Estonian History Museum-Great Guild Hall

Today we went to the Tallinn Great Guild Hall, the former site of the Merchant Guild in Tallinn. The Guild Hall became the Stock Exchange building in 1872, before becoming a museum in 1952.

The museum had an exhibit of some traditional musical instruments, history of the building itself and a weapons collection with a brief history of wars involving Estonia.

One interesting modern fact of Estonia is that when it gained its incidence in 1991 (along with Lithuania and Latvia), it faced a period of great poverty. Until a decision was made for the country to make heavy investments in technology. Since the 90s were the beginning of the information age, Estonia realized it was on a level playing field with other countries. Today, Estonia is a major tech hub and the most wealthy of these 3 Baltic states. We actually watched a video showing elementary school children programming robots to navigate mazes. Estonia can also boast that the popular web video calling platform Skype hails from an Estonian tech start-up (now a part of a Microsoft).

You can learn more about Estonia's rise at the link below.
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