{"id":2698,"date":"2017-02-02T10:07:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T08:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/linnamuuseum.ee\/en\/?page_id=2698"},"modified":"2026-03-13T22:00:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T20:00:49","slug":"about-the-museum","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/linnamuuseum.ee\/en\/the-peoples-museum-of-tallinn\/about-the-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"About the museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 8.25pt 0cm;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Roboto; color: black;\">The People\u2019s Museum of Tallinn, a branch of the Tallinn City Museum, brings together the city\u2019s diverse cultural venues while mediating, preserving, and appreciating the ethnic and cultural variety of the region\u2019s historical legacy.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-95814 alignright\" style=\"font-family: Roboto; orphans: 3; widows: 3;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.linnamuuseum.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Tallinna_rahvaste_muuseum-2-X3-1-400x608.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"317\" height=\"479\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; box-sizing: border-box; orphans: 3; widows: 3; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: start; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8.25pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: Roboto; color: black;\">The Tallinn City Museum branch at Pikk 29a street, also known as the old merchant house from\u00a0the\u00a0<span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; orphans: 3; widows: 3;\">Middle Ages and the location of the artist Ants Laikmaa\u2019s first studio school has long reflected the heritage and traditions of the different peoples living in Tallinn and their contribution to the cultural heritage through its exhibitions.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 8.25pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: Roboto; color: black;\">The street it is located on was one of the city\u2019s trade zones in the Middle Ages. A number of historical details have been preserved in the house, starting from the facade and ending with the vaulted ceiling and wall paintings of the second floor. The building has been rebuilt several times, but its medieval layout can still be guessed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 8.25pt 0cm;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Roboto; color: black; font-weight: normal;\">The People\u2019s Museum of Tallinn introduces the changes in the architecture of the house over the centuries, intertwining the cultural history and the people related to the house.<\/span><\/strong><b><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The People\u2019s Museum of Tallinn, a branch of the Tallinn City Museum, brings together the city\u2019s diverse cultural venues while mediating, preserving, and appreciating the ethnic and cultural variety of the region\u2019s historical legacy. The Tallinn City Museum branch at Pikk 29a street, also known as the old merchant house from\u00a0the\u00a0Middle Ages and the location [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14557,"parent":369,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2698","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linnamuuseum.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2698"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linnamuuseum.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linnamuuseum.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linnamuuseum.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linnamuuseum.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2698"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/linnamuuseum.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105078,"href":"https:\/\/linnamuuseum.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2698\/revisions\/105078"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linnamuuseum.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linnamuuseum.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linnamuuseum.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}