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For meetingsPärnu Museum – 11,000 Years of History
Times and prices
01.06.24 - 31.12.24
10:00 - 18:00
7.00€
27.00€
The permanent exhibition of the Pärnu Museum spans 11,000 years, from the Stone Age to the modern era, and provides an overview of the history of the entire region and Estonia. The aura of past millennia and centuries can be felt through authentic objects, new knowledge, games, and experience corners. Through traditional and interactive solutions, you can stroll through five exhibition halls and watch historical newsreels about the history of Pärnu in the cinema hall located between them.
The museum's exhibition features several of our collection's highlights: a fragment of a Hanseatic cog from the 14th century, the medieval New Pärnu city gate and town wall ruins, the weather vane of the former main city church, St. Nicholas Church tower rooster, a more than 8000-year-old so-called Stone Age Madonna from the Pulli settlement period, a New Pärnu city pilgrim badge from the Hanseatic times, the sundial on the building of Academia Pernaviensis, the university operating in Pärnu during the Swedish era, the first Estonian-language Bible from 1739, a bound volume of the newspaper “Perno Postimees”, a chessboard, which contained hidden letters from the Estonian President Konstantin Päts, who was in office until the occupation began in 1940, to the Estonian people and the League of Nations, a Soviet-era standardized living room and much, much more fascinating items.
In addition to the permanent exhibition, the museum has an entire separate floor for temporary exhibitions. This summer, visitors are awaited by the creativity of Estonian female artists in the exhibition "Harmony".
