IN THE SPOTLIGHT

• Estonian Puppet Theatre

  
  Tallinn » Sightseeing » Tallinn for kids

  The elaborate Puppet Theatre has been a staple of local entertainment since 1952. It also houses an extensive, high-tech museum that deals with puppet theatre history and pretty much anything else related to the 'puppet-verse'. Read on
  

• Estonian Open Air Museum

  
  Tallinn » Sightseeing » Great outdoors

  Nearly 100 farm buildings nestle on 80ha of forest in Rocca al Mare, on the shore of the Kopli Gulf. Informative signs in Estonian, Russian, English and German guide you through 150 years of farming history. Read on
  

• Estonian Experience

  
  Tallinn » Sightseeing » Sightseeing tours

  If you've come to Tallinn just for a weekend and want to make the most of your limited time, or if you want to enjoy the premium service of having your personal private guide - why not check out the private tours of Estonian Experience? Their carefully selected guides delight in providing you with warm and personalized service and will tailor the excursion to suit your pace and p Read on
  

• Tallinn City Museum

  
  Tallinn » Sightseeing » History museums

  By far, the most modern and complete introduction to Tallinn. Appropriately built into a 14th-century merchant house, the City Museum houses elaborate displays, with English captions, demonstrating various aspects of Tallinn life through the ages. Read on
  

• Seaplane Harbour & Museum

  
  Tallinn » Sightseeing » Speciality museums

  Set to open May 11th, the Seaplane Harbour and Museum will certainly fill in a lot of the blanks when it comes to Estonia's maritime history. Read on
  

• Kadriorg Palace

  
  Tallinn » Sightseeing » Kadriorg

  Italian master architect Niccolo Michetti designed this magnificent, Northern Baroque palace in 1718 at the request of Russian Tsar Peter the Great, who intended to use it as a summer residence for the royal family. Read on
  

• Niguliste Church - Museum

  
  Tallinn » Sightseeing » Lower Town

  Tallinn's most famous work of art, a wall-sized fragment of Bernt Notke's spooky, 15th-century masterpiece Dance Macabre, has its home in this 13th-century Gothic church-turned art museum. Read on
  

• Kiek in de Kök

  
  Tallinn » Sightseeing » Toompea Hill

  Built 1475 - 1481, this 45m, six-storey cannon tower played a key role in the Livonian War and still has nine of Ivan IV's cannonballs embedded in its walls to prove it. Read on