One of the best surprises on our holiday was the open air museum,
out of town at Rocca al Mare.
Kullumaa is in Western Estonia, was the home of a family called
Sassi-Jaani. The farmyard has an ingenious gate.
The whole farm was brought to the museum in 1959, but unfortunately
burned down in 1984, so the houses are copies. This shot shows
the well with the dwellinghouse in the background.
One other picture of note shows their summer kitchen.
Here is an exhibition of the different styles of corner joints builders
made when building log cabins.
The cattleshed was (according to the guidebook), home to 2 to 3 horses,
4 to 6 oxen, 2 cows and (if they lived inside in the winter) 4 to 6
sheep.
Everything was made out of wood:
Anything to do with storing food, or growing it:
Even the shear on the upper of these two ploughs is wood. It
isn't too hard to see why this museum was a good propaganda boost for
Soviet housing programmes. And industrialisation:
The next farm was the Köstriaseme. The guidebook did not say
whether this was the name of the tenants, the owners, or the place it
came from.