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www.visitparnu.com Museums in Pärnu Pärnu Visitor Centre Uus 4, 80010 Pärnu, Estonia Tel +372 447 3000, +372 5330 4134 www.visitparnu.com 1 12 17 [email protected] Photo: Pärnu Museum Photo: Car Museum, Andres Arro Photo: Pernovo Nature House
Audru Museum 4 Audru Museum was opened in 1996 in the former manager's house of the Audru Manor. The permanent exhibition in the hall on the museum's top floor introduces the lives of Audru Interested people over many centuries through writings, mementos and Interested Something other items, such as old embroidery, school items, wooden Interested items, etc. The manor building, which has been restored in its in history? original shape and its rare chimneys are separate objects of in machinery? in culture? special interest. The biggest exhibits, such as the machines used for farm work, are located in the yard museum. You can also visit the beautiful Audru Manor complex, the manor park and Audru Church.
Seljametsa Museum Pärnu Museum 5 On the initiative of local history enthusiasts and with the Kirsi Museum Museum of New Art Permanent exhibition of Pernova Nature House 1 Pärnu Museum is one of the most contemporary museums support of the local government, the former Pustuski Dairy 12 In the summer, you can see vintage vehicles in the 15 When visiting the art galleries of Pärnu, you can 17 The permanent exhibition on the three floors of in the Baltic region, offering excitement for the entire has been transformed into a comfortable and interesting former house of field hands in Virtsu Manor in Lääne always rely on the Museum of New Art to surprise Pernova Nature House, which has a rounded grass family. The permanent exhibition “11,000 Years of History – place to visit. Tools and household products, various furniture County. Unique horse-drawn vehicles, bicycles and you with its exhibitions of modern art. The roof, offers something for both children and adults. and consumer goods, school books, books and various automobiles are on display, representing the history of Experiences from Times Long Ago” takes you on a museum’s collection contains more than 400 Visitors can see: a winter garden, a pet room, a film handicraft are all on display. The goal of the museum is to wheels spanning two centuries so that every decade is fascinating journey through time, starting from the Stone works, and more than 1200 documentaries are room, a cave of sounds and exhibits of Pärnu County Age, continuing through the medieval trade routes and the provide information on the cultural treasures and history of represented by at least one vehicle. All items belong in nature. Baroque fortified city to the nostalgic Soviet era. You can Paikuse municipality. the private collection of Valeri Kirss. kept in its videotheque. Did you know? The also learn about the evolution of the resort town that is very international exhibition of nudes known as 'Man Estonian Peat Museum in Tootsi characteristic of Pärnu. In addition to the permanent Tõstamaa Museum Car Museum and Woman' has become a tradition at the 18 The Peat Museum in Tootsi was established to exhibition, the museum has premises for temporary 6 The local museum, opened in the basement and chimney hall 13 The car museum exhibits more than 50 different museum and The Pärnu Film Festival, at which maintain a historic briquetting plant and the exhibitions; the multifaceted programme includes of Tõstamaa Manor in 2006, introduces the life of local people vehicles from manufacturers all around the world. We international documentaries compete with each equipment there. Visitors can explore a symbolic alternating exhibitions of art and history. through items and photos. You can see several exhibitions in have cars that people drove in Estonia during the other and new Estonian documentaries are building of Pärnu County, a briquetting plant the basement hall of the museum, which include a room full of Soviet era (including a '63 Rambler which belonged to premiered, has been held more than twenty times. completed in 1938. The exhibition introduces peat as a Pärnu Citizen’s House different tools, school supplies, domestic items, Soviet and Paul Keres), classic European and American cars, and natural resource, as well as its processing. There is a marine exploration items, as well as those associated with the unique vehicles from before the war. We also have an 1 People who visit the Citizen’s House can learn about the Pärnu City Gallery railway near the museum, leading to the bog. Guests history and people of Pärnu. Visitors can view exhibitions of lives of fishermen. You can take a look at the mantle chimney exhibition of model cars. Additionally, there is a shop can ride the former peat train for a few kilometres. You 15 Pärnu City Gallery has operated since 1995 in the history of local government, the most important and different temporary exhibitions in the chimney hall on the which offers literature and art on the history of cars, have to book a visit to the museum in advance. historical persons associated with Pärnu, exhibitions of second floor. NB! From September until the end of May, the model cars, and so on. different rooms. The current exhibition hall is Hanseatic and twin towns. The heads of the city often hold manor and the museum can be visited with a guide only; a conveniently located in the centre of town in the receptions for the city’s most respectable guests and tour lasts from 45 minutes to an hour. The guide fee is 25 14 Estonian Museum Railway at Lavassaare historic Town Hall. The gallery has hosted over 200 delegations in this house and they also use it for discussions euros, depending on the size of the group. You can learn about the history of narrow-track railway exhibitions over the years. of cooperation and important meetings. The house itself is in Estonia (1895-1975) in the former peat industry the oldest wooden building with beams and a high gable Häädemeeste Museum region at Lavassaare. More than 80 items of rolling The Farm Museum of C.R. Jakobson at Kurgja Häädemeeste coast has long and well known shipbuilding stock, including five steam engines, can be seen in the roof in the medieval territory of Pärnu that has survived all 7 16 In the museum, you can learn about the life and fires and wars. traditions, which are reminded by the memorials in museum that was established in the 1980s. The Häädemeeste and Kabli, the impressive wooden homes of old exhibition inside the museum includes more than 700 work of Carl Robert Jakobson, who played a Lydia Koidula Memorial Museum captains and ship-owners and family graves in village different historical photos, items and documents. You leading role during the times of Estonian national 1 Lydia Koidula (1843–1886) was a famous poetess and cemeteries. Local cultural heritage has been preserved here can also buy pictures depicting the history of railway. awakening in the 19th century, and the farm he publicist during the national awakening of Estonia who in words, pictures and videos, and the museum also has more Useful information: you can go for a ride on a museum established. You can see restored old farm spent her youth in Pärnu. The memorial museum works in than 400 research papers about the subject. train from June to September. You can choose whether buildings such as the cattle barn, mill, etc. and try the house that was her home from 1850 to 1863. It is known you want to cover the 2 km railway section on a steam, your hand at farm work and learn about old ways. as Pärnu Ülejõe Schoolhouse where her father JV Jannsen, Lihula Museum diesel or picnic train. Animals are still kept on the farm so you can see who is also the father of journalism in the Estonian 8 The museum gives overview of the history of South cows, sheep and horses. If you pre-order you can Läänemaa, Lihula and its fortress. The museum displays many language, worked at the time as the schoolmaster. You can enjoy Estonian national food on the farm. Useful interesting findings of archaeological studies. Visitors often learn about their lives and activities in the context of information: C.R. Jakobson was on the Estonian national awakening in Estonia, take a look at a typical admire the exhibition of local ethnographical materials like school and home from the middle of the 19th century and traditional clothing, carpets and tools. 500-kroon banknote. find out about the start of Estonian journalism (Perno Postimees from 1857). Varbla Museum 9 The museum is located in the Uue-Varbla Manor. The Kihnu Museum exhibition of the museum portrays the history of Varbla rural 2 You must go to the exciting Kihnu Museum when you visit municipality and the local everyday life during the first half of the island. It is like an anchor in preserving and introducing the last century. The museum also includes a handicraft room the cultural space of Kihnu, which has been entered in the and the "book attic" of Karl Ristikivi, a writer from Varbla. In the UNESCO heritage list. The museum was founded in the manor's granary, you can see old tools and machines. The former schoolhouse of Sääreküla Village in 1974 and manor's wooden main building, built in 1797, represents the thoroughly renovated in 2009. You will find everything that early classicist style and is a unique sight in its own right. concerns the everyday lives of people- tools, clothes, handicrafts, furniture. You will also find exhibitions that Sindi Museum introduce famous Kihnu men, such as historian Theodor 10 In Sindi, at the end of Wöhrmanni boulevard, is a little house Saar, Captain Enn Uuetoa and silversmith Peeter Rooslaid, where the first cooperative in Estonia, the Sindi Kalev Factory and the works of Kihnu nativists. Association, was founded on November 17, 1902. An amateur museum was opened in this historic building in 1983. The main Hanila Museum exhibition portrays the history of the Sindi textile industry and The museum operates in the old Hanila schoolhouse, where factory, the life and times of the factory workers and the 3 materials related to Hanila’s history and cultural heritage history of the town of Sindi and Sindi School. In the small are collected and displayed. The preservation of the work kitchen you can see tools and women's handicraft from the and memories of August Tampärg is a duty of honour, as is 20th century. the appreciation of the old parish school as a cultural memorial. The life’s work of August Tampärg, an honoured Tori Museum citizen of Hanila Rural Municipality, was the preservation of 11 Tori Museum in Pärnu County was founded as the first parish the municipality’s cultural heritage for future generations. museum in Estonia by August Pulst in 1934. The first item Good to know: The permanent ethnographic and cultural exhibited was a beer stein, which is now depicted on the exposition consists of several subdivisions – the farmyard, museum's logo. Tori Museum shares its building with the local traditional threshing room and workshop. The main part of community centre. A permanent exhibition is displayed on the exhibition comprises items from Porsiku Farm that have the walls of the lobby, introducing the history of Tori. Museum been preserved over several generations. items are in the granary of the manor next to the Tori horse farm. You can look around the granary on your own for free! 2 16 17 Photo: Kihnu Museum Photo: Elen Juurma, The Farm Museum of C.R. Jakobson Photo: Pernovo Nature House Häädemeeste Museum Kooli 9, Häädemeeste 7 +372 446 4315, +372 5051 658 [email protected] rannatee.ee
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