Visit Estonia: all the best for children!

During the autumn school holidays, the small Baltic country offers a lot of entertainment for children and teenagers, for example, adventures in the witching kingdom, an exhibition of prehistoric animals and even a virtual space travel.

Estonian Road Museum

The Estonian Road Museum at the historical postal station Varbuse, in Southern Estonia, introduces the development of roads and modes of transport through interactive displays that will be interesting to adults and adolescents. Especially for the youngest visitors, the Children's Museum recently opened on the second floor, where the mysterious Beast of Time lives, who is looking forward to meeting to teach them better understanding of time and to reason together that it is time - so invisible and restless. In addition, children will learn to write letters and read maps, learn about the work of the postal service from the beginning of time to the present day, and also can have fun in the Fairytale Room.

The Estonian Road Museum is included in the list of 21 unique objects in Southern Estonia, which are indicated by the yellow National Geographic window and are recommended for visiting all lovers of history and nature.

Opening hours from 11.00 to 17.00, admission - from 8 euros, for preschoolers free of charge.

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The witching kingdom of the ancient valley of Ukhtyarve

In the same area of Võru County, fearless children and their parents can visit the smallest and most special kingdom in the world - The witching kingdom of the ancient valley of Ukhtyarve - and even spend the night in it, for example, in a hut on chicken legs. Exciting legends about the area, football on chairs, throwing a magic broom - the list of entertainment can be continued endlessly. By the way, next to the kingdom is the Automobile City, where children can learn how to drive a car safely, drive on the highway, study traffic and even make-believe refuel at a gas station. Excursion - from 4 euros per person, overnight - from 20 euros.

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Child Center Rõõmupisik and Zoo-Cafe

If the weather is not good, family travelers should go to the seaside outskirts of Tallinn, where the two-story children's center Rõõmupisik at the Tallinn Viimsi SPA Hotel with an area of 1000 m2 is located. Here, children of any age will find plenty of entertainment: for small visitors, the club has a playground for games with high slides, rally simulators, rooms for air hockey, table football and tennis, as well as a playroom for the smallest, where the child can be left under the supervision of teachers. In addition, the club has a cinema and a ZOO-cafe, in which various animals live - rodents, rabbits, lizards and poultry.

Rõõmupisik is open daily from 10.00 to 21.00, entrance - from 3.5 euros.

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Children's Museum Miiamilla

Children's Museum Miiamilla - This is a game environment in which children from 3 to 11 years old can not only have fun, but also learn many things: for example, learn how to care for nature, listen to stories about the starry sky in the stargazer tower and make music. The museum operates in a colorful house with a turret, built in 1937 as the main building of the Children's Park, nicknamed the "children's paradise" and located in Kadriorg, the park ensemble of Catherine II in the center of Tallinn.

The museum is open daily, admission is from 4 euros.
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Flight harbor

The most interesting maritime museum in Europe is located in Flight Harbor. About 200 authentic exhibits have been exhibited in historical seaplane hangars: a real Lembit submarine, a hundred-year-old icebreaker Suur Tull, the Short 184 seaplane, the skeleton of the oldest Estonian ship, and much more. Around-the-world trip on a submarine, photographing in marine suits, an aquarium, simulators, throwing paper planes, a children's corner with drawing accessories, cubes and a real sailboat, a playground on the street - programs and intended for independent visits expand the horizons of both children and adults.

The museum also has a MARU café and a gift shop. Opening hours - from 10.00 to 18.00, admission - from 3 euros.

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Science Center Axaa

Want to surprise yourself? The AXXAA Science Center in Tartu offers not only scientific knowledge, exciting activities, adventures and useful skills, but also a pleasant pastime. The center has created an ideal learning environment and all the conditions for acquiring new knowledge. Most of the exhibitions, whether it is a planetarium where you can take a virtual space journey, a pilot program of a school laboratory, workshops of natural sciences or a scientific theater, are built on the principle of "try it yourself." At least 3 hours should be allowed to visit the center - you won’t even notice how time flies!

Opening hours - 10.00 to 19.00, admission - from 4 euros.

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Ice Age Center

The ice age center in the suburbs of Tartu is a theme park for the whole family, a place where in one house you can in an entertaining way learn the history of the past planet, predict our future and learn about the human impact on the environment. Here you can see life-size prehistoric animals, go through an educational program on natural history, and even find answers to questions about the origin of the universe. But they don’t forget about the fun in the center either: fascinating quests were developed for children, game caves were equipped for archaeological excavations and a cinema where cartoons were shown.