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In 2025, the Art Museum of Estonia’s branches, exhibitions and public programmes were visited by 388,600 art lovers.Over the course of the year, the number of visitors to the Art Museum of Estonia increased significantly. While art lovers visited our museums about 350,000 times each in 2023 and 2024, last year there were 38,600 more visitors.

Please note that all branches of the Art Museum of Estonia will be closed on December 24–26, December 29, and December 31–January 1. You’re very welcome to visit us on December 23, when all branches will be open until 3 p.m. We’ll also be happy to see you again from December 27 to 28 and on December 30, when the museum is open as usual. In the new year, all branches and exhibitions will reopen on Friday, January 2.

On 17 February 2026, Kumu Art Museum will turn 20. For twenty years, Kumu has been home to the world’s only permanent exhibition of Estonian art and has organised outstanding international and Estonian art exhibitions. Throughout its anniversary year, Kumu will look both to the past and to the future with its programme of exhibitions and special events.

Starting on Thursday, 4 December, the Kumu Art Museum project space will host the exhibition Carl Sigismund Walther: In the Artist’s Living Room, which accompanies the publication of the first comprehensive monograph on Walther. Walther was one of the innovators of the role and status of artists in 19th-century Estonia and a promoter of Tallinn’s art scene. The authors of the book and curators of the exhibition are Triin Kröönström and Kadi Polli.

Christmas at Niguliste has become an eagerly awaited tradition and marks the beginning of the winter holiday season at the museum. To celebrate the season of Advent, the interior design company Shishi is decorating the museum’s Christmas tree for the ninth time.

Opening in the Niguliste Museum on 22 November, the exhibition Dives Toletana: Treasures of Toledo Cathedral from Medieval to El Greco presents masterpieces from the 10th to the 17th century. For the first time, works by one of Spain’s most remarkable artists, a Greek-born painter El Greco (Doménikos Theotokópoulos) (1541–1614), will be shown in Estonia. The curators of the exhibition are Merike Kurisoo and Carlos Alonso Pérez-Fajardo.

The Art Museum of Estonia, which celebrates its 106th anniversary on 17 November, offers art lovers extraordinary experiences at its exhibitions, including masterpieces by such great artists as Lucas Cranach, El Greco, Gerhard Richter, and Flemish and Dutch painters. The entire anniversary-week programme emphasises the museum’s role as an engaging partner for a wide and diverse audience: art speaks to all ages and in all languages.

The performance VIIS et modis premieres on Friday, 14 November as the second part of the dance series Life Dances to Eternity, initiated by the renowned choreographer and director Teet Kask. In the St Anthony chapel the solo dance of Teet Kask combines with the music of the Argentine composer Gustavo Twardy.

The Pledge of Freedom: The Art Collection of Mykolas Žilinskas exhibition will open at the Mikkel Museum on 8 November, introducing the audience to the best works from the collection of Lithuania’s foremost art collector of the 20th century, from magnificent paintings by Old Masters to 20th-century art.

Merike Kurisoo, Director of the Niguliste Museum and the Adamson-Eric Museum, was the invited keynote speakers at NORDIK 2025, held in Helsinki from 20–22 October. The event is the largest scholarly forum for art historians in the Nordic countries, organised by NORDIK – The Nordic Association for Art Historians, this year in collaboration with the University of Helsinki.

From Friday, 24 October, the Great Hall of the Kumu Art Museum will host a high-profile joint exhibition by the Art Museum of Estonia and the Dresden State Art Collections, Spiegel im Spiegel: Encounters between Estonian and German Art from Lucas Cranach to Arvo Pärt and Gerhard Richter. After a successful run in Dresden over the summer, the exhibition will now open in Estonia. It is being curated by Kadi Polli, Marion Ackermann and Sergey Fofanov.

Starting on Friday, 17 October, Kumu will host the exhibition Tu and Whozzy, created especially for children. This playful exhibition expands on the permanent exhibition of older Estonian art, Landscapes of Identity: Estonian Art 1700–1945, and invites visitors to join the characters Tu and Whozzy in discovering how art reflects who we are, helping them to understand themselves and others better.