Museum of Occupations

Museum of Occupations

Okupatsioonide muuseum
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Established	1 July 2003 (2003-07-01)
Location	Toompea 8, Tallinn, Estonia
Coordinates
Type	History museum, Memorial museum
Director	Kadri Viires
Curator	Martin Andreller, Jean-Loup Rousselot
Public transit access	Tõnismägi, TLT
Website	www.okupatsioon.ee

Soviet prison doors on display

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Soviet and Nazi exhibit in the museum.

The Museum of Occupations (Estonian: Okupatsioonide muuseum) in Tallinn, Estonia, is located at the corner of Toompea St. and Kaarli Blvd. It was opened on July 1, 2003, and is dedicated to the 1940-1991 period in the history of Estonia, when the country was occupied by the Soviet Union, then Nazi Germany, and then again by the Soviet Union. During most of this time the country was known as the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic.

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Head of Lenin statue in the museum basement.

The museum is managed by the Kistler-Ritso Estonian Foundation. The foundation is named after Dr. Olga Kistler-Ritso, the founder, president, and financial supported of the foundation. The members of the foundation started to collect articles for the museum and for historical study in 1999. Cooperation was set with Estonian International Commission for the Investigation of the Crimes Against Humanity, the Estonian State Commission on Examination of the Policies of Repression, Memento Association, the Research Centre of the Soviet Era in Estonia, as well as with the Russian Memorial Society dedicated to victims of Soviet repressions, and other organizations.

External links

Museum website