According to the chief executive officer of the Art Museum of Estonia, Sirje Helme, the increase in visitor numbers is the result of the dedication of the entire museum staff.
Camerata Musica is a string quartet featuring well known Estonian musicians – Sigrid Kuulmann (violin), Fred Heinoja (violin), Kaarel Veenre (viola) and Andreas Lend (cello).
Pirjo Jonas is a well known estonian coloratura soprano boasting an illustrious career at Tartu Vanemuine opera theatre. Pirjo is accompanied by Piia Paemurru, distinguished Estonian pianists and accompanist at the Vanemuine theater and at the Academy of Music and Theatre.
The exhibition sheds light on the early history of the Art Museum’s collection in the 1920s–1930s, during the first decades of the Republic of Estonia, when ethnographic artefacts, national handicrafts and other items of cultural heritage were collected by the museum, in addition to works of art.
The exhibition is dedicated to the depiction of Spain and includes romantic views of Spain, as well as masterpieces by the grand masters of Modernism. Buoyant and sunny, or dark and tragic, the “whiteness” and “blackness” of the quintessence of Spain are revealed through magnificent works of art.