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Niguliste Museum occupies the restored 13th-century St. Nicholas' Church, now a branch of the Art Museum of Estonia dedicated to medieval ecclesiastical art. Its crown jewel is a fragment of Bernt Notke's haunting Danse Macabre, one of the most important medieval paintings in Northern Europe.
The original church was built by Westphalian merchants in the 13th century and expanded over the following centuries. It was badly damaged during the Soviet bombing of Tallinn in 1944 and meticulously restored over decades, reopening as a museum and concert hall in 1984.