Põlva Peasant Museum - a kind of open-air museum in Southern Estonia. The museum is located in the village of Karilatsi next to the old post road Tartu - Võru. The Museum of peasantry is 5 hectares. It survived the building of the former parish center, built in the late XIX century. The museum was founded in the 1970s on the initiative and under the leadership of Kalju Kermasa by pupils and teachers.

The main building of the museum is located in a former school built in 1889. Due to the small number of pupils at the school in 1971, was closed. Today you can get acquainted with the old classroom, where lessons are conducted vintage, living room teacher, a memorial room painter Wanda Yuhansoo and various exhibitions. The structure of the school complex also includes stables, a barn and a sauna "black." Later than the school itself was built towering apartment building for teachers. Today this building is the office of the museum.

In 1879, the barn was built in which to store grain for famine. A year later, they built a wooden house, which was originally in the parish house and the court, and later a hospice.

In 1896 it built a new parish house management, which now houses a rural library. Not far from the house is the yard of the rural blacksmith. In 1901, in the village of Prangli it was built windmill, which was moved to the museum in 1974.

In the museum park grows about 100 names of trees planted by leaders of public life and culture. Also, the museum exhibited the old farm machinery, tools and equipment, and vehicles.

Just Põlva Peasant Museum has about 25,000 exhibits. The museum is constantly changing and updated, aiming to preserve the cultural heritage, as well as familiarity with the history of leisure and culture of Estonia. In the museum you can walk on their own, or to order the guide. The museum hosts a variety of workshops, as well as various themed events.