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On 6 December, the artist Enn Põldroos’s (b 1933) solo survey exhibition Museum of Obsessions will open in the Great Hall of the Kumu Art Museum. The exhibition includes Põldroos’s works from the 1950s to the 2020s. The curator of the exhibition is Anders Härm.

For the eighth consecutive year, the Niguliste Museum, in collaboration with the interior decoration company Shishi, invites people to celebrate the magnificent holiday period with us.

The Niguliste Museum, a branch of the Art Museum of Estonia, opened to the public on 21 November 1984. The museum celebrates its fortieth anniversary with jubilee events, an audience day and a concert by the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir.

On 17 November, the Art Museum of Estonia celebrates its 105th birthday. According to Chief Executive Officer Sirje Helme, the Art Museum of Estonia, celebrating its 105th anniversary, is an organisation with long traditions, and with great potential for development and success.

As of 14 November, the exhibition of Tartu-themed works by Hilda Kamdron (1900‒1972), Vanishing of a City: Hilda Kamdron’s Drawings as a Trauma Narrative, is on display in the project space on Kumu’s 4th floor.

The large-scale exhibition of Latin American art is open for the last few days at the Kumu Art Museum. Starting from today, a traditional Mexican Day of the Dead altar – ofrenda – is on display in the Kumu Atrium as part of the exhibition’s closing programme. The main events will take place on Saturday, 2 November, while the exhibition and the altar will remain open until Sunday, 3 November.

On 25 October, the exhibition Kaja Kärner: Friendship and Time will open in the Adamson-Eric Museum. This is the first time that the oeuvre of one of the most outstanding “girls” of the Tartu circle will be exhibited on such a large scale in Tallinn.

The exhibition at the Mikkel Museum, opening 18 October, is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Ülo Sooster’s birth, and offers a selection of works from private collections by the playful and original artist and one of the most important innovators of Estonian post-war modernism. The exhibition is being curated by Liisa Kaljula and Elnara Taidre.

The exhibition takes the visitor to the house museum of the fictitious Mr. N, which tells the story of the birth of the bourgeoisie in Estonia in the 1920s and 1930s in numerous staged rooms, with the help of new objects by Lüüs and works from museum collections.

The art historian Merike Kurisoo (PhD) has been appointed Director of the Niguliste Museum and Adamson-Eric Museum, branches of the Art Museum of Estonia. She previously served as Programme Manager and Curator at the Niguliste Museum.

The exhibition, which opens at the Kadriorg Art Museum on 21 September, explores the history of the collection of the Art Museum of Estonia from its foundation in 1919 until World War II. 

On 7 September the exhibition Unicorn in the Magical Forest opens in the Niguliste Museum, inviting everybody to discover the meaning of the enigmatic unicorn through history and encounter these wondrous creatures in artefacts and works of art from the 16th to the 21st centuries. The exhibition brings to Estonia rare royal unicorns from the Swedish Royal Armoury; it is also possible to view special unicorns from the museums of Estonia and private collections.