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TO THE RESEARCHER The collection of the Hiiumaa Museum originated from the local history collections of Leisu School and Mänspäe School, which were almost entirely transferred to the local history museum when it was being founded. The founder of the first museum in Hiiumaa was Volli Mäeumbaed, a local history enthusiast and school teacher. On his initiative, the Hiiumaa Museum was opened on 28 May 1967 in the house of the field hands of Kassari Manor. As of today, there are more than 34,000 museum objects in the collection of the Hiiumaa Museum. The objects received from the local history circles of Leisu School and Mänspäe School, which had mainly been brought by the local children, caused the peasant culture represented in the museum collection to be swayed heavily towards southern Hiiumaa. Later, an attempt has been made to find objects missing from the ethnographic collection from other regions of Hiiumaa as well. One of the rarest objects in the ethnographic collection is a wooden milk pail, which has the year 1510 carved under its bottom. It is one of the oldest dated wooden vessels in Estonia. The objects in the historical collection are predominantly of industrial kind and made...