Information and booking: booking@meremuuseum.ee / tel: +372 6200 550 (Mon–Fri 9–17)
This tour is for visitors interested in the history and construction of the icebreaker.
In 1914, the steam-powered icebreaker Tsar Mikhail Feodorovich arrived in Tallinn. She had been built in Stettin, Germany, specially for the Port of Tallinn and was, at that time, the most modern and technically advanced icebreaker in the entire world. Today, she bears the name Suur Tõll (after the mythological Estonian hero) and is the world’s largest steam-powered icebreaker preserved in her original form. A tour of the ship will unfold a grand officers’ mess, authentic steam engines and a rough boiler room. Fascinating stories will give us an insight into the ship’s exciting and convoluted history from her arrival in Tallinn and the anxious war years up to becoming a museum ship.
This tour is for visitors interested in the history of the Seaplane Harbour as well as the Suur Tõll icebreaker.
We shall begin our visit from the surface world in the Seaplane Hangars, with stories from under the water, from the surface and from above the water. From there we shall move on to the Seaplane Harbour quay, accommodating the Suur Tõll, the world’s largest steam-powered icebreaker preserved in her original form. A tour of the ship will unfold a grand officers’ mess, authentic steam engines and a rough boiler room. Fascinating stories will give us an insight into the ship’s exciting and convoluted history from her arrival in Tallinn and the anxious war years up to becoming a museum ship.
The tour will take 45 minutes in the Seaplane Hangars and 40 minutes on board the Suur Tõll.
Information and booking: booking@meremuuseum.ee / tel: +372 6200 550 (Mon–Fri 9–17)
12 May marked the tenth anniversary of the opening of the Seaplane Hangar of the Seaplane Harbour as a maritime museum. The Estonian Maritime Museum invited its employees and partners to a festive reception.
The Estonian Maritime Museum has started preparations for preserving the Lootsi shipwreck. If everything goes as planned, the conservation of one of the largest wrecks in Northern Europe can also be observed in the Ship Hall.
Bookings:+372 6200 550 (Mon–Fri 9–17), except on national holidays
booking@meremuuseum.ee
Vesilennuki tee 6, Tallinn
Open Mon–Sun 10–19; June 5th 10-17
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