Tallinn's Estonian Maritime Museum occupies two distinct and equally compelling sites — the medieval Fat Margaret tower at the entrance to the Old Town, and the Seaplane Harbour (Lennusadam) on the Kalamaja peninsula. The Fat Margaret building itself is a statement of stone brute force, a 16th-century coastal cannon tower that once guarded the entrance to the city, and it now holds rotating exhibitions charting Estonia's complex relationship with the sea, trade routes, and the naval powers that have contested this Baltic coastline for centuries. It's the kind of place that feels genuinely rooted in its setting rather than bolted together for tourists.
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