Koidula Museum – the National Awakening of Estonia

The permanent exhibition of Koidula Museum tells the life story of Lydia Koidula (1843–1886), a famous poet and publicist of the Estonian national awakening, who spent her youth in Pärnu. The museum is in the house where she lived from 1850 to 1863, known as the Pärnu Ülejõe Schoolhouse, where her father J. V. Jannsen, also called the father of Estonian-language journalism, worked as schoolmaster.

You can learn about their lives and activities in the context of the national awakening, see a typical mid-19th-century school and home, and find out how journalism in Estonia began (the newspaper Perno Postimees, 1857). The charming yellow wooden house and its garden carry the spirit of the 19th-century national awakening. The exhibition is available in English, Finnish and Russian.

Friday 20 November, 10:00, Koidula Museum, J. V. Jannseni 37, Pärnu.