History & Culture

St. Michael’s (Miikaeli) Church in Keila

The construction of the biggest mediaeval country church in Harju County probably started immediately after Northern Estonia had been subjected to the king of Denmark. There is no data about the first years of the…

Pickwa St. Michael Chapel

The chapel of Tallinn Diaconal Hospital, designed in 1891, was a little building in the yard of a large complex of the Tallinn Magdaleena Hospital.  Pickwa St. Michael Chapel was moved to Pikva because it was…

St. Lawrence Church in Kuusalu

Kuusalu Church, dedicated to protodeacon martyr St. Lawrence, is considered to be one of the oldest stone churches in Northern Estonia. It was most likely the Gotlandish Cistercian monks who started building a house of…

Kiiu Vassal Stronghold, or the Kiiu Tower

The medieval Kiiu Tower was probably completed in the beginning of the 16th century, and it is located in Kiiu manor park. This former residential tower is the smallest surviving medieval defensive structure in the…

Näkiallika Smithy-Museum of Tools

The smithy-museum of tools is located in Näkiallika Farm, Kupu Village, Kuusalu Rural Municipality. The museum established in memory of Estonian blacksmiths has more than ten thousand exhibits in the collection of tools and objects….

Toomani Farmhouse Museum

The residential building of the farm was completed according to the design of August Volberg in 1932. The former granary has been restored into a little farmhouse museum by the host family. The thatched roof…

Kolga Museum

Kolga Museum is a local area history museum in Kuusalu municipality that is located in one of the largest and oldest manor ensembles in Estonia – the Kolga Manor. We will take our guests through…

Viinistu Village Museum

Viinistu Village Museum is situated in a house near the Viinistu village square Sunimäe. The property of the Village Museum has mainly been received at the beginning of the 1960s as donations from local villagers….

Vasalemma Manor

The beautiful Neo-Gothic Vasalemma manor that has preserved in full has been built from 1890 to 1893 from local dolomite, the so-called Vasalemma marble. Since 1919, the gorgeous characteristically English manor house with its octahedral…

Viimsi Open Air Museum

Viinistu Art Museum

The Viinistu Art Museum opened its doors in 2002. The main building of the museum has been rebuilt from the refrigerated building of the fish processing factory on a former fishermen’s collective farm. Today, in…

Museum of Coastal Folk