Estonian Maritime Museum — Attraction in Tallinn

We bought the combined tickets for both the Maritime Museum and Lennusadam (seaplane harbor museum) to save 5 Euros. We ended up spending the entire day at the two museums-there is so much to see! If you like to take it slow and try to absorb something from what is on display, you can easily spend your entire day at these two museums. The Maritime Museum is in the Fat Margaret Tower and gives an overview of Estonia maritime history from oldest to most recent as you ascend the floors in the tower. There is extensive use of multimedia and interactive displays (great if you have kids), along with placards containing historical information in multiple languages for all of the maps, photos, artifacts, and ship models. The exhibition finishes on the open top of the tower. There is seating available and it looks like there is a cafe, but it was closed during...

The northernmost tower of the city wall is impossible to miss: the Fat Margaret (Paks Margareeta). The tower was built between 1511 and 1530 during the reconstruction of the medieval city gate system. The imposing artillery tower has, partly due to the 5-meter thick walls, a diameter of 25 meters, and a height of 20 meters. The tower guarded the harbor and together with the Great Coastal Gate (Suur Rannavärav) it forms the connection between the city and the harbor. Originally, the Fat Margaret was simply called the "Round Tower" and then the "New Tower of the Rose Garden", and it was not until 1842 that the tower received its current (nick)name. The tower has been used as a gunpowder depot, barracks and prison, but since the renovation of 1978-81, the tower houses the Estonian Maritime Museum (Eesti...

surprisingly disappointing. interesting perhaps to keep a busload of kids entertained during a school trip, but an overkill of screens, buttons, loudspeakers and objects to play with, does not necessarily increase interactivity.

for instance, what good does an award-winning audiovisual installation do when one exchanges acoustics for cacophony?

honestly, it felt more like the maritime toy department of a scandinavian furniture store than "the most popular museum in Estonia".

also, the diving suit at the entrance seems like an interesting relic borrowed from another museum. why not give visitors at least a few details of the historical background of this eyecatching yet...