SAAREMAA MUUSEUM, Kuressaare, Estonia

SAAREMAA MUUSEUM
Lossihoov
93830 Kuressaare

Ticket Nº 005666.
15 kr.

The Saaremaa Museum was founded in 1865 by the Saaremaa Uurimise Selts (Saaremaa Research Society), created that same year. In 1925 the collections were transferred to the Kuressaare fortress. In 1940, after the occupation of Estonia by the USSR, its name was changed to Home History Museum, and it recovered its original name during the German occupation (1941-1944), and in June 1947 it was opened again to the public, and thereafter the collections of the department of history and natural history were completed. In 1949 the Soviet authorities added the departments for Socialist Reconstruction and Patriotic War. In 1959 it changed its name again to the Saaremaa House History Museum, and in 1990 the original name was definitively restored: Saaremaa Museum. In 1991, after the proclamation of the Republic of Estonia, items introduced during the Soviet era were removed from the museum. In subsequent years, the spaces of the fortress were remodeled, which in 2003 was nominated for the UNESCO World Heritage List.

Traveler's collection.