The antecedents of the History Museum date back to 1802 when the
Tallinn Town Council’s chemist Johann Burchard (1776–1838)
established his collection Mon Faible (French: My Foible). The collection
was inspired by an artistically marbled easter egg, the first item
in the collection was a Chinese opium pipe. Burchard’s exhibition
in the Black Heads’ Hall in 1822 called Antiquities and Rarities
was the first of its kind in Tallinn.
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