Estonian Open Air Museum

A place worth visiting if you are in Tallinn. Nice to see how Estonians have been living during the years. Are is quite big so reserve at least two hours if your planning on going inside the buildings.

The Estonian Open Air museum was a fantastic experience. Spent around 4 hours there until we checked every different lodging, from different times and parts of Estonia. The people working there were very knowledgeable and shared informations regarding the life in those time. The interactive house regarding what we can learn from people living back in the day was amazing, i would recommend to anyone, especially with kids. Also the communal apartments for Kolkhoz workers with the rooms from different timeperiods was also very cool.

Such a lovely and spacious collection of buildings covering the history of Estonian people and the influences had on them. A good 3 hours is needed to walk around the beautiful woodland. It’s very interactive and allows you to enter each dwelling and look at all the original decor and tools etc. There is cafe to try traditional Estonian dishes but be warned, when the kitchen closes you can’t even get a refill glass of water if you’re still eating! They stick to strict hours of service. The food was delicious though! Recommend the Fried Fish and the Vegetable Stew. Highly recommend a visit to get a real insight into Estonian history

Very nice outdoor museum. Visited in early March, so there were few people and plenty of room. Nice exhibits and landscape, and had a nice lunch at the cafeteria. Lots of walking, did about 9km during our visit, but there are bikes for rent as an alternative. Also wagons for children. Signposts were available in Estonian, English, German and Russian, except for the main map which was only marked in Estonian. It was easy enough to interpret with the symbols though.

Astounding :) The best recommendation place to bring your whole family, as well as a great learning while playing spot for your kids. I learnt tons of fun but shocking facts about the lifestyle of Estonians in the medieval era. Their perspective on home, farming, and herding work is pretty normal, but I focused on how they emphasised the value of it for their daily life. And for me, children these days have to know this. The wool workshop museum was my favourite because the insight was great, and I can't imagine people in the past could produce high-quality wool products with that traditional machinery. Lastly, the "Chicken in cream" I ordered from Kolu Korts is amazing. The portion was just perfect and the price was reasonable.

Amazing nature, architecture and atmosphere. If I were an Estonian, I’d definitely purchase an annual membership to come here every weekend and even weekdays to go for runs. Loved it!!

My favorite museum in all of Estonia! Make sure to go during the day so you will be able to go inside the buildings and talk with the nice ladies there.

Everyone told us to visit this museum. The reviews were great, so we decided to give it a try. The tickets during the winter season are a bit cheaper, because there are way less buildings open and there aren’t as many activities as during summer. We knew this in advance. But still… we didn’t expect that almost every building was closed. And the few that were open had some people in there that probably didn’t like their jobs. Some were grumpy (as in ‘close the door behind you, it’s getting cold’), some didn’t welcome us when we entered and continued chatting with each other. And others were shocked and kind of nervous that people actually came into “their house”. It really felt like we were entering their homes, but these were buildings where we could do activities with them (as stated by the signs outside). Very strange and it made us a bit uncomfortable. We saw some other buildings with people in there, but they closed those doors so we couldn’t enter. One even quickly turned off the lights when they saw us. But maybe that was a coincidence? Also some of these buildings were used as offices. We were basically the only ones with 3-4 other people that day, so maybe we picked the wrong date and no one was actually thinking about working that day… but they could have said that before we bought the tickets. I think it’s a cool museum during the summer season, but please stay away during the winter season.