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Monastery stones. Palmse, Lahemaa

 

The birthday party of the Lahemaa National Park celebrating its 40-year jubilee, opens today, May 29th, at 12.40 pm in Palmse Manor, and activities will go on until midnight. Besides the nature and heritage workshops and classrooms and the nature learning programmes, landscape theatre is demonstrated in the manor bull stables.

The landscape theatre of the Estonian University of Life Sciences is a simulator with a panorama screen for showing landscapes. Sitting in the landscape theatre creates a feeling of  really being in the landscape that is shown – there are virtual walks in forests and, for thrills, supersonic flights across Estonia.

 

You can go on plant, tree and bird walks, study the secrets of the world of mosses, have an introduction to life in waters, learn how to use the nature observations data base, measure trees in the park, determine different mushrooms (the fruit bodies of fungi) and woods and cones, identify wild animals (from their jaw bones) and much more in the nature learning programmes.

The history of the National Park is shown in films: documentaries from the early years of the National Park will be screened, among them the film by Peeter Tooming, ”Lahemaa rahvuspark”, made in 1984 and restored in 2011. Lahemaa in new perspectives is introduced in the exhibition ”Väärtuslik Lahemaa”, created by nearly 100 authors for the jubilee.

You can join the heritage culture programmes on two stages with dance groups, different choirs, regi song groups and folk musicians from Lahemaa.

In the evening the Lahemaa Rahwamuusikud and the Kukerpillid will create  a festive mood, and the celebrations finish with dancing in the manor tavern

 

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The party is free for all guests.