Tammsaare Museum (Tallinn Literary Centre)

Museum address:

L. Koidula 12a, Kadriorg, Tallinn, Estonia

Entrance 1 euro

Accessibility information:

The museum’s historic building imposes restrictions on movement. Unfortunately, wheelchair access is not possible as there is no lift or ramps. The museum is located on the second floor.

By public transport to the museum: from the city centre by trams 1 and 3 or by bus in the direction of Pirita/Lasnamäe (Koidula stop).

Parking: paid in the city centre zone.

Program

Open 11.00-23.00.

The Tallinn Literary Centre Writers' Museums are open on Museum Night. You can explore the Tammsaare Museum on your own or with an audio guide and solve puzzles in the museum.

Estonian literary classic A. H. Tammsaare (1878-1940) is located in Kadriorg, in a historicist cottage-type house. The writer lived and died in this building between 1932 and 1940. The writer's widow, Käthe Hansen, wanted their home to be a museum one day. This dream has now come true, with the opening of the museum on the centenary of the writer's 30th birthday. 01. 1978.a.

On the second floor of the house is the writer's five-room apartment, furnished in its original style. It was here that Tammsaare wrote his works of the 1930s. The second wing of the museum houses an interactive exhibition on Tammsaare's life and legacy, as well as temporary exhibitions. An exhibition dedicated to the novel "Life and Love", "The Stylistics of Love", is currently open.

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