Museum of New Art — Attraction in Pärnu linn

Many museums in Estonia used to just be dusty rooms with someone's old crap on display and old ladies guarding the coats. Sadly, the downstairs gallery at this museum is still that way. I went to the "Metslased" exhibit, because I'm a major fan of Kaupo Kikkas's photography. But this "gallery" turned out to be just an old bank which has never been renovated--security cameras still hang above the filthy, worn carpeting where the tellers stood. The lighting has never been updated, which hardly matters since the staff did not turn on the lights even after we asked. The art is poorly displayed and difficult to see in the cave-like darkness of this, um, gallery. Kikkas' photos are great as expected, but the others on display, while they may have historic value in cataloguing trees, are not worthy of an art gallery. Their reproduction quality is poor and they are cheaply mounted on foamcore and stuck to the wall with nails. Things used to be cheap in Estonia, and so it wasn't a big deal if you paid for something and were disappointed. But things have changed now. They should pay you to visit this gallery, not the other way around. What can I say that's nice? The lady selling tickets was nice, but the downstairs gallery is a ripoff that the City of Pärnu...

If you're an art lover - please don't go here. Save yourself. The ticket is expensive (better donate those 7 eur for some good purpose) having in mind the size of the museum inside... and the collection of art (at least the one I saw) was very sad. There were few good artworks, but mainly it looked like works of someome who wanted to be Rene Magrit or in other and even worst case has no...

When my family and I were trying to enter the museum, the lady at the ticket booth was so rude. She was snappy and it almost seemed like she did not want us to go yo the museum. She was not believing my family qualified for a family ticket and asked for my grandmother ( 76 years old) proof of being a pensioner. All of this was such a negative experience, that we ended up not going to the...