Seaplane Harbour

Seaplane Harbour museum - darkometer rating : 1 - A modern, award-winning, recent addition to Tallinn 's portfolio of attractions. The Seaplane Harbour Museum is housed in a huge three-domed hangar. The vast cavernous hall inside contains amongst its exhibits a whole submarine, surely the prime exhibit, as well as various other navy/maritime-themed objects and is designed to a high modern standard with plenty of interactive elements. There is also a large open-air part with more vessels and vehicles, some military, but also civilian. Only a few parts of all this are actually especially noteworthy from a dark-tourism perspective, but it is still very much worth checking this museum out. > More background info > What there is to see > Location > Access and costs > Time required > Combinations with other dark destinations > Combinations with non-dark destinations > Photos More background info: The seaplane hangars were built between 1912 and 1917 and are considered to be the world's first large-scale shell structure of reinforced concrete. It was part of the Russian Tsarist empire's Peter the Great Naval Fortress. It again fell into the hands of the Russians from 1940/1944 when Estonia became part of the USSR and the harbour was part of the Soviet Baltic Fleet bases. During that time the hangars ceased to serve their original purpose. After many years of disuse and neglect the structure had become increasingly dilapidated by the time the country regained its independence. But in the 2000s, plans for refurbishing the hangars and making it part of a harbour museum were developed.