At Children’s Museum Miiamilla, children are not just visitors – they are co-creators. While developing the permanent exhibition, the museum also invited the Self-Help and Advisory Association for Senior Citizens to join the creative journey. 

The permanent exhibition “Children’s World Spaces” has been created together with children. Ideas, drawings, emotions, and imagination from 3–10-year-olds inspired unique emotion creatures, playful costumes, sensory spaces, and discovery-based games. Everywhere in Miiamilla, you can feel children’s thoughts, voices, and creativity.

But Miiamilla grows through community too. Here, playful encounters bring generations closer together — encouraging children and adults alike to share memories, skills, stories, and curiosity.

A garden that grows all year long

In summer, vegetables grow in the tiny garden behind the museum. Indoors, however, the harvest never ends. The playful garden bed’s lifelike soil was created by prop artist Annika Aedma, while the very first crocheted vegetables were made by Maarja Helina Lillemets.

Children can dig, plant, discover colours and shapes, imagine flavours, and even invent funny names for their vegetables. Through play, they learn how plants grow and how to care for nature.

Together with the Self-Help and Advisory Association for Senior Citizens, the play garden continued to flourish. Guided by Siiri Ristikivi, members of the craft group crocheted familiar vegetables traditionally grown in Estonian home gardens. Skilled hands contributed to shaping the garden with their experience, craftsmanship, and heartfelt warmth.

This beautiful collaboration shows how different generations can grow something meaningful together – a playful environment where children feel inspired, cared for, and connected. Miiamilla warmly thanks everyone who helped bring the garden to life and looks forward to creating many more shared stories in the future.