Maiden Tower Museum-Cafe

This guide to the Maiden Tower Museum-Cafe in Tallinn opens in nineteen eighty, when Olympic sailing brought international eyes to town and city officials handed a grim medieval watchtower to interior architect Aala Buldas to turn into something sleek. You'll hear how her glass-walled cafe over the Old Town became the place Tallinn's teenagers queued for, and how ownership disputes in the nineteen nineties stripped that room bare piece by piece until the city finally took the tower over in two thousand ten. It follows the tower's slow return, decades after its stone walls were first raised.