Kalamaja Library
Open today
10–17Opening hours
Memory Lab – photo digitisation
The Kalamaja Library has a Memory Lab, where you can digitise old photos, documents, photo negatives and positiives for free.The Kalamaja Library has a Memory Lab, where you can digitise old photos, documents, photo negatives an...
Museum ticket rental
You can borrow a joint ticket to the Tallinn Literary Centre and Tallinn City Museum or a ticket to the Estonian Health Museum from the Kalamaja and Kadriorg li...You can borrow a joint ticket to the Tallinn Literary Centre and Tallinn City Museum or a ticket to the...
Services
- You can borrow a ROMOSS sailing 3 battery bank for on-site use to recharge the batteries of your mobile phone and other digital devices.
- There are four computer workstations. You can use LibreOffice software and an ID card reader. One computer workstation is equipped with a scanner. Computer time can be booked in advance on the spot, by e-mail or by phone.
You can borrow e-readers from Tallinn Libraries for 21 days without the possibility of extending the return period.
You can borrow the BOOX C65ML and BOOX Go Color 7 (Gen II) e-readers from the Kalamaja library.
We offer free individual and group training in Tallinn Libraries. We will agree on the time and place of the training together. The topics can be adapted and combined. We’ll find the right option for you.
Training topics, venues and more information can be found here.→
Copies and printing
We can print in A4 and A3 formats. We also have an A4 colour printer (single-sided printing).
Scanning
Scanning via librarian and sending to the reader’s e-mail address 0,20 € per page.
At Kalamaja Library, you can play board games on site or borrow them to take home.
From the Kalamaja library and Kadrioru library you can borrow a joint ticket to the Tallinn Literary Centre and Tallinn City Museum or a ticket to Estonian Health Museum which gives you the opportunity to visit these museums free of charge. You can borrow both individual and family tickets.
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At the Kalamaja Library we also offer free individual training in local history and Estonian cultural heritage:
- Introduction to the Kivike database
- Introduction to the MuIS, AIS and FOTIS databases
- Estonian Museums’ Web Portal and Estonian folk costumes website
- The ABC of family tree research
The Kalamaja Library (Kotzebue 9) has a Memory Lab, where you can digitise old photos, documents, photo negatives and positives for free.
The Kalamaja Library (Kotzebue 9) has a Memory Lab, where you can digitise old photos, documents, photo negatives and positives for free.
→ click here for more information
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At the Kalamaja Library we also offer free individual training in local history and Estonian cultural heritage:
- Introduction to the Kivike database
- Introduction to the MuIS, AIS and FOTIS databases
- Estonian Museums Web Gateway
- The ABC of family tree research
We invite kindergarten groups, classes and teachers to visit us for library hours.
- Library hour is an educational and participatory non-formal educational program in the library.
- It lasts about 45 minutes.
- Educational programmes are free of charge for Tallinn educational institutions! (except Culture Ticket classes). For institutions outside Tallinn, the library’s price list applies (except via Culture Backpack). ↓
We offer readers the opportunity to use our training classroom free of charge. Group size up to 10 people. Please book in advance.
Tallinn Libraries sell fiction (including children’s literature and poetry) and non-fiction books that are out of date, in large print or in new editions. Book prices start from € 0,15. The books on sale can be consulted at the library. The proceeds of the sale will be used to buy new books.
Libraries occasionally organise book fairs, keep an eye on our news, events calendar or join our newsletter. We also share information on our social media channels on Facebook and Instagram.
We offer readers the opportunity to use our training classroom free of charge. Group size up to 10 people. Please book in advance.
From the sports equipment collection you can borrow for free of charge various training equipment, exercise and training games and other mobility-related equipment.
For visitors with special needs
- We have an accessible restroom and a wheelchair lift. We can assist you with using the wheelchair lift; please call 683 0970 when you arrive. Paid parking is available in front of the library.
- The service counter has the hearing aid’s hearing loop, which you can use with your hearing aid in hearing loop mode.
- You can borrow a magnifying glass from the service counter.
→Link to the library in the city’s accessibility information system LIPS
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Home service. If you are a resident of Tallinn and are temporarily or permanently disabled and unable to visit the library, you can use the library’s free home delivery service→
Public transport and parking
Public Transportation
- The closest tram and bus stop to the library is Balti jaam, which is served by trams 1, 2, and 5, and buses 2, 3, 8, 21, 21B, 41, 41B, 59, 66, 84, 85, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, and 96
- You can view public transportation schedules at tallinn.transport.ee
Parking
- Parking on the streets near the library is subject to a fee in accordance with the downtown parking zone rates (http://www.parkimine.ee)
- When parking in front of the library on Kotzebue Street, the first 15 minutes are free with a parking meter; on Saturdays, parking is free after 3:00 p.m.
- A short distance away, in front of the Kalamaja Apteek (Kotzebue 9), parking is permitted for 30 minutes with a parking meter.