Maritime Museum of Tallinn. The Seaplane Harbor in Tallinn is the coolest maritime museum! Maritime museum in Tallinn with underwater

So, a small report on our visit to the branch of the Maritime Museum - Lennusadam Seaplane Harbor.

Lennusadam is part of the Estonian Maritime Museum, founded in 1935, whose permanent exhibition is located in the gun turret Fat Margareta, built in 1529 and part of the Great Sea Gate complex of Tallinn. It introduces the history of navigation and fishing of the country.

The main exposition of the Lennusadam Museum is located in huge hangars built at the beginning of the 20th century and intended for parking seaplanes.
When we were here in January, the hangars were closed, you could only see the ships in the port and the icebreaker. Now the museum is open after renovation:

There is an aquarium, schooners, yachts, coastal defense guns, etc. Also, visitors to the museum can see historical seaplanes and the Lembit submarine.

With the help of the latest technology, the illusion of being in water has been created inside the hangars. The interactive part of the exhibition includes seaplane and submarine simulators, as well as a special attraction where tourists can try their hand at navigating the Tallinn Bay.
We look at the photo (due to the specific lighting, the quality of the photos is not very good, but it gives an idea of ​​​​the place):

The structure of the exposition is strongly reminiscent of the Vasa ship museum in Stockholm: the same dull bluish color, the same gallery around the main exhibits on the second floor.

Even a tank was found

In the center is the Lembit submarine. It can be viewed not only from the outside, but also go down inside.

A little information:
Launching -7 July 1936
Type of ship - Torpedo-mine submarine
Designation of the project - Kalev
Project developer - Vickers and Armstrongs Ltd.
Speed ​​(surface) - 13.5 knots
Speed ​​(underwater) - 8.5 knots
Working depth of immersion - 70 m
Maximum diving depth - 90 m
Endurance of navigation - 20 days
Crew - 32 people (including 4 officers) - EST;
38 people (including 7 officers) -USSR

Maximum length - 59.5 m
Hull width max. - 7.24 m
Power plant - Diesel-electric
Torpedo-mine armament - 4 x 533 mm bow torpedoes, 8 torpedoes, 20 mines

Lembit (Est. Lembit) is an Estonian submarine built in 1937 in the UK by order of the Estonian government, the second ship of the Kalev class. In 1940, the boat became part of the Red Banner Baltic Fleet of the USSR. Since 1979 - a museum ship in Tallinn.

In 1211, the Estonian elder Lembitu led the struggle of the Estonian tribes against the Order of the Sword-bearers that invaded Estonian lands. Lembitu died in battle on September 21, 1217 and is revered in Estonia as a national hero.

On September 18, 1940, the Soviet naval flag was raised on the Lembit. The boat was included in the Baltic Fleet. In this regard, an almost complete renewal of the crew took place on the ship.

During the Great Patriotic War, captain of the second rank Matiyasevich was appointed commander of the boat.

On August 1, 1994, Lembit was included in the list of ships of the Estonian Navy as ship number 1. On May 16, 2011, the naval flag was lowered on the Lembit. On May 20, 2011, Lembit was towed to the slipway and on May 21, 2011 was raised ashore with the help of inflatable pillows.

Until 2011, Lembit was moored in the port of Tallinn and was a branch of the Estonian Maritime Museum, open to the public. Unlike most other museum submarines, which have special entrances for visitors, tourists enter Lembit through one of the entrances provided for by the project - a torpedo loading hatch in the first compartment. The Lembit is one of the few remaining World War II submarines and in 2011 was the world's oldest submarine still afloat. In 2011, the ship was raised from the water and relocated to the royal hangar for seaplanes for dry storage. Access for tourists opened on May 12, 2012.

torpedo tubes

On the open-air site, museum ships are available for visiting. We look:

Basically, the ships are still under repair, so for now they can only be viewed from the outside.

The historical icebreaker Suur Tõll, open to the public, is also located here. Next post about it.

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are included in the list of the most interesting places in the capital of Estonia.

If the Baltic weather let us down (and rainy days are not uncommon in Tallinn), then why not pay attention to the museums of the city. One of the best places in this case is the Lennusadam Seaplane Harbor Museum.

This is what the museum looks like from the inside.
Almost all the exhibits can not only be seen, but also touched, and some can even be climbed into.

The Lennusadam Seaport Museum is a branch of the Estonian Maritime Museum, which will celebrate its 100th anniversary in 2017.

The museum is included in the list of objects of the Estonian Antiquity Preservation, its main exhibition is located in the former hangars intended for seaplanes. Hence the name.

The museum is located in the former military hangars

According to visitor reviews, this is one of the best museums located in the Estonian capital.

In the extensive museum exposition, you can see ships belonging to different eras: a steam icebreaker of the first half of the last century, the Lembit submarine built in the 30s of the twentieth century, and even a sailboat that plied the oceans in the Middle Ages and was raised from the seabed.

Other interesting exhibits include cannons, wooden boats, boats and, of course, a seaplane.

Estonians love modern technologies (few people know that the birthplace of Skype is Estonia, which was one of the first in the European Union to introduce an electronic voting system). The museum in this regard looks simply amazing.

So, instead of a ticket, you will be given a magnetic card, on which you can register an email address. And send the information you are interested in to your mail using the information board.

The description and interface is made in several languages, among which there is Russian.

In addition, almost all the exhibits are available for entertainment - there is an opportunity to "fly" on an airplane, "shoot" from ship's guns, take a walk inside a submarine.

Exposition of the Lennusadam Museum

Some of the exhibits of the museum-hydroairport are located in the open air in the museum harbor, and they can be viewed free of charge. I would especially like to note the steam icebreaker called "Suur Tõll", which at the beginning of the last century sailed under the Andreevsky flag.

The museum has a cafe "Maru", where you can just sit over a cup of coffee and admire the museum exposition.

And here is the seaplane

I do not want to slip into the stamped phrases of tourist prospectuses, but this place really has a special attraction.

Put an interesting museum in your travel notebook, especially if you come here with children - the kind of real technology and tools that you can touch will delight boys of any age - from the smallest to the gray-haired!

Finally, we note that the museum is within walking distance from the center, so getting there is not difficult.

Irina Kuzmina writes from Kaliningrad: After visiting Tallinn last year, I have two unfulfilled wishes. The first is to visit the Flying Harbor Museum and the second is to somehow get into the City Hall, take pictures of the interiors, see what condition the most grandiose cultural and sports complex of the city is in, which the capital of Estonia inherited from the Soviet Union.

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You can start admiring right from the doorstep. After all, the building itself is already the most interesting and unique due to the fact that it is the first and largest unsupported reinforced concrete structure in the world. Built in 1916-1917. as a base for the royal seaplanes. Charles Lindbergh, who made the first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean, landed here in 1930.

3. Layout of the hangar.

But these are all numbers and dry facts, and now imagine what a completely sincere childish delight you experience inside the museum. It's as if you find yourself in a small universe created exclusively for you! No matter how many people there are in the museum, they all somehow evenly disperse around the site and become completely invisible. That's it, you remain alone among the cries of seagulls, the sound of the surf, the incredible hugging indigo and, of course, adventures.

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The space inside the museum is subject to its own unique concept. The inspection begins from the second tier, imitating the surface of the water on which various boats, sailboats, buoys hang. At the bottom (first tier) you can see mines of various configurations, the skeleton of a sailboat of the 1550s. On the right, there is supposedly a pier with artillery pieces and a moored Lembit submarine, and a British torpedo bomber Short-184 from the First World War hovered in the air. Well, how can one not get dizzy from all this military-technical diversity?

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6. At the water level. A 1930s motorboat from Billenes, Finland.

7. Buoys.

8. Seaplane torpedo bomber "Short-184".

9. Sailboats. They look like swans! Beauty!

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But the pearl of the museum is still the Lembit submarine, launched in 1936. Surprisingly, back in 2011, before decommissioning, she was the oldest active submarine in the world! Let's go inside!

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It’s strange, I can’t say that I’m just bastard from all sorts of engineering and technical things, but I’m unlikely to refuse to visit ships, submarines, various ships! I love to look at the engine rooms, all sorts of switches, pipes, wires, adapters and other sensors. It's like poetry and romance, at the same time found their technical embodiment.

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Lembit, by the way, as well as the missing Kalev, are still the only submarines in the history of Estonian navigation. Both were built in England, but they could not really serve their state like that. "Kalev" went missing in 1941, it is assumed that it hit a mine and sank, the wreckage has not yet been found.

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In addition to the exposition in the hangar, you can see the Seaplane Harbor pier, where there are military boats, small, as I understand it, private sailboats and boats, and, of course, the icebreaker Suur Tõll.

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The ship was built in 1914 in Germany at the VulcanWerkeAG shipyard. Once one of the most powerful icebreakers in the world, this ship sailed under the flags of Tsarist Russia, Finland and the Estonian Republic under the names Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich, Volynets, Väinämöinen and Suur Tõll.

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On the ship you can see the engine and boiler rooms, the cabin of the captain and crew, the wardroom, the kitchen, and the exhibition hall.

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This museum is absolutely incredible, you can walk here for half a day for sure, and if you get puzzled and go through all the attractions, then you can disappear for a whole day, and not regret it!

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The interactive exposition of the Maritime Museum in the former Flight Hangars tells about the exciting naval history of Tallinn and Estonia, promising a lot of delight for the whole family.

The most valuable exhibit of the museum's new exposition is the British-built Lembit submarine with a displacement of 600 tons. The submarine was built in 1936 for the Estonian Navy and served in World War II under the Soviet flag. The boat remained in service for 75 years, being the world's oldest operating submarine until last year when it was put ashore.

Another exciting exhibit is a full-size replica of the Short Type 184, a British floatplane that was also used by the Estonian military. It was the first aircraft to attack an enemy ship with a torpedo fired from the air. Since none of the original hydroplanes of this type have survived, the aircraft in the Tallinn Airplane Harbor is the only full-scale copy of this aircraft in the world.

The Seaplane Harbor is a great example of a modern living museum. Everything here is done in order not only to view the exhibits, but to immerse yourself in the atmosphere. Even the interior space and expositions of the museum are divided into three levels, in accordance with the realities of marine life.
The first - underwater level - is the bottom of the museum and the bottom of the sea. Here you can see fish, depth charges and the remains of a sunken ship (a copy of the wooden ship Maasilinna, built in the 16th century). The floor is painted under sea charts indicating the depths and features of the underwater relief. Water in the fixtures under the ceiling creates realistic ripples and reflections on the "bottom" of the sea. A submarine also rests here, but to get into it you need to rise to the surface.

The second is the level of the water surface. Everything that floats on the surface is here, boats, skiffs, large and small buoys, surface structures, coastal weapons. From here, a bridge is thrown to the Lembit submarine, into which you can go down and feel like a real submariner.
The third level is above water, where a hydroplane hovers in free flight. Every 10-15 minutes there is a small performance that simulates a raid on a naval base. An image of an attacking seaplane is projected onto the ceiling. His appearance is accompanied by the roar of engines and the sounds of gunshots, creating a completely realistic picture for museum visitors.

Both children and adults will enjoy "playing" in the museum's interactive areas. For example, you can take off or land a small plane at Tallinn Airport in an airplane simulator, dive in a submarine simulator, try to fly radio-controlled ship models through a small copy of the Tallinn port, shoot down a couple of planes with a coastal anti-aircraft gun, or launch a paper airplane so that he flew through the narrowing tunnel.

Outside the hangars, visitors can view a collection of historic ships, including the Suur Tõll icebreaker, Europe's largest steam-powered icebreaker.

Part of the exposition of the maritime museum, located in shows the peaceful part of maritime history.
Another branch is located in the building of the only powder magazine that has survived in the city (built in 1748). The exposition presents the mines of the navies of England, Germany, Russia, Finland, France and Estonia.

Thanks Julia for the recommendation! True, I came a little late, and two hours for this event is not enough. How to get to the Seaplane Harbor Maritime Museum? You can just walk along the embankment from the center of Tallinn for about 20 minutes maximum.

Where is the Lennusadam (Seaplane Harbor) Maritime Museum located?

The exact address is Vesilennuki 6, 10415 Tallinn, Estonia

The official website of the Lennusadam Maritime Museum is lennusadam.eu

Working hours:

May - September: Mon-Sun 10.00-19.00
October - April: Tue-Sun 10.00-19.00
On public holidays in Estonia, the museum is open from 10.00 to 17.00
from August 5, the icebreaker Suur Tõll is open from 10.00 to 17.00

Entry fee:

Icebreaker "Suur Till":

The whole Seaplane Harbor + "Suur Till":
Adult - 10 €, children, students - 5 €, family ticket - 20 €

The entire Maritime Museum* + "Suur Tõll":

Children under 8 free of charge

Ticket prices for Fat Margaret:
Adult - 5 €, children, students - 3 €, family ticket - 10 €

The entire Maritime Museum (the price includes a visit to the entire territory of the Seaplane Harbor along with hangars, entrance to the Maritime Museum in the Fat Margaret tower):
Adult - 14 €, children, students - 7 €, family ticket - 28 €

Lennusadam (est. Lennusadam) is a seaport in Tallinn on the shore of the Gulf of Tallinn. In the international arena, it is famous for its architectural and historical monuments - reinforced concrete hangars for seaplanes. It is a branch of the Estonian Maritime Museum.

The hydro airport was built in 1916-1917, becoming part of the Sea Fortress of Emperor Peter the Great. In 1996, it was included in the list of protected objects of the Estonian Antiquities Preservation. In May 2012, the Estonian Maritime Museum opened its branch in the hangars.

From seaplanes, only this layout remained:

And then, you can climb to it only on a humpbacked bridge, accompanied by a guide. And if you came to the museum alone, then there is no chance :) But the museum itself is really cool. A bunch of exhibits on maritime and military topics.

The remains of ancient boats, sea mines and other important things :)

There are even hovercraft :) True, you can’t touch them. I was always wondering what this air cushion feels like:

But on the other hand, it is quite possible to touch the plane :) And even become its pilot. Virtually, really. But quite realistically you stagger during the entire flight and you completely control the colossus yourself :)

There is also an interactive game with a virtual sea battle, when you torpedo an opponent or shoot unreal computer targets from a very real machine gun:

But, of course, the main exhibit of the Maritime Museum is the Lembit submarine, which you can climb into and see it from the inside:

The ship was built at the British Vickers-Armstrong shipyard in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, UK. The construction of the boat began in May 1935. On May 13, 1936, by order of the Commander-in-Chief of the Estonian Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Johan Laidoner No. 92, the submarine under construction under building number 706 was named Lembit, and on July 7, 1936, at 13 hours 7 minutes, Lembit, together with the Kalev of the same type, were launched and transferred to Estonia. Godmother of the ship with the words:

I give you a name Lembit. May your work be happy and successful. Bless, Lord, all who will serve you.

original text(est.)

became the wife of the Estonian ambassador to the UK, Alice Schmidt ( Alice Schmidt). On May 14, 1937, the submarine, after completion, appropriate tests and trials, was put into operation and replenished the Estonian navy.

In 1211, the Estonian elder Lembitu led the struggle of the Estonian tribes against the Order of the Sword-bearers that invaded Estonian lands. Lembitu died in battle on September 21, 1217 and is revered in Estonia as a national hero to this day. The gunboat of the Estonian Navy, the former Russian gunboat Bobr, was named after Lembit. In the 1930s, the name Lembit was naturally inherited by the newest Estonian submarine, designed to protect the independence of the young Estonian state, which gained independence for the first time in its history in 1918.

The motto of the boat is "Be worthy of your name" (est. "Vääri oma nime" ).

The second most important and interesting exhibit of the Maritime Museum is the icebreaker-steamer "Suur Tõll"

The icebreaker was built in 1914 by order of the Russian government at the Vulcan-Werke shipyard (German: Vulcan-Werke, Stettin, Germany) to operate in the Gulf of Finland. Initially named "Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich" in honor of the first king of the Romanov dynasty and assigned to the port of Revel.

In 1914 he was mobilized and then included in the Baltic Fleet. Participated in the First World War and the February Revolution. On March 8, 1917, it was renamed Volynets in honor of the Volyn regiment that supported the February revolution. In the same year, the crew went over to the side of the Bolsheviks.

In April 1918, the icebreaker was sent to Helsinki to assist Russian warships and their ice escort to Petrograd.

In Helsinki, the icebreaker was captured by the Finnish White Guards. Sent to Tallinn, by that time occupied by German troops. On April 28, 1918, it was renamed Väinämöinen (Fin. Wäinämöinen, the name of the hero of the Finnish epic). Being under Finnish control, it was used for escorting German ships.

At the end of the first Soviet-Finnish war, as a result of the Tartu Peace Agreement, the RSFSR was to be returned. On December 7, 1922, the icebreaker was transferred to Estonia and on November 20, 1922, it was renamed Suur Tõll (Est. Suur Tõll, the name of the hero of Estonian folklore).

In 1940, after the annexation of Estonia to the USSR, the icebreaker was included in the Estonian Shipping Company. In 1941 he became part of the Baltic Fleet, after the start of World War II he was mobilized, armed and included in the special forces detachment of the Red Banner Baltic Fleet.

November 11, 1941 renamed again "Volynets". During the Great Patriotic War, he took part in the evacuation of the fleet from Tallinn to Kronstadt, in the evacuation of the Hanko garrison.

After the war, in 1952, it was overhauled and modernized.

October 11, 1988 "Volynets" went from Lomonosov to Tallinn. However, the flag certificate number 001 was issued to the vessel renamed Suur Tõll only on January 7, 1992.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the icebreaker was permanently moored and is currently a museum ship.

Well, the tour of the museum is crowned by a huge aquarium:

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