Calendar 2010
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Get a glimpse of true Estonian country side and village life in Estonian Open Air Museum!
The Estonian Open Air Museum is akin to a village, with 12 farms, as well as its own church, tavern and schoolhouse. There are a number of mills, a fire station, fishing net sheds as well as a dancing area and a village swing.
The museum is located in a lovely, well-maintained forest park on a high sandstone bank on Kopli Bay, just 15 minutes drive from the center of Tallinn. Take City Tour Bus to the gate.
PUBLIC EVENTS OF ESTONIAN OPEN AIR MUSEUM IN 2010
Shrove Tuesday, 16th February
Shrove Tuesday ends winter fun and marks the beginning of the great fast. That’s why on that day people eat pork trotters and pea soup, master a traditional humming top game, tell fortune, and slide downhill in order to guarantee a successful year. An exciting Shrove Tuesday trail is opened and the evening ends with a merry party.
Estonian Independence Day, 24th February
Big Party, 5th March – an evening celebration dedicated to Kristjan Torop, the founder of Leigarid folk art ensemble. You can dance to old and more recent folk tunes, take part in amusing games and enjoy live folk music.
Easter, 4th April
Easter, spring holidays, swing holidays, egg holidays, Resurrection – a good child has many names, and all of them speak for themselves. We paint eggs, sing swing songs, braid ribbons, bake sweet white bread, set the festive table to end the fast and celebrate the beginning of beautiful spring!
Museum Night, 15th May – the night full of mysteries!
Spring Farm Days, 12th-13th May. You can find out what kind of spring tasks were carried out on an Estonian farm, what did peasants eat and drink, and what their thoughts were…
Tele 2 Family Day ‘Take notice of the surrounding nature!’, 6th June. Almost all museum farms wake up to life with the young and the old bustling around. You will travel 100 years back in time. Handicrafts fair.
Granny’s and Grandpa’s Days, 12th-13th June
Here grandparents lark about together with their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Come and enjoy dancing and singing as well as beautiful handicraft.
St John’s Eve, 23rd June
St John’s Eve is a beautiful summer night full of mysteries, love and emotions, blazing bonfires, dances and tunes, swing songs and folk games. You can witness a living tradition and dance along with the music of Kukerpillid band. Fast and energetic rhythms are delivered by an Estonian-Ukrainian folk band, Svjata Vatra.
Bread Day and Big Autumn Fair, 12th September
For our forefathers autumn was the time of hard but important work. It was necessary to prepare for the coming winter: dry grain, thresh, grind flour and collect crops from the fields – cabbages, carrots and turnips that would help to survive during the dark winter times. The most important tasks were connected with breadstuffs, as no farm could do without some bread on the table. During the autumn fair town folks can supplement their winter provisions. And as usual you can listen to merry folk songs and beautiful music to refresh your spirit.
Christmas Village, 18th-19th December
It is a good idea to take some time off for a moment and let the Christmas mood overwhelm you. Here, amongst smells of food, glares of ovens, sounds of old songs, Christmas stories and chats with friendly household members it is easy to forget about the problems and fuss of daily life. You can take part in traditional holiday preparations of our ancestors. This will remind how often, while looking for presents during the Christmas hustle, we tend to forget what a real Christmas feeling is about.
Public event schedule may be updated or changed!
