Käsmu Maritime Museum, Maritime museum in Käsmu, Estonia.
The Käsmu Maritime Museum occupies a former border guard station and displays navigation instruments, fishing equipment, and maritime objects from northern Estonia. The building contains exhibits focused on seafaring heritage and how people used the sea for their survival and trade.
The building originally served as a Tsarist border guard station before becoming an educational center dedicated to maritime heritage in 1993. This transformation preserved the area's connection to seafaring history and made it accessible to visitors.
The museum shows how seafaring shaped daily life for local people and the skills passed down through generations of fishermen and sailors. Exhibits reveal navigation methods and fishing traditions that were central to how residents survived and worked along the coast.
The museum offers visitors hands-on activities and guided experiences in the surrounding landscape, with advance booking recommended for group programs. The location near Lahemaa National Park makes it easy to combine a visit with nature walks or exploration of the coastal area.
The museum runs workshops where visitors can learn to make pastlad traditional footwear and practice Viking-era woodworking techniques with their own hands. These hands-on activities let people experience how craftspeople once worked with materials from the sea and forest.
The community of curious travelers
AroundUs brings together thousands of curated places, local tips, and hidden gems, enriched daily by 60,000 contributors worldwide.
