Estonian Health Museum

The Estonian Health Museum (Estonian: Eesti Tervisemuuseum) is a health museum in Tallinn, Estonia. The museum collects, exhibits, and analyzes objects related to healthcare in Estonia.[1]

Estonian Health Museum
Museum building (May 2012)
Location within Tallinn
Former name
Health Museum of the Sanitation Education Centre
Established1922
Coordinates59°26′22″N 24°44′44″E
Websitehttps://tervisemuuseum.ee/

The museum was established in 1921. Its first exhibition, held from 1924 to 1928, had 300 exhibits borrowed from foreign museums.[2] Before 1945, the museum was located in Tartu. In 1932, a branch was opened in Tallinn. In 1945, the museum was re-organized into the Sanitation Education Centre (Estonian: sanitaarharidusmaja). In 1950, the Sanitation Education Centre was closed.[1]

During the Soviet occupation of Estonia, the museum was closed and many of its items were destroyed. The museum re-opened in 1980 in Tallinn as the Republic Health Museum of the Sanitation Education Centre. In 1989, when it was reorganized as an independent institution, the museum changed its name back to the Estonian Health Museum.[2]

References
  1. Tallinna entsüklopeedia [Encyclopedia of Tallinn]. Volume II (N-Ü) (in Estonian). Eesti Entsüklopeediakirjastuse AS. 2004. p. 243.
  2. "History". Eesti Tervisemuuseum. Retrieved 2022-02-14.
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