Maarjamäe Palace (or Maarjamäe Castle) is a building in

Maarjamäe Maarjamäe (Estonian language, Estonian for ''"Maria's Hill"'') is a subdistrict () in the district of Pirita, Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. It is bordered by Pirita (subdistrict), Pirita and Kose, Tallinn, Kose to the north, Lasnamäe to t ...

Tallinn Tallinn is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Estonia, most populous city of Estonia. Situated on a Tallinn Bay, bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, it has a population of (as of 2025) and ...

. The palace is located on the area of earlier ''Maarjamäe summer manor'' (), being its main building. Estonian Encyclopaedia, nr 12. 2003. Page 322. Nowadays, the palace is used by

Estonian History Museum Estonian History Museum () is a museum about the history of Estonia in Tallinn. It was initially established by the pharmacist Johann Burchart, who ran the town hall pharmacy known as the Raeapteek. Inaugurated in 1987, it picks up where its cou ...

. The palace was built in 1872 (or 1874). The palace is featured by historicist style. The park has an exhibition of Soviet-era statues dating from the

Soviet occupation During World War II, the Soviet Union occupied and annexed several countries effectively handed over by Nazi Germany in the secret Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact of 1939. These included the eastern regions of Poland (incorporated into three differe ...

which were removed from other public spaces following the Estonian Sovereignty Declaration in 1988.

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