Arriving at the museum
The Mikkel Museum seeks to provide its visitors with a great cultural experience and excellent service. This page contains all of the necessary information for people with special needs.
For more information for arriving at the museum, click here: Getting here
For more information on free entry to the museum, click here: Tickets
For visitors with mobility disabilities
The historic museum building is somewhat difficult to access. There is no elevator, which means only the temporary exhibition hall on the first floor can be accessed by wheelchair. One stair and two thresholds are in front of the museum’s entrance and the security guard will assist with crossing them.
The museum has an accessible toilet.
For visitors with intellectual disabilities
For groups of visitors with intellectual disabilities, we will adapt our museum classes accordingly and turn the museum visit into an engrossing experience. From the list of museum classes , pick a programme that you are interested in and then contact the museum by e-mail at kadriorg@ekm.ee.
For visitors with hearing disabilities
Currently, the museum does not offer sign language interpreting services. Visitors with hearing disabilities are welcome to bring their own interpreters (including to the classes). We will adjust the speed of our speech and activities according to your needs.
The museum does not have induction loops.
All of the wall texts are in Estonian and English.
For visitors with visual disabilities
The museum can be visited with a guide dog.
The museum currently has no audio guide or audio descriptions.
Location description
The Mikkel Museum is housed in a two-story building that is under heritage protection. The first floor, where the temporary exhibition hall, ticket booth, museum shop and toilets are located, is wheelchair-accessible. The second floor is accessed by a staircase because the building doesn’t have an elevator.
If you enter the museum from Weizenberg street, mind the small step in front of the door. You can enter the building through the right-side of the two-sided door, which has a brass handle. The door opens outwards. Upon entering, you arrive in a small entryway with another set of double doors a couple of steps ahead. You can enter through the left door. The doors lead to the Mikkel Museum’s small foyer, where the ticket booth is in the middle of the room (about four steps to the right and two steps to the left of the door). The museum shop is on the right. The person working at the booth provides information, and sells tickets and museum shop merchandise. Outerwear must be left in the coat hanger area opposite the ticket office or in the cloakroom. Larger bags should be placed in the lockers located in the staircase. To get to the lockers, take three steps to the left of the ticket office, then turn right and walk another ten steps; metal lockers with key locks are on your right. A museum worker will guide visitors here.
The accessible toilet
The accessible toilet can be accessed by going through the foyer’s inner door, which is to the left of the ticket office. Then walk seven steps straight ahead, turn right, walk three steps and go through the door. Now head two steps forward and then three steps to the left. All of the doors have thresholds.
Accessing the temporary exhibit
The first-floor exhibit hall can be accessed by walking two steps forward from the foyer entrance door and then another two steps to the left. The temporary exhibit hall is eleven meters long and nine meters wide. Two pillars are situated in the centre of the hall. Depending on the exhibit, temporary walls may divide the hall.
Accessing the second floor of the Mikkel Museum
After walking seven steps forward from the foyer’s inner door, go through the hall door, which is open. Up ahead, after a couple of steps, is a wooden stairway that leads to the museum’s second floor. The wall to the right of the stairway is a stone wall with a handrail on the left-hand side. The first half of the stairway has twelve steps. The stairway curves left at the threshold and the ceiling height at the start of the second half is 195 centimetres. Be careful especially when heading down the stairs in order to avoid hitting your head. The upper half of the stairway from the threshold to the second floor has twelve steps. The second-floor hall is fourteen meters long and eleven meters wide. There are closed glass displays with porcelain exhibits in the middle of the room and temporary walls may be placed here as well.
Accessing the Oriental Porcelain display
The Oriental Porcelain display is reached by going six steps forward and four steps to the left at the top of the second-floor. Covered glass displays containing oriental porcelain exhibits are displayed on both of the walls and in the centre of the room.
Accessing the collector’s room
You can enter the collector’s room by going four steps straight ahead and three steps to the left from the Oriental Porcelain display room’s door. The room is eight meters long and five meters wide. The collector’s room has a huge variety of paintings and an abundant amount of furniture. The collector’s room is divided into two parts by a temporary wall that you can go around on either side.
Accessing the Mikkel Museum art classroom
Seven steps straight ahead and eighteen steps to the right at the top of the second-floor will take you to a wooden door. The hall is sparsely furnished with glass display cases and benches. The door is double-sided, with the left side opening outwards. After one more step forward from the door and two steps to the right, you enter the Mikkel Museum art classroom, which is six meters long and five meters wide. On the left-hand side of the classroom in the middle of the room is a wash basin and a preparation area. The classroom has tables and chairs.
Four steps from the art classroom door will take you to a stone staircase leading down to the first-floor hallway, where the emergency exit is located. It is a three-flight staircase: five steps down, then left, four steps down, left again, twelve steps down, left once more, and the last three steps down.
All of the doors have thresholds.
Programmes
The Mikkel Museum offers educational programmes for children, teens and adults with intellectual disabilities, such as experience tours based on fairy tales.
Visitors with mobility disabilities can only access the first floor, as a result of which we can only provide access to the temporary exhibitions.
At the moment, we have no separate programmes for visitors with hearing and/or visual disabilities.
Notice to visitors
In order to make your stay with us as comfortable and memorable as possible, we would be grateful if you contact the museum in advance by calling +372 565 5302 or sending an e-mail to .