Estonian Maritime Museum (Meremuuseum) Tallinn

13 July 2012

Tallink Baltic Princess brought us to the D-terminal of Tallinn. We first alighted our luggage at the hostel then began the day with Kaarli Kirik, a church. It is a refurnishing church with a wall painting of Jesus (opening arms). The reception lady was very enthusiastic and gave us a booklet showing all the churches and …

Tallinn, Estonia - Tallinn is a superb mixture of medieval old city twinned with dramatic sky scrappers and modern buildings. One minute you're walking down a busy inner city street, the next you are tripping on cobble stones and wondering how you ...

... photo areas. From here we meandered down the length of Pikk St which runs all the way across the Old Town along to the Estonian Maritime Museum held in the "Fat Margaret" tower in the city walls. The museum covers 4 floors and is filled with a number of ...

... sang; simply and unaccompanied.If you have the time, and are slightly off-the-wall (like us), go and find the Maritime Museum's museum ships.  Not only is the walk past the enormous decaying Soviet era Festival Hall and the boarded-up (only recently ...

... streets of the city, winding our way down to one of the city gate towers.  We got lucky as we found a Maritime Museum housed inside this particular town, known as Paks Margareeta, or Fat Margaret.   ...

... I did wander around the grounds and take a few photos. The second stop was the museum ships of the Estonian State Maritime Museum.  I toured and icebreaker, coastguard patrol boat and the submarine Lembit, which was a mine-laying submarine built for ...

... the displays were still in Estonian and Russian, making it harder to appreciate the artifacts and history. After the Maritime Museum, I went to the Tallinn City Museum, which gave a very interesting history of the city from Medieval times to present. ...

... by islands, but then powered up when in open water in the Baltic. I felt quite anxious yesterday when reading at the Maritime museum about the Baltic being "a dangerous waterway", however it was very still today. Our crossing took 1 hour 40 mins. As ...

... is ridiculous! Mai got home around 6 and took me on a walk by the water, past the old political prison and to the Maritime museum (the ships weren`t too impressive but it was very relaxing in the twilight) and then on to the Linnahall (a very soviet ...

... were received by there friends and colleagues.  Suitable impressed by this museum I decide to tackle a second, the maritime museum.  Although fairly interesting it does feel somewhat aimed at dedicated boat spotters.  Indeed my ...

... Tallinn delight was Fat Margaret http://www.meremuuseum.ee/?op=body&id=65 a former cannon tower which houses the Estonian Maritime Museum.  The exhibits are great fun and the building itself is fabulous.  And you can get up onto the ...