We visited Estonia's Maritime Museum in 2017 but it is now closed for renovations until 2019. Fat Margaret, as the Medieval artillery Tower is know is the widest tower in the city with walls up to 5 metres thick. It was completed in 1531. Some of the city's towers can be climbed, and you can walk along certain stretches of the ramparts and even have a coffee and cake at high altitude at the Neitsitorn Museum cafe, accessed via a very steep staircase. Beware the high cost, although the leaflet does justifies it by saying that the tower has "breath-taking views of the Old Town, which is true!
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| Barquentine Estonia |
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| The Nekmanngrund - lightship |
Maritime Museums always hold a great fascination for me with my love of making collages with ships as a subject, and this one has more than 100 model ships, with interesting stories to tell, no doubt, if only I could have understood the language. Picked up a few leaflets and took many photographs of the models to keep for future research into subjects for stamp collages. A year later, and I still haven't made any ships based on any of these, but it's never too late. The Don Fernando e Gloria, seen in Lisbon's Maritime museum the year before, has now been portrayed in a collage, and will be on show at my latest exhibition in The Guildhall, Gloucester, from 2nd - 30th October 2018.
The website www.fatmargarettower.com does provide some more information in English and other languages. There are ships to visit in connection with the museum, but for us, time did not permit this time round!
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