03.10.26
Events
Onion and fish day and Seto Michaelmas Day
How could one possibly not mark with honor the end of the autumn fieldwork and grazing season? At the Onion and Fish Day of the borderlands, you are awaited by celebrations of the harvest festival of the Seto people and the Russian Old Believers.
Both peoples are famed as skilled farmers and fishermen, so at the fair visitors will be able to buy the finest Lake Peipus onions, all sorts of fish, and more. In the Old Believer’s house from the Peipus area at the Estonian Open Air Museum, as well as at the Seto farmstead, one can explore the culinary traditions and crafts of the people of Peipus and the Seto community.
Free entry with the museum card, Tallinn Card, and the annual pass of the Estonian Open Air Museum!
Both peoples are famed as skilled farmers and fishermen, so at the fair visitors will be able to buy the finest Lake Peipus onions, all sorts of fish, and more. In the Old Believer’s house from the Peipus area at the Estonian Open Air Museum, as well as at the Seto farmstead, one can explore the culinary traditions and crafts of the people of Peipus and the Seto community.
Village meadow between the Seto farmstead Vanatalo and the Pechonkin Old Believer’s house from Peipus
11:00–16:00
Fair of Peipus onions, fish, other foods, and more.
12:30 Concert of the Seto leelo choir Sõsarõ.
14:00 Performance “The Story of the Samovar”Barn of the Seto farmstead Vanatalo
11:00–16:00 Special menu served by Kolu Inn.
Old log house of Vanatalo farmstead
11:00–16:00 Workshop on making lucky dolls.
New log house of Vanatalo farmstead
11:00–16:00 Cooking Seto dishes.
Pechonkin Old Believer’s house from Peipus
11:00-16:00 Cooking Old Believer dishes.
12:00-15:00 Pavel Varunin`s Workshop (Old Believers printmaking).
Free entry with the museum card, Tallinn Card, and the annual pass of the Estonian Open Air Museum!
Events
11.11.25 - 29.09.26
Exhibitions
Traditional Seto patterns by Anna Kõivo
At the age of 88, Kõivo Anne created the current exhibition
of hammõkirät – the sleeve patterns of Seto women’s shirts. The shirt is
one of the most striking garments in a Seto woman’s attire.
23.04.26 - 28.09.26
Events
Summer Season at the Open Air Museum
All farms, Sutlepa chapel, Lau village shop, collective farm apartment building and factory building are open every day. Children can test themselves on the Shepherd`s adventure trail.
18.05.26 - 28.09.26
Exhibitions
Exhibition: ‘Happiness is upon us! Long live collective farming!’
For country people, the Stalinist period marked the end of private
farming and the transition to Soviet-style collective farms. The exhibition looking at rural life during the
Stalinist era largely through the eyes of those who lived through it.
29.09.26
Events
Michaelmas Day
The 29th of September is St.
Michael’s Day
or Michaelmas Day. This day was the end of the summer working season and
in Estonian Open Air Museum
it also marks the start of the winter season.