The Kolu inn
Old Estonian food in a historic building.
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The same idea but far larger (seventy-two hectares against a small island) and open year-round, with more deeply furnished buildings — and for anyone who has seen one, the other still differs enough.
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An Estonian countryside on the shore west of Tallinn: the museum (1957) spreads over seventy-two hectares of coastal pine forest with more than eighty buildings moved from every Estonian county and rebuilt as miniature villages by region — farms, mills, a wooden church, a village school, a shop, an inn and fishermen's houses. The idea is to show how life differed between northern and southern Estonia and its islands: each village is furnished with its own tools, its region's dialect and its rituals, and staff in traditional dress genuinely work — baking, weaving, smithing — and explain in English. The historic Kolu inn serves old Estonian food, bicycles and carriages are hired for touring the grounds, and the beach lies at their end. On folk holidays (midsummer, Christmas) it fills with Estonian families themselves — the best time to come.
Old Estonian food in a historic building.
North, south and islands, each with its own tools.
Vabaõhumuuseumi tee 12, Tallinn