Keila (German: Kegel) is a town and an urban municipality in Harju County in north-western Estonia, 25 km (16 mi) southwest of Tallinn.

In 1219 the Danish conquered Northern-Estonia and chose Keila as the site on which the Vomentakæ parochial Revala county church was to be built.

[3] At the same time the Livonian Order built a small fort south-east of the church on jõesaare (Known today as Jõepark).

[3][4] Further hampered by the plague and starvation in 1601–1602 the population decline reduced the community to a small church village.

One of the first notable cultural events was the erection of a statue of Martin Luther in 1862 near the kirikumõis (Church manor).

During Soviet times a military base, known as Tankipolk 'Tank Regiment', was built on the outskirts of the town for the housing of soldiers and tanks.

This name was given by Carl Friedrich Schmidt to distinguish layer of limestone, that is located between Jõhvi and Vasalemma stage.

82.8% were Estonians, 12.1% Russians, 1.8% Ukrainians, 0.9% Finns, 0.7% Belarusians, 0.2% Lithuanians, 0.1% Poles, 0.1% Tatars, 0.1% Germans and 0.1% Latvians.

The museum documents the life of Harju County throughout history and is located in the historic Keila manor house (German: Gutshaus Kegel).