The history of the higher education in Estonia begins in the year 1632, when the Swedish king Gustav II Adolf established the university in Tartu (Dorpat). Higher education was given in Latin, German or Swedish, as in Estonian territory the upper class minority spoke different language from the lower class majority. The history of popular education is connected to reformation. At the end of the 17th century we can for the first time speak about system of rural schools for native people on Estonian territory. In 1807 the first newspaper for rural people was printed and in 1893 the first daily newspaper in Estonian appeared. At that time Estonians were nearly 100% literate.The success-story of education belongs to Estonian national narrative. How is it reflected in our museums? We have one special museum dedicated to higher education (University of Tartu History Museum) and one museum, dedicated specially to the 19-th century rural school. The last one is inspired from a very popular book about school-life, written by a very popular writer (Oskar Luts, “Kevade”). In other museums there is everywhere something, connected to education, but the picture is not at all systematic. The most popular periods in exhibitions are the old classroom (like in 19th century) or the soviet time. In last case the point is usually the pioneers and other ideological stuff. There is nearby nothing about very important period in history of education in Estonia –the period between two world wars. The museum expositions like to speak about very old rural schools, almost neglected is the school in city, catholic period, and professional education. As different powers have established different schools, we speak only about these schools, which are living now. In presentation I will illustrate the picture, which we give in Estonian museums about history of education in Estonia.