Estonian Open Air Museum

Twelve farmyards, a church, a tavern, a schoolhouse, several mills, a fire station and net sheds make up the Estonian Open Air Museum (Eesti Vabaõhumuuseum), a life-sized reconstruction of an 18th- and 19th-century rural and fishing village. It covers 72 hectares at Rocca al Mare, 8 km west of Tallinn's city centre. Buildings from across Estonia stand singly and in groups, together giving an overview of the country's vernacular architecture over the past two centuries.

The oldest exhibit is the Sutlepa Chapel of the Noarootsi Swedish church, recorded since 1670. Newer additions carry the story into recent times. One is a 1960s Soviet apartment building brought from a former kolkhoz, or collective farm, in southern Estonia, which opened to visitors in 2021. Another is a prefabricated wooden house built at the museum in 2019.

The idea for the museum dates to 1913, when Estonian literati inspired by Scandinavian open-air museums proposed one. It was founded in 1957 and opened to visitors in 1964.