Countries

Big stories

All stories →
0

No products in the cart.

0

No products in the cart.

0

No products in the cart.

0

No products in the cart.

Region

Harju County

The capital, its medieval towers and the limestone coast.

13 museums
All museums ↓
📷 Jüri Lõun · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Harju County is Tallinn and the coast around it: cliffs, waterfalls, manor houses and fishing villages.

Museums in Harju County

Look inside, then pay your admission straight to the museum.

The story of Harju County

Start in Tallinn, where the old town is one of the best-kept medieval towns of northern Europe. See Estonian art at Kumu, the ships and submarine at the Seaplane Harbour and the farmhouses of the Open Air Museum. Outside the city, the limestone cliff of the north coast drops into the sea, and the Keila and Jägala waterfalls are wide and low. Lahemaa National Park, just east of Harju, has manor houses such as Palmse. Eat smoked fish by the sea and black bread with everything.

  • 1997Tallinn's old town on the UNESCO list
  • 1869the first song festival; today it is held in Tallinn

Harju County through time

The big moments, and where to see them today.

  1. 1285Tallinn joins the Hanseatic League.See it: Tallinn City Museum
  2. 1988Crowds sing at the Song Festival Grounds.See it: Estonian History Museum

What to do in Harju County

  1. 01

    Kumu Art Museum

    Estonian art in a building cut into the limestone bank.

    Tallinn2 hours
  2. 02

    Estonian Open Air Museum

    Farmhouses, mills and a wooden chapel by the sea.

    Tallinn3 hours
  3. 03

    Seaplane Harbour

    Ships, a submarine and an icebreaker.

    Tallinn2 hours
Getting there

Getting to Harju County

From the airport to the city centre by public transport, then the trains and local lines to the museums.

Arriving by plane

TLL
Tallinn AirportTallinn

Getting around Harju County

Lines and timetables change. Check the operator’s website before you travel.

On the map

Hidden story

The waterfall you can walk behind

At Jägala you can stand behind a waterfall.

Read the storyClose

The Jägala waterfall is only about 8 metres high but more than 50 metres wide, falling over the limestone cliff that runs along the north coast. In dry summers you can walk behind the curtain of water; in hard winters it freezes into a wall of ice.