KUMU Art Museum: This branch of the Art Museum of Estonia recently opened in 2006. This is one of the most popular tourist destinations because it contains both ancient art as well as contemporary pieces. In addition to art, there is a really nice cafe on the first floor of the museum and in the summer you can sit on the terrace and enjoy a coffee and a view of the park.
Kadriorg Art Museum: Housed in this magnificent northern baroque palace, built by Peter the Great for his wife, Catherine, in 1718, the museum and the surrounding park is well worth a visit. This is the home to the foreign art collection of the Art Museum of Estonia. The Kadriorg Art Museum displays hundreds of 16th- to 20th-century paintings by Western and Russian artists, as well as prints, sculptures and other works. While here, don't miss the decadent, two-storey main hall, with its elaborately painted ceiling and stucco work, or the room used as an office by Estonia's head of state before the nearby Presidential Palace was built.
Estonian Open Air Museum: This museum on the outskirts of Tallinn in Rocca al Mare lets you travel back in time to the rural Estonia of old. The vast, forested park is filled with thatched, 18-20th-century farm buildings, windmills, a wooden chapel and a village school, with staff demonstrating how people lived and worked in times past. Visitors can buy handicrafts and try out the traditional food served in the village tavern.
Tallinn City Museum: The Tallinn City Museum is probably the best historical museum in the city because the displays of artifacts and life-like models are very good. The museum also contains an exhibit on what life was like in Estonia during the 20th century – including the country’s wars and how it became an independent nation.
Town Prison - Museum of Photography: This museum is all about photography, and it just so happens to be located within an old 15th-century building which used to hold all of the town’s criminals. Anyone interested in cameras and photography should not miss this exhibit.
Doll Museum: If any children are on vacation in Tallinn , they will thoroughly enjoy the doll museum. All sorts of dolls – ranging from antique to modern – are housed in this museum. It’s a real treat for kids to see and it’s a fun collection for adults to enjoy too.
SHIFARA Gallery is the oldest and biggest art and antiques gallery in Estonia founded in 1990. The Gallery got its name from the founder. The Gallery offers in large selection collectables and antique items – coins, orders, medals, stamps and other philately, paper money, signatures, maps, historical photos, postcards…The special field of activities is selling original Russian, Estonian and European art classics and antiquities: paintings, graphics, sculptures, icons, porcelain (Meissen Sevres), gold and silver items (Faberge, Ovchinnikov) and jewelry.