Pärnu Museum
Museum address:
Aida 3, Pärnu city
Entrance 1 euro
Accessibility information:
How to come?
The museum building is located in the quarter between Pika Street and the Pärnu River, next to the Pärnu Concert Hall.
On the North Street side of the museum there is a 7-space car park, the leftmost of which is a designated parking space for visitors with special needs. Buy a museum ticket and ask for a parking card from the museum cashier with your ticket and place it under the windscreen of your car.
Bicycle parking is available on both sides of the museum.
The main door is located on the Aida Street side and is on the same level as the street.
What to expect?
Pärnu Museum has two exhibition zones. It is possible to move around the museum halls and between the different floors in a wheelchair. The permanent exhibition starts from the foyer, while a sloping ramp to the left, next to the museum cash desk and the museum shop, leads to the ground floor of the building. After the second exhibition hall, you have to go up the stairs and through the cinema hall. If you are in a wheelchair or pushchair, use the disabled access behind the curtains on the left-hand side of the exhibition hall. The permanent exhibition continues after the cinema hall and ends at the lift. To the right of the lift, a staircase will take you back to the foyer. You can also get back to the foyer by elevator by pressing the 0 floor button.
The temporary exhibition hall on the 3rd floor can only be accessed by lift from the reception floor or from the end of the permanent exhibition (press the 3rd floor button).
There is no voice announcement in the lifts.
More information on accessibility can be found here.
Program
Open exhibitions
Permanent exhibition of Pärnu Museum spans over 11 000 years, from the Stone Age onwards, and through five halls and genuine artefacts it gives an overview of the history of the whole locality and Estonia.
The permanent exhibition of Pärnu Museum can be seen in its current form for the last spring and summer! From 21 August, the museum will be closed for half a year to prepare a new permanent exhibition of the unique stories of the area!
Two exhibitions are on display in the museum's temporary exhibition hall.
Exhibition "The Kudu of the Golden Circle. Pärnumaa folk costumes on the way to the big party". covers both the historical regions of Pärnumaa and the regions that have been merged with the recent administrative reform. By districts, there are items of clothing preserved in the museum's ethnographic collection; full sets made today; and some folk costumes designed for Pärnu choirs.
The exhibition includes "Estonia gives thanks" a large selection of Estonian national decorations. You can see the different classes of the Cross of Freedom, the White Star, the Cross of Maryland, the National Coat of Arms, the Eagle Cross, the Estonian Red Cross and many more.
The third temporary exhibition is on display in the museum's club room (entrance from the lobby). Exhibition at "Waba country girls. The lives of the tape(k)givers" tells the story of the 12 girls who handed out blue-and-black-and-white ribbons on the evening of 23 February 1918, when the "Manifesto to the Peoples of Estonia" was first read out in public from the balcony of the Endla clubhouse.
More exciting
On the Night of Museums 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're ready to give up and see if you can find a replacement.
For the Book Year, all the museum's own prints are discounted!
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