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The Estonian Open Air Museum invites you to enjoy the festive season

27. November, 2025 - 11. January, 2026
27.11.25 - 11.01.26
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The Estonian Open Air Museum invites you to enjoy the festive season

Adult 14€
Discount 10€
Family 30€

Free entrance with Tallinn Card.

The Estonian Open Air Museum invites you to enjoy the festive season – to stroll through a historical landscape, breathe in the invigorating forest and sea air, sample Christmas dishes at the Kolu Inn, step into cozy farmhouses, shop for gifts at the Lau village store, take a ride in a horse-drawn carriage, and have a wonderful time together with your loved ones.

The Estonian Open Air Museum is open Tuesday through Sunday from 10:00 to 19:00 (entrance from 10:00 to 17:00). Pre-booked events are also held on Mondays. We will also be open to all visitors on two December Mondays — December 22 and 29.

We are closed on December 24–25, 2025, as well as on December 31, 2025, and January 1, 2026.

Additional information about opening hours is available here.

Special Christmas lunch menu at Kolu Inn

Kolu Inn offers a special festive menu that is available from 30 November to 11 January, you can view it here.


If you are planning a Christmas lunch for a group, see the festive and Christmas table menus here. The inn’s master’s chamber is suitable for warm gatherings of up to 18 people, and the banquet hall (the former stable) can accommodate up to 120 guests. Additional information about the rooms and booking options is available here.

Gifts of experience and events between the holidays

The friendly shopkeepers of the Lau village store – now sporting a new red roof after the summer – have wrapped plenty of candy bundles, a perfect addition to a child’s gift.

A family gift card for the Estonian Open Air Museum will also fit nicely into Santa’s bag. It is valid for 365 calendar days and allows you to plan your museum visit at a convenient time. The price of a family gift card is €38.


Gingerbread boxes with shepherd boy Ants and Muri stickers will be on sale at the cash desk, in the kolhoz apartment building and in the Lau village shop. The dough was made and the animal-shaped gingerbreads were baked by our hostess. The box contains almost all the animals and birds of the museum farm: sheep, goats, rabbits, turkeys, geese, roosters and hens, as well as the cat Vasso and horses. In winter, the herd is in the barn and shepherd boy Ants is at school, but the animals need care and attention all the time. We use 100% of the total sales proceeds from these gingerbreads for the welfare of the animals and birds of the museum farm. One box costs 5 euros and each buyer does a good deed for our animals.
Yarn spun from the wool of the museum's sheep can be purchased at the ticket office.

The handicrafts made by the museum's hostesses can be admired and purchased from the stall next to the ticket office, which has a sign saying Krapsakad Moorid.


Activities between the holidays December 26- December 30

  • In the Kuie schoolhouse you can write your New Year's wishes on a postcard 
and then drop them in the mailbox at the museum gate.
  • At the Setu farm you can make crafts from various materials.
  • At the Peipsivene house, beeswax candles are made (for a small fee).
  • At the Härjapea farm, small paper angels are made. 
  • Gingerbread is baked in the collective farm house. On 26.12 there will even be 
a gingerbread baking workshop, where every visitor can flour their hands and 
bake their own gingerbread (fee 1 EUR).
  • In the Kolga barn-shed, the hostess introduces visitors to the farm animals and poultry from Thursday to Sunday at 11:00, 13:00, and 15:00.
  • New Year’s fortune-telling will take place at the Seto farmstead and at the Old Believer’s homestead from the Lake Peipus region on January 11. 

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