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1. MAIN GATE 2. KÖSTRIASEME FARM 5 3. HÄRJAPEA FARM 7 4. NÄTSI WINDMILL 6 4 5. SWING GROUND 9 6. KOLGA FARM 11 10 8 3 7. ROOSTA FARM 12 8. VILLAGE GREEN 9. JÜRI-JAAGU FARM 13 14 10. HELENE POND 11. PEIPUS-RUSSIAN 2 DWELLING 12. SETU FARM 13. LAU VILLAGE SHOP 14. KOLU INN 1 P

ADMISSION: adults 12 €, concession fee 6 €, family fee 24 €.

GETTING HERE Viru at following times: 18:00, 19:00, 20:00 and • By car: free parking at the main gate of the 21:00. The buses return to the city centre at 21:30, museum and at the parking lot at the back of 22:30, 23:30 and 00:30; departures from in front of museum (ca. 1 km from the main gate in Kakumäe the museum. On-demand stop available at direction). Keskus shopping mall on return route. • Free special bus arragned by District MIDSUMMER EVE • Public transport: buses No. 21 and 21B from the Baltic railway station (“Balti jaam”) to the main Administration with “Vabaõhumuuseum” signs gate of the museum. Bus No. 22 or trolleybuses will take the following route: Väike-Õismäe- AT THE ESTONIAN OPEN AIR MUSEUM 6 and 7 from the city centre: get off at the “Zoo” Kullerkupu-Nurmenuku-Karikakra-Sinilille- stop and walk along the seaside road for around 15 Meelespea-Rukkilille-Haabersti-Sõba-Tanuma- minutes. See the timetable: soiduplaan..ee . The buses will make the same stops in the reverse order on the way back. The buses • City Tour: blue line buses stop at the museum JUNE 23 AT 19-00 leave from the Väike-Õismäe stop at 18:30 and entrance. See the timetable: www.citytour.ee 19:30 and go back from the Open Air Museum at • Free buses with „Eesti Vabaõhumuuseum / Open 22:15, 23:15 and 00:15. Air Museum“ signs will depart from Sokos Hotel

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CONTACT US: Vabaõhumuuseumi tee 12, Tallinn 13521 • Information line: +372 654 9100 • Kolu Inn: +372 654 9119 • Handicraft Shop and the ticket office: +372 654 9101• www.evm.ee • [email protected] KÖSTRIASEME FARM • Sing-alongs of folk ROOSTA FARM • A family bonfire – songs with the musical group Konterbant a Midsummer Night filled with magic and at 20:45 and 22:00. rituals in a farm as it might have been in the early 19th century. The Midsummer KOLGA FARM • Games and trials of Day was the best time to ask for fertility strength for the big and small! Open for one’s land, animals as well as for championships of boot throwing and people. The light of the bonfire was weight lifting! On the threshing-floor, believed to purify, this why even animals you can watch a spirited film, “Estonian were brought to it. The Roosta farm Wedding Customs”, which was prepared family heats up the sauna, cooks, tells for the exhibition “The Circle of Life”. fortune and speaks about how to claim good health and prosperity during the JÜRI-JAAGU FARM • It was a custom to heat Midsummer Night! up the sauna before the Midsummer HÄRJAPEA FARM • A family bonfire from The Midsummer Night is full of light – the sun sets for only a short while, so it does not Day to clean up properly before heading the 1930s – children and brothers-sisters even get dark. This lightness is intensified by big and small bonfires across the land. to the bonfire. Fresh birch sauna who have moved to town come over You can hear musical instruments playing, dancers frolicking, but also quiet singing and whisks made on Midsummer Day were to celebrate the Midsummer Day and even chanting. Come and step across the threshold of the open air museum into considered to be the best. Throwing Victory Day. A celebration with party a magical night of many centuries ago, full of romance and bewilderment. Who knows, such a whisk across the sauna building’s games, dancing and singing is organised. maybe you will find your fern blossom! roof would forecast the weather. We are heating up the sauna, preparing sauna whisks and predicting weather for the LAU VILLAGE SHOP • The village shop THE MAIN GATE • • 19:00 A procession high shore so that it could be seen all haymaking period. awaits all the gents who wish to have a for lighting the bonfires starts from the across the lands to bring luck and good taste of good hand-made beer, a special main gate. Accompanied by the singing health to everyone. A powerful party of HELENE POND • The Midsummer Night is a brew “Black Export”, and ladies who wish of Folklore Society Leigarid, we light men have gathered for entertainment to have a look at the dress fabrics for a together the bonfires next to Nätsi this year: Achtern Diek, a shanty choir night of love and romance! The Helene pond, named after the former lady of the festive day. The shop offers a variety of windmill, on the swing grounds and on from Germany, and our own beloved goods for a sophisticated taste! the village green. Kukerpillid. Rocca al Mare manor, has a boat waiting for couples who wish to say something 19:45 • Shanty Choir Achtern Diek beautiful and memorable to each other in KOLU INN • A chance to rest one’s foot and NÄTSI WINDMILL GREEN • You can listen 21:00; 22:00 and 23:00 • Kukerpillid the seclusion of the pond waters. Lovers try some delicious festive dishes! to live music and enjoy the lovely 23:45 • The meeting of Dusk and Dawn are sent on their boat journey by Helene Midsummer evening on the cosy grounds and Eugen von Nottbeck. with a sea view behind Nätsi windmill. After the lighting of the bonfire, live VILLAGE GREEN • 19:45-23:00 • The dancers of Folklore Society Leigarid twirl music is played by the bold and lively ACTIVITIES TAKE PLACE AT 19:00-23:00, FARMS ARE OPEN AT 19:00-22:30. BE SURE TO VISIT their bright skirts and swing their felt musical group Konterbant. The band NB! THE ESTONIAN OPEN AIR MUSEUM’S NEW FARMS: SETO FARM AND PEIPUS-RUSSIAN HOUSEHOLD! Robirohi takes over the stage at 20:30 hats on the green grounds of the village with country tunes from here and abroad. green. The music, dances and games FOOD AND DRINKS WILL BE SERVED BY KOLU INN AT NÄTSI WINDMILL GREEN AND AT THE INN revive a village party from the 19th ITSELF. PÄRNU CAFÉ AMPS WILL SERVE FOOD AND DRINKS AT THE VILLAGE SWING AND THE VILLAGE GREEN. BEVERAGES, SWEETS AND OTHER GOODS ARE ON SALE FROM LAU VILLAGE SWING GROUNDS • The bonfire on the century. SHOP AT 19-22.30 AND AT THE SHOP BY THE MAIN GATE AT 19-00. swing grounds is lighted together on the