Song Celebration Museum

The Tartu Song Celebration Museum is located in a 19th-century classicist building, where the organizer of the first Estonian Song Festival and founder of the national theater, the Vanemuine Society, operated.

The first Estonian-language play, written by Lydia Koidula, premiered here. Koidula was a prominent female poet of the Estonian National Awakening, who thereby laid the foundation for the Estonian national theater.

The museum offers an introduction to the Song Celebration tradition as well as the 150-year history and heritage of the Vanemuine Theater.

Visitors can take part in interactive exhibitions, virtual reality experiences, workshops, and guided tours.

The museum park is also open during opening hours.