History & Culture

Juminda Lighthouse

The lighthouse at the northern part of the Juminda Peninsula on the northern coast helps ships navigate. The lighthouse was built in 1937 and obtained its today’s height and shape in 2006. During the Soviet…

Kau Manor

Kau Manor was first mentioned in the Danish Valuation Book in 1241, when a medieval vassal fortress was built. The classicist appearance of the complex-shaped main building of the manor, which has survived to this…

Pakri lighthouse

This lighthouse is situated on the north-western tip of the Pakri peninsula on a high slate bluff marking the water’s edge on a very important shipping lane along the northern coast. A similar structure has…

Rannamõisa Church

Rannamõisa Church was built in 1901 and consecrated as a church in 1905. Until 1937, the church belonged to the Keila congregation and was called Ranna Chapel. It became an independent congregation in September 1937…

Amandus Adamson Studio Museum

Studio Museum is situated in the summer studio of sculptor Amandus Adamson (12 November 1855 – 26 June 1929) in Paldiski. It showcases Adamson’s life and work, exhibiting his furniture, and photos of and documents…

DiVello Ceramics Workshop

A workshop for one of the oldest handicrafts known to man, pottery, has been set up in the Jäneda Guest House. You can make dishes and decorative tiles. The workshop also has a display room…

Museums of the Prangli Islands

The museums showcase the history, nature and way of life of Suur-Prangli and Väike-Prangli (Aksi). Museum of Farm Folk of Prangli Islands has a permanent exhibition on the everyday lives of the coastal folk of…

Naissaar War Museum

Monument to the Estonian translation of the Bible

“250 years have passed since the Bible was first translated into Estonian. This was accomplished by Anton Thor Helle who was a pastor at the Jüri church between 1713-1748. Remembering in gratitude the Bible and…

St. Mary’s Church on Naissaare

Naissaare church, standing on an island 12 km from Tallinn, was constructed in 1934 to the designs of architect Karl Tarvas. It was consecrated in 1938. It has a very simple but masterful architectural design…

Linnamäe hydro-electric power station

St. Charles’ Church in Tuhala

This church, commissioned by the lord of the local manor, Karl von Mellin, was constructed between 1775 and 1777. The saint’s name chosen for it was selected in his honour. It was consecrated on 3…