March promises brighter days and more sunshine, both perfect when wandering in a park. Kadriorg park is offering an impressive line-up of museums, all free with Tallinn Card, along with the fresh air, long boulevards, new channels and Japanese garden.
Those visiting Kadriorg with children will definitely want to put this family-oriented museum on their to-do list. Built in a 1930s-era recreational centre, Miia-Milla-Manda offers fun, creative activities for 3 to 11 year-olds.
It's exhibits are based around the theme of friendship.
Café at the museum, playground on the door step and vast virtually traffic free Kadriorg park surrounding the museum makes this place the child-friendliest place to be in all kinds of weather.
The complex itself is a work of art - it was opened in 2006 after nearly a decade of planning and construction, and is considered a modern architectural masterpiece. Curves and sharp edges mark out the copper and limestone structure, which is built into the side of a limestone cliff.
Kumu's exhibition aims to appeal simultaneously to a diversity of audiences. Exhibitions display both classical and contemporary art and everything in between. In March pay visit to the display of design elements “Come In. Interior Design as a Medium of Contemporary Art in Germany” or exhibition of the multifaceted work of Raoul Kurvitz (b. 1961): videos, performances, paintings, installations and much more from the late 1980s to the present day.
This humble 17th century cottage is where the mightiest of the Russian tsars, Peter the Great, spent his Tallinn stays while the nearby Kadriorg Palace was being built.
The house is now a museum, and its few rooms are furnished with items from that era. Some of the Tsar's own personal belongings are also on display here. The exhibits include the living room, dining room and bedroom as well as newly renovated rooms in the attic and basement. Peter the Great’s Cottage, also known as “the old palace” (the current Kadriorg Palace being “the new palace”), has a long and fascinating history. Alexander I and several tsars' courtiers have also frequented the cottage.
Designed by Italian architect Niccolo Michetti, the grandiose northern Baroque palace and surrounding manicured gardens are a humbling example of Tsarist extravagance, but just as important a reason to visit is that this is also home to the foreign art collection of the Art Museum of Estonia.
The Kadriorg Art Museum displays hundreds of 16th- to 20th-century paintings by Western and Russian artists, as well as prints, sculptures and other works. In March enjoy the exhibition Russian Realist art, which introduces the period of Repin’s life spent in Finland. Entrance with Tallinn Card is free.
Donated by a private collector, Johannes Mikkel, in 1994, the museum’s works now make up one of Tallinn’s most impressive displays of foreign art. Items here include alluring antique Chinese porcelain, Flemish and Dutch paintings and Italian engravings. Take a look at the temporary exhibition of silver collection, containing about one hundred works of silver produced in the Estonian territory between the 16th and 19th centuries.
One of Estonia’s principle writers, Eduard Vilde (1865-1933), spent his last years living on the ground floor of this grandiose 1850sera baroque house in Kadriorg park. Several of the rooms are dedicated to displays on the writer’s work, while the rest are kept furnished and decorated just as they would have been while the writer lived here from 1927 to 1933. The upper floor houses a gallery with frequently changing contemporary art exhibits.
Anton Hansen-Tammsaare (1878-1940) is considered to be the greatest Estonian writer of the 20th century. His most famous work is the five-part epic, Truth and Justice, which covers all strata of Estonian society. The museum chronicles his life and work, but just as interesting is the apartment, painstakingly restored to its 1930s original, where the writer lived the last eight years of his life.
With over 4 500 plant species and 123 hectares of space this is a perfect family friendly complex for summer picnics or occasional outdoor concerts.
Beginning of March highlights the traditional orchid exhibition presenting delicate and elegant miniature plants as well as bolder and bigger species, all tough survivors, all equally beautiful.
Audioguides available in English and Russian. Free entrance with Tallinn Card.
When tired of the long winter and many museums take rest in many of the spas. If however you want to make to most of the disappearing snow head for skiing lessons!
This spa hotel has all the latest treatments on its menu, along with its unique couples and young family friendly Aqua spa. It offers various types of saunas and pools, including a salt water pool and an outdoor pool that's open all year round.
With Tallinn Card two hours spa centre use with 34% discount.
The well-maintained, brightly-lit ski tracks in the Tallinn's Pirita district provide the perfect place to learn this healthy pastime, and the setting in the beautiful, pine-forested parks close to St. Bridget's Convent is breath taking. English-speaking instructor will make your ski experience fun, safe and easy.
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