Sillaotsa Museum

What kind of habitat is a forest in Estonia? In spring you can see blue, white and yellow flowers blooming in the forest. There are thistles as on this photo. From trees there are willows, birches, spruces etc. In Sillaotsa forest there were 26 different kind of trees. Some of them were planted and brought to Estonia from other countries.

Pond as a habitat with tadpoles.

If you take young branches of willow tree and stick them to the ground and water them soon you will see that they are growing. Here is man made round willow edge what children found fascinating since they could go in there.

What tree is that? Apple tree of course.

Old engines.

If you think this is hair you are wrong. It is wool and linen.

In old times people used 4 horses to push this around so the machine could start working. It works also with child power.We tried.

Old tractors.

What is he doing? He is making toys from wood. This is what children did. They used a knife and carved cows, sheep etc. from wood pieces.

Do you want to make some bread? If you have grains put them between 2 stones and start turning it around. You will get flour and from that you can make bread. Easy? Hard?