So, we walked out of the port and followed the road closest to the coast towards the museum. Before we left though I couldn't resist taking a selfie with the ship
Along the way we passed this sign which made me smile ...as you can see it signposts the moon!
as we rounded the bay you could look back at the ship in port which was cool ...
there had been a suggestion we could have followed the coastal path on the other side of the fence you can see, but we played it safe and stuck to the road
Before too long we saw this ...
rounded the corner and saw the museum straight ahead
According to the time stamps on my phone there was 23 minutes from the last photo we took outside the ship and the sign for the museum painted on the wall. We stopped and took quite a few photos of the Magic across the bay so it probably was a 20 minute walk all in all (for two healthy but not super fit adults!).
the museum website is here
http://meremuuseum.ee/lennusadam/en/ and tickets were 14 Euro for adults. We ended up buying the combined ticket that also included a museum in town for 2 euro more, but never actually got there. The single ticket includes everything inside the museum plus an icebreaker boat moored outside.
The museum is based in an old hanger. When you entered there was a foyer with a small shop, the ticket desk, toilets and a staircase to the right. Once we'd bought our tickets we headed up as a school party had just entered and we wanted to get ahead of them! When we got to the top of the stairs I hadn't been prepared for the sight. The museum was beautiful ...
I'm not a good enough photographer to do it justice, but you're looking at a full size submarine in the centre of the picture. The floor was shiny and represented the sea. You walked along an elevated walkway across the left of the museum and then round the other side, eventually coming down the stairs you can see in the picture. Everything was explained in English as well as Estonian and Russian.
we walked around learning lots about different types of boats and ice craft and eventually made our way onto the Lembit (the submarine)
It was built in the 1930s in England for the Estonia armed forces ...
we descended the staircase - not realising that was the only way in and out and explored the submarine. I won't bore you with all the pictures but there was loads to look at
to move from room to room you sometimes had to climb through these