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Architecture & Arts Centre of Estonia
East of the Old Town, lies this beautifully restored limestone warehouse that once served as the city's saltcellar. Today, the Rotterman Salt Storage as it is known, houses in its massive space the Estonian Museum of Architecture, with its permanent architecture exhibitions.
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Foreign Art Museum
The Foreign Art Museum , housed in the magnificent Kadriorg Palace, makes for a dreamy hour or so - the 17th- and 18th-century foreign art is mainly unabashedly romantic, and the palace unabashedly splendid.
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Kadriorg Palace
The Kadriorg Palace , built in 1718-36, and its surrounding park, were designed for Peter the Great for his wife Catherine I. It's home to the Foreign Art Museum.
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Kiek-in-de-Kök
One of Tallinn's most formidable cannon towers is the tall, stout Kiek-in-de-Kök. Its name is Low German for 'Peep into the Kitchen'; from the upper floors lonely soldiers could peer into the houses of the Lower Town.
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KUMU
Close to the Kadriorg Palace is the new KUMU , the country's largest museum by far. A spectacular, massive structure of limestone and green glass, it contains a large amount of Estonian art as well as constantly changing contemporary exhibits.
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Linnamuuseum
A medieval merchant's home at Vene tänav 17, on the corner of Pühavaimu tänav, houses Tallinn's most interesting museum - the Linnamuuseum , which traces Tallinn's development through to 1940.
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Museum of Occupation and Fight for Freedom
The Museum of Occupation and Fight for Freedom , just down the hill from Toompea, is a new and worthwhile exhibit on Estonia's history of occupation, focusing on the most recent Soviet one.
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Niguliste Church
The majestic Niguliste Church , a minute's walk south of Raekoja plats(Town Hall Square), is now used to stage concerts and serves as a museum of religious art. At the foot of the slope below the Niguliste Church is the carefully exposed wreckage of the buildings that stood here before the Soviet bombing of Tallinn on the night of 9 March 1944.
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Peter the Great Home Museum
In Kadriorg Park, behind the Kadriorg Palace is the cottage Peter the Great occupied on visits to Tallinn while the palace was being built. Today it houses the Peter the Great Home Museum where you may examine his clothes and the boots he made. There's also a small collection of 18th-century furnishings.
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Pikk tänav
Pikk tänav , running north from Raekoja plats (Town Hall Square) to the Great Coast Gate and the Paks Margareeta (Fat Margaret Bastion) - the medieval exit to Tallinn port - is lined with many 15th-century houses of medieval merchants and gentry. Also here are the buildings of several old Tallinn guilds and some museums.
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