Koidula Museum: National Awakening of Estonia. Birthday price

Birthday special: 13% off museum tickets.

The permanent exhibition of Koidula Museum tells the life story of Lydia Koidula (1843–1886), the famous poet and publicist of the national awakening in Estonia, who spent her youth in Pärnu.

The museum is in the house where she lived from 1850 to 1863, the Pärnu Ülejõe schoolhouse, where her father J. V. Jannsen, known as the father of Estonian journalism, was the schoolmaster.

You can learn about their lives and work in the context of the national awakening, see a typical school and home of the mid-19th century, and find out how journalism in Estonian began with the newspaper Perno Postimees (1857). The yellow wooden house and its garden are full of the spirit of that time.

The exhibition is available in English, Finnish and Russian.