Estonian Children’s Literature Centre

Museum address:

Pikk 73, Tallinn, Estonia

Entrance fee 1 EURO

Museum open during operating hours 18:00 - 23:00

Program

The Children’s Literature Centre invites you to the book market on Museum Night. We will be open from 18-23, with a library and lending service. Entrance on Museum Night is €1, children under 3 free.

For the adventurous, a treasure hunt awaits, where children can test their mettle with a guessing game.

At 18.30 we will do experiments together. We’ll see if we can make the worms dance with our voices, if we can write and read magic letters and much more.

From 18-22, our Bookmasters will offer one-to-one consultations to anyone with a major reading problem. You can find them in the Valter Gallery. The book guides will give reading suggestions. There’s advice for parents of toddlers doing their first reading, for serious fantasy fiction fans and for grandparents who want to get their children hooked on books – there’s a fun solution to every problem!

From 18-21 you can do arts and crafts in the second floor loggia.

At 20:00 the children will be joined by Anu and Sipsik.

At 21.30, the lights go out in the attic of the centre and the stories are read by Taavi Tõnisson.

SHOWS

The illustration and puppet exhibition “All Feelings are Right” invites you to recognise, cope with and accept different emotions in yourself and others.

The centre’s hall and staircase galleries are filled with illustrations by book artists from Estonia and around the world, showing that emotions are a natural and important part of our everyday lives. The artists’ images show that feelings are neither good nor bad – they just are.

In addition to the illustrations, you can also admire the creatures created by our puppet artists from children’s drawings in the centre’s attic. The drawings on which the creatures are based were selected in a creation competition that started in November 2024 and was attended by children aged 5-18 from all over Estonia. More than 2,000 drawings were sent to the competition, from which a hundred were selected for the exhibition. The children’s drawings will decorate the walls of the centre during the exhibition and, together with the special interior design, will create an emotional atmosphere.

Accessibility information:

Difficult to enter the building (stairs), inside the building only stairs, no lift.