Tallinn, 2004

Ecological Museum (Part 2)

The next farm we came to was the Pulga farm from Kuusalu (you cannot escape the thought that Scrabble would be an easier game if one were allowed Estonian place names).

Pulga

This is a large farm
Pulga, Outbuildings
In which the farmhouse had an exhibition of traditional rugs.

Pulga, Rugs 1
Apparently, red and black are the traditional colours.
Pulga, Rugs 2
All the houses had a guardian, and most of them wore traditional clothes.
Pulga, guardian with hen
We also noticed that the garden produce was being collected  - we may even have eaten it that evening!

Windmills

The museum has several windmills.
Vanasauna windmill

I suppose, given the amount of wind energy Sweden and Denmark generate, we should not be surprised to see that windmills are a traditional feature of the Estonian landscape. This one was a grain mill, at Vanasauna.  The museum also has specimens from West Estonia, reaching back to the 1750s.
Saarema windmill

Fisherman's hut

This is a hut the owner built to let to seasonal fishermen.
Fishermans hut
Quite stumpy fishermen, to judge by the beds.
Fishermans beds

Swedish Church

This church dates back to the 17th Century, and to the Swedes who ruled Estonia before Peter the Great conquered the country. He deported more than 1000 of the Swedes to the Ukraine. Sad to say, most of the remaining Swedes had to flee the country in 1943-44.
Sutlepa Chapel
Sutlepa Chapel Interior
The only flat surface on which I could rest the camera was the floor!

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