Estonian Bicycle Museum

Museum address:

Pikk 9 Väätsa Järvamaa

Free entrance

Accessibility information:

Parking is available in the car park in front of the museum, or you can park your vehicle a little further down the road.

Program

Pikk 9, Väätsa, Järvamaa. We are located in the middle of Estonia, in Järva County - 11 km from Türi, 7 km from Paide.

Open 18.00-01.00

Free admission.

• The museum café will be open exceptionally - you can enjoy coffee and cake from 1920-30. gramophone music of the years
• We take the liberty of playing for seven hours in a row old records from 1929. on a gramophone with a crank
• In the museum, you can play an exciting search game with prizes for free.
• And feel free to visit our permanent exhibition - with more than 180 historic bikes and much more.

We will cover the history of the bicycle as a means of transport in Estonia from the very beginning (19th century) to the end of the Soviet era. In our seven halls you will find more than 180 historic bicycles. The museum has a place of honour in Estonia from the 1920s to the 1930s. bicycles made in the years when there was a sizeable domestic bicycle industry. Bicycles with an auxiliary motor from the 1920s to the 1960s are also on display. years. We have a number of rarities on display such as the 1860. The "bone shaker" of the years, a wheel with a gimbal, Pärnu 1938. a front-wheel-drive bike made in 1930, a modern box bike made in 1930. predecessors of the years, the railway bicycle, the German military wheel that served in the Narva battalion of the Estonian Legion, and others.

In addition to bicycles, we have a range of other small machines from the 1890s to 1930s on display. years - typewriters, sewing machines, gramophones, telephones, telegraphs, radios and a pre-North War clock that still tells the time. Our museum building is from 1893. Väätsa's historic town hall, completed in 2010, is built on the walls of a medieval farmstead.

We've renovated and furnished the museum house since the 20th century. in a turn-of-the-century style - the whole museum is like a journey into the world of a century ago.

Lisainfo:

Tel 514 3262, 5666 3991

E-mail: info@velomuseum.ee

Automatic translation