The exhibition is accompanied by an education programme and lecture series, which commences in autumn and introduces important topics connected to water purification and consumption.<\/span><\/p>\n Curator<\/b>: Villu Kadakas<\/span><\/p>\n Design and construction: <\/b>O\u00dc Vihmakass ja Kakerdaja (Johanna-Mai and Kaur Riismaa)<\/span><\/p>\n Team: Toomas Abiline, Kristiina Hiiesalu, Aet Laast, Annely Miil, Jaan M\u00e4rss, Merike Neidorp, Maarja Olli, Triin Siiner, K\u00fcllike Tint, Julia Voinova<\/span><\/p>\n Exhibition supported by AS Tallinna Vesi<\/span><\/p>\n Exhibition open\u00a0 until 15 May 2019<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Clean water is a prerequisite of life. Settlements have always been established near a spring or river with clean water. In the early days of Tallinn the town\u2019s people sourced their water from single wells dug on their own plot of land. Springs in the surrounding area were highly valued and water was delivered in barrel carts to the homes of the town\u2019s people. Tallinn also had its own river \u2013 the little H\u00e4rjapea, which supplied the inhabitants on the outskirts with water. Because of its steep descent many watermills were built on the upper and middle reaches. As a great achievement for its time a stone aqueduct was built from Lake \u00dclemiste to Harju gate in the 14th century. From there the water filled the moat on the southern and eastern side of the city, and even there it turned the wheels of many mills.<\/span><\/p>\n In the early 15th century the city started to build wooden pipes, which directed the water from the millponds to the public wells located in the streets. It was not until the middle of the 19th century that the wooden pipes were replaced with modern cast iron pipes. To supply Toompea with water a new network of pipes was laid in the 1880s, with a pump house and water tower in T\u00f5nism\u00e4e.<\/span><\/p>\n Even in the early 20th century, water quality for the people of Tallinn was not something to get excited about. \u201cWho hasn\u2019t seen yellowish water flow from the taps, containing tiny fish, horsehair worms and other representatives of the animal kingdom,\u201d wrote one newspaper at the time.<\/span><\/p>\n In the mid 1920s, the city government ordered the first water treatment plant to be built. However, soon the original Lake \u00dclemiste could no longer supply the rapidly expanding city with enough water. In the 1920s, the water from Pirita River was directed to Lake \u00dclemiste, and in the Soviet period reservoirs were added and the lake was connected with J\u00e4gala River. The new suburbs of Mustam\u00e4e, \u00d5ism\u00e4e and Lasnam\u00e4e were built right from the start with a water supply.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The exhibition \u201cWatery stories of Tallinn\u201d provides a thorough overview of how the town\u2019s people were supplied with water and the history of water use through the centuries. In the exhibition you can follow the course of the H\u00e4rjapea River and canal through the present day city and see the one-time location of water pipes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":19191,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,77],"tags":[115],"class_list":["post-19299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kiek-in-de-kok-en","category-expired","tag-kok-exhibition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linnamuuseum.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19299"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linnamuuseum.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linnamuuseum.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linnamuuseum.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linnamuuseum.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19299"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/linnamuuseum.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25546,"href":"https:\/\/linnamuuseum.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19299\/revisions\/25546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linnamuuseum.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linnamuuseum.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linnamuuseum.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linnamuuseum.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"\/\/www.linnamuuseum.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Veeplakat.jpg\")
\u201cWatery stories of Tallinn: The History of Tallinn\u2019s water supply\u201d<\/b><\/h4>\n