Tallinn Trip – Niguliste Museum Viewing Platform
I’ve rather muddled up the order of our few days in Tallinn with these blog posts, but this was the first place that we visited with our shiny new Tallinn Cards. It’s a museum in a former church (St. Nicholas’s Church) and it also has a rather decadent viewing platform to add to the mix.
We lost Ross early on, he was very excited by the rather futuristic looking lift to the viewing platform, but Susanna wasn’t far behind.
My middle name is brave, but even I wasn’t climbing these and I thought I’d use the lift. Bev and Susanna climbed them and realised that they didn’t go anywhere, so they traipsed back down. I was pleased with my decision if I’m being honest.
Steve also discovered that they weren’t entirely functional stairs from a visitor’s point of view. Bev kept trying to ring all the bells, but they’d taken the clappers out (or whatever they’re called) because of people like Bev. I didn’t say anything of course.
We walked up and got the lift down, which is probably a sub-optimal way of going about these things.
The view was worth it….
This is the museum that we were heading to next, Kiek in de Kök.
They were better views than we had when we visited the TV tower a couple of days later when we surrounded by fog.
The corporate heart of Tallinn.
It’s not a big city for a capital, but this was a useful way of orientating ourselves a little. I decided at this point that it was far too hot and I read several reviews commenting on this issue about how warm it got in the summer months. I accept that we visited in October, but I’m quite sensitive to heat and much prefer snowstorms and cold winds. Susanna, who is always sympathetic, didn’t have the same problem, but given half a chance she’d be wearing furs in the Sahara as her ideal temperature.
More on this in a later post, but this is the Russian Orthodox Alexander Nevsky Cathedral and its demolition has been mooted, although I suspect highly unlikely.
We then got the lift back down, ready to explore the rest of the building. There’s something quite atmospheric about museums in former churches, I’ve been to a few and this transpired to be a particularly good one.
