June 1 • “Living history 2014. season Handicraft Shop and the ticket office: From Ancient to Medieval.” September 18 • Autumn Farm Day +372 654 9101 June 7 and 8 • Granny’s and Grandpa’s Days September 29 • Michaelmas

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S June 23 • Midsummer Eve part of the Circle of Life exhibition, birth and serving dishes, spices and seasonings for baptism customs are presented here. the ladies, household tools and implements ranging from scythes to buckets, good beers At Härjapea Farm the women of the 1930s and fine wines for the gents. are proficient in handicraft and preparing tasty fare. On Saturdays in April and May, Sutlepa Chapel • This old chapel is a place they will dispense advice as to how to clean to take time out and think about the bigger one’s home using natural products. On values in life. Sutlepa Chapel is part of the Saturdays in June, July and August – this “Circle of Life” exhibition. Sassi-Jaani Farm’s exhibition provides being the year of the Song and Dance an overview of Estonian farm architecture Festival held every five years – they will Sepa Farm specialises in sheep farming. and construction, household implements, teach the proper wearing of folk costume, Processing wool requires its fair share of agriculture and animal husbandry through- how to make clothing more “national” skill. The mistress of Sepa will demonstrate out the centuries. Dance performances of with little effort and how to bring folk At Roosta Farm one can listen to the and talk about what types of work were the Folklore Society Leigarid take place on Estonian elements into home textiles. On prayers at the Moravian prayer house and needed to turn wool into socks. On weekends Saturday and Sundays at 11:00 from May Sundays, they will cook and bake exciting imagine how the congregation held services. from May 17 to September 14, blacksmith 31 to August 31. foods according to recipes in 1920s and Hymn sheets are provided to follow along to apprentices will work at the smithy. 1930s cookbooks. Härjapea Farm is part the words and music. Roosta Farm is part of At Köstriaseme Farm housewife dyes of the “Circle of Life” exhibition, church the “Circle of Life” exhibition, where death yarn and does thatch work. Visitors can confirmations are the specific topic for this and funeral customs are the focus. At Kalma Windmill visitors can see photos try sawing wood. Chickens scurry around. farm. of Estonian windmills. At the base of the On Saturdays and Sundays from May 17 Rusi Farm • In southern , many windmill is a big Mill Game table where visitors can put their cleverness to the test. to September 14, a master craftsman will Aarte Farm’s livelihood is fishing along farms were purchased with help of income weave rug on a loom. the coast. Baltic herring are dried along the received from flax growing. The housewife eaves. Alongside other chores and crafts, the of Rusi Farm still has some of last year’s flax Summer season exhibitions At Nuki Farm the family earns their keep housewife patches a quilt. At the weekend, to process and refine. She has set up various April 5-22 • Native construction speciality at the doing handicrafts. The housewife juggles coffee purchased from friends in Finland is implements to glean the fibres from the last Viljandi Culture Academy “Silm sirkel, nina vinkel” a number of skills – embroidery on one roasted and ground. batch of flax plants. (”Eyes for compasses, nose for angle”) occasion, sewing on another, just about May 15 – September 30 • “Circle of life” anything that wealthier folk order from her. At Jüri-Jaagu Farm, the Muhu Island Kuie School is a busy place until Mid- April 25 – September 1 • Tapestry/rug exhibition people’s love of and flair for using colours in summer Eve: before going on their summer “Triibulised” (“Striped”) At Pulga Farm housewife takes care of their textiles and buildings can be seen. With holidays, the children have to practise May 1-30 • Smoke sauna exhibition the pigs and tills the garden. Cooking and help from the housewife, visitors can paint reading, do their arithmetic and memorise “Savvusann – mi uma sann” mashing pig slop and weeding the cabbage the motifs seen on Muhu dowry chests and their Bible stories. When the lessons are June 2-29 • Social Centre handicraft and carrot plots are just some of the things wedding blankets on a shingle. done, everyone can try out what it must circle summer exhibition that need to be done. On the stoop of the have been like to sit on a hard bench July 3-27 • “Mõõdistuspraks ehk üliõpilased küla vahel” (“Students around the village”) storehouse, there’s a box of farm kids’ toys At Kolga Farm housewife has a net fork set studying the old texts. that every town child should look at. Visitors up for weaving fish nets. Kolga Farm is also August 7 - 24 • Viimsi Coastal People’s Museum exhibition “Liiv, mutt, natt, pilk ja peru - midagi ei can also play tug-of-war and do stilt walking. part of the Circle of Life exhibition, courting Lau Shop • The range of goods carried by the village shop is broad. Tasty sweets and saa aru” (”Liiv, mutt, pilk and peru – can anybody On the third Thursday of every month, the and wedding customs are presented here. understand?!”) smoke sauna is stoked. Pulga Farm is also chocolates for kids, beautiful textiles, fancy