Top 10 Things to do Good for a Rainy Day in Parnu County, Parnu County

You must go to the exciting Kihnu Museum when you visit the island. It like an anchor in preserving and introducing the cultural space of Kihnu, which has been entered in the UNESCO heritage list.The museum was founded in the former schoolhouse of Saarekula Village in 1974 and thoroughly renovated in 2009. You will find everything that concerns the everyday lives of people in the museum – tools, clothes, handicrafts, furniture. You will also find exhibitions that introduce famous Kihnu men, such as historian Theodor Saar, Captain Enn Uuetoa and silversmith Peeter Rooslaid, and the works of Kihnu nativists.

Puhvet A.P.T.E.K. is a lively cocktail and shot bar with a cool vibe, which turns into a crazy danceclub at nighttime. It's built in the oldest pharmacy in Parnu. The interior is worth to see, as it's 100% preserved. At summer they have big live concerts in front of the bar every Thursday.

2-4 people, locked up in rooms for 60 minutes. Tied up eyes, insanity shirt and a lot of more fun for obstacles. Audio- and visual effects will add spice for game. Are you capable to escape? Where to find us? We are located in Parnu, in a building which was built as a bombing shelter in first place, during the soviet union.

In 2007 a actual prison in Parnu was closed. Now it's reopened as the biggest escape rooms complex in Scandinavia. Are you capable to escape from an actual prison?

Ceramic specialist Eddi Leet, who opened his pottery in 1996, has become a household name for his beautiful work. For many years he concentrated on crystal glazing, but more recently he has taken to bright orange and red tones.Since autumn 2009 his pottery has operated out of the Maarja-Magdaleena Guild in the Old Town of Parnu. Here you can put your own pottery skills to the test under the guidance of the maestro himself!

Lydia Koidula (1843–1886) was a famous poetess and publicist during the national awakening of Estonia who spent her youth in Parnu. The memorial museum works in the house that was her home from 1850 to 1863. It is known as Parnu Ulejoe Schoolhouse where her father JV Jannsen, who is also the father of journalism in the Estonian language, worked at the time as the schoolmaster. Your can learn about their lives and activities in the context of national awakening in Estonia, take a look at a typical school and home from the middle of the 19th century and find out about the start of Estonian journalism (Perno Postimees from 1857).

Finished in 2008, this modern library building is fully covered in clear glass, so that unity with the town can be felt through the facades. The brightly lit house is especially inviting on long dark winter nights.Good to know!The architects of this building were awarded the Estonian Cultural Capital Architecture Prize of the Year.Here you can use the Internet and see interesting exhibitions.The library stands on the site of the medieval Parnu order castle. The walls of the castle have partly been marked on the pavement in front of the building. They had still been visible after World War II, but during the construction of the Stalinist central square, the walls were demolished.

The water park is a relaxing place for spending time with family and friends! The two floors of the water park accommodate 700 visitors at a time. The water park offers interesting activities for grown-ups and the young, for beginners and experienced water lovers. The more courageous visitors can use a 4 metre diving platform, and the depth of water underneath is 4 metres. Everyone riding the tube slides or torrential mountain rivers will definitely get a good shot of adrenaline. There are also pools, Jacuzzis, waterfalls, Finnish sauna and steam sauna, sauna centre Paradiisi Saunad, the Aqua bar, an outdoor heated pool (open in winter too!), a summer terrace and a bar waiting for you in the water park. The attractions of the water park allow everyone to be active - from a toddler to the elderly. The longest of the slides is 100 metres long. The shortest slide is meant for young children. The visitors sliding in tubes will not land in the pool, but safety channel.

Completed in 1768, the Church of Jekaterina is the most style pure and ample baroque church in Estonia. The design of facades characteristically for baroque disjunct and relief, the six broaches are finished with slender needle-shaped tips that add lightness and festiveness to the building. Since church is built a century before the majority of orthodox churches, it differs from them from architectural point of view but at the same time it has influenced the development of orthodox church architecture in whole Balticum.Interesting to know!Parnu church of Jekaterina was built by order and with financing of Russian queen Catherine the II.To this day Parnu Russian congregation operates in the church.