Koidula Museum
Museum address:
Jannseni 37, Pärnu City
Entrance 1 euro
Accessibility information:
How to find us?
We are located on the right bank of the Pärnu River. You can get to us by bus, car, bike or on foot. Parking is free, and there are plenty of places for bicycles in the museum’s beautiful gardens. It takes 20-25 minutes to walk from the centre of Pärnu to the museum.
The main entrance to the museum is on Jannsen Street. Entering through this door, you enter the classroom of the former school building, which also houses the museum’s cash desk.
To enter the museum in a wheelchair, pushchair or bicycle, it is more convenient to use the gate on Jannsen Street and the museum’s back entrance.
A museum staff member can also sell you a Night of Museums ticket at the gate and help you find the right entrance.
What to expect?
The permanent exhibition of the Koidula Museum is located in the museum. on the 1st floor and is wheelchair accessible. The temporary exhibition is located in The museum is on the 2nd floor and can only be accessed via a narrow wooden staircase.
The museum has an eye-operated amplifier and a touch screen in each themed room, with both reading and listening files.
There is also an invertebrate toilet in the garden courtyard.
More information on accessibility can be found here.
Program
We are open on Museum Night from 18.00-23.00
Open exhibitions
Permanent exhibition at the Koidula Museum introduces the life and work of two great figures of the Estonian Awakening - Johann Voldemar Jannsen and his daughter Lydia Koidula. The modern literary museum is housed in the former Pärnu Ülejõe schoolhouse, which was the home and office of the Jannsens.
On the second floor of the museum building is a travelling exhibition of Eveline von Maydell's work by the National Archives. "A life full of colours".
You can take children for a walk in the museum gardens Lolla discovery trail.
More exciting
On Museum Night, you can find some nice snacks in the Koidula Museum garden. reading nests.
What is your favourite book or recent reading experience? In the garden of the Koidula Museum, you can also give reading suggestions in an exciting way.
In addition, the authors of Pärnu Suleklub will present their new collection "The Heritage of Dignity" at the Koidula Museum.
The nation begins with a book - let's write a collective poem!
On the night of the museum, there will be a book exchange in the courtyard of the Red Tower, in front of the Pärnu Museum and in the garden of the Koidula Museum!
Bring a book you are ready to give up and come and see if you can find a replacement.
In the occasion of the Book Year, all the museum's own prints are discounted at Pärnu Museum branches!
NB! Koidula Museum will participate again this year A night at the museum with a free bus service:
Route and schedule:
17.00 Departure from Koidula Museum (J. V. Jannseni 37, Pärnu) to Tori
17.30-19.00 Tori Horse Farm (Pärnu mnt 10, Tori)
19.00 Departure from Tori, Kurgja
19.20.30-20.30 C. R. Jakobson Farm Museum (Kurgja, North-Pärnumaa municipality)
20.30 Departure from Kurgja to Tori
21.00 Departure from Tori to Koidula Museum in Pärnu. 2 hours to visit the Koidula Museum!
Booking for the bus tour through Fienta. Information is updated!
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