University of Tartu Natural History Museum

The University of Tartu Natural History Museum is the oldest museum in Estonia, and it offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore Earth's living and non-living natural history. The museum's displays cover a wide range of topics, including geology, meteorites, fossils, and evolution. Visitors can stand face-to-face with a lion, explore sparkling minerals, listen to a common chaffinch sing, or examine an elephant skeleton. The museum's exhibits feature a diverse array of creatures, great and small, safely behind glass. With over 220 years of fascinating stories, science, and history gathered in one place, visitors will learn about a wide range of discoveries. Explanatory texts are available in both Estonian and English, making it accessible to a wide range of visitors.