We also found out that Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip have stayed here. Also, Prince Charles at another time.
We spent the morning at the Kumu Art Museum. Both the architecture and the contents were stunning.
It has been great going to the art museums in the three Baltic countries. They all have pretty much the same history. Czarist Russia with a French influence, then WWII with a reduction in art, then the soviet period with prescribed painting types, and finally independence in the early 90s.
Roman Nyman, 1925, Lime-Trees
Arnold Akberg, 1924, View from Toompea Hill in Tallinn
Guess which period this is.
Elmar Kits & Elvad Okas, 1952, Estonian Red Army Solders with Lenin and Stalin.
The artists were also somewhat subversive by painting seemingly innocent subjects and getting away from the Socialist Realist style
Ludmilla Siim, 1974 Yellow Light
When we left the art museum, we wandered through a park with a great amusement park for small kids.
We then went to the market. It was lots of fun.
Five kinds of lox.
The cheese shop.
Then we went back to Old Town and wandered a few streets we hadn't visited. We found some surprising Art Nouveau buildings.
These buildings are called the three sisters and date back to the 1300s.
We had dinner at a wonderful restaurant called Tchaikovsky--with his portraits all around the restaurant and music playing.
This was our dessert.
Tomorrow we take a ferry to Helsinki.
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