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Estonian Sports Museum

Anything and everything to do with Estonia's sporting history is on display in this modern museum. Here you'll see photos of early 20th-century bodybuilders, ancient wooden skis and hundreds of medals and awards. Read_on (No Comments)

Museum of the Estonian National Defense College

The Defense College's military museum is chiefly meant for educating cadets, but interested parties can phone ahead, or drop by reception to ask of the curator is around. Read_on (No Comments)

Old Observatory

Opened in 2011, this branch of the Tartu University History Museum takes visitors through the observatory's history from the early-19th-century days of its pioneering director F. Read_on (No Comments)

Paper and Print Museums

Two museums in one house, the Paper Museum and Print Museum are in fact operating workshops where visitors can get in touch with these unique forms of art. Read_on (No Comments)

Postal Museum

This building at Rüütli 15 served as a post office for more than 200 years. Now it's home to both the Sports Museum and the Post Museum. Read_on (No Comments)

Song Festival Museum

Located in the wonderfully restored nineteenth-century Vanemuine society house, this recently opened museum exhibits and showcases the history and ideas behind Estonia’s most powerful display of national identity – The Song Festival. Read_on (No Comments)

Tartu Toy Museum

With more toys than even the most shamefully spoiled of children could possibly imagine, this museum could easily keep most youngsters, and probably more than a few adults, wide-eyed for hours. Read_on (No Comments)

University of Tartu Natural History Museum

This museum houses both geology and zoology exhibitions, but if you think this is just another collection of bones and rocks, you’re wrong. Read_on (No Comments)