Banned Books Museum
Welcome to the museum
Banned Books, Keelatud Kirjandus, is a museum in Tallinn, Estonia that preserves banned, censored, and burned books from around the world. We tell the stories of our books and their authors, and provide resources for learning about the history of censorship, contemporary challenges, and the free exchange of ideas.
Play Video
Latest News
341 visitors in 5 hours 😀
For the first time Banned Books participated in Muuseumiöö, the once-a-year evening when museums in Estonia open their doors and stay open late into the ...
Read Now →
Podcast - Banned Voices
S2E4 – Wangpo Tethong, on Tibet
Wangpo Tethong is the Executive Director of the International Campaign for Tibet Europe. In this episode we discuss Tibet, the Chinese occupation of the region, ...
Listen Now →
S2E3 – Benedict Rogers, on Hong Kong
Benedict Rogers is the Chief Executive of Hong Kong Watch. In this episode we discuss the human rights situation in Hong Kong, the National Security ...
Listen Now →
S2E2 – Abduweli Ayup, on the Uyghur People
Abduweli Ayup is the Director of Research at the World Uyghur Congress. In this episode we discuss the ongoing genocide against his people, and the ...
Listen Now →
S2E1 – Enghebatu Togochong, on Southern Mongolia
Enghebatu Togochong is the director of the Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center. In this episode we discuss the ongoing persecution of the Mongolian people ...
Listen Now →
S1E6 – Mohammed Almahfali, on Censorship in the Arabic Speaking World
Mohammed Almahfali, Ph.D, is an affiliated researcher at the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University in Sweden. In this episode we discuss ...
Listen Now →
S1E5 – Ulrika Ahlberg and Jude Chukwuma Dibia, on their Free Speech Library
Ulrika Ahlberg and Jude Chukwuma Dibia work at the Dawitt Isaak Library in Malmö, Sweden, a library dedicated to authors who have been censored, repressed, ...
Listen Now →
S1E4 – Captain Roy D, on QAnon and Amazon De-listing
Denis Poljakov is the owner of Russow Galerii in Tallinn, Estonia. He talks about his lifelong business in books, including his experiences smuggling contraband books ...
Listen Now →
S1E3 – Denis Poljakov, Bookseller, on Smuggling Books Across the Russian Border
The third episode of our podcast, Banned Voices is available now! Guest Denis Poljakov is the owner of Russow Galerii in Tallinn, Estonia. He talks ...
Listen Now →
Support Us
We collect and preserve banned, burned, and censored books from around the world.
Whether you are an author whose work has been censored, or a collector who has something we need to know about, we’d love to hear from you!
