Tallinna Linnamuuseum

Tallinna Linnamuuseum is the museum of the city of Tallinn. Heading south from Fat Margaret Tower towards the Town Hall Square you can either take Pikk Street again or take Vene Street, the street considered a foodie’s playground, due to its international-cuisine restaurants lined along its southern part. If we move south from Margaret Tower towards the town hall square, then before we wedge ourselves in-between Indian and Russian culinary traditions we come across the Orthodox Church of St. Nicholas, an impressive neoclassical church that has been a place of worship of Russian nationals for hundreds of years.

A few more steps to the south is where the Museum of the City of Tallinn is located. The museum is housed in a medieval merchant´s house with a history that reaches back to the 14th century. The permanent display there presents Tallinn’s history from its founding to the re-establishment of Estonian independence in 1991.

In the basements of the medieval merchant’s house are the open-air storage of pottery, porcelain and metal, and on the upper floor exhibitions of the history of the city. The Rococo-style banquet hall features luxury items and ruler portraits of city hall gentlemen and wealthy citizens. The annual exhibition “One Hundred Years of Everyday Life” introduces the everyday life of the city, a special exhibition on the history of the Langebraun porcelain industry. More