With the aim of revitalising cross-disciplinary research on Estonian art of the first half of the 20th century and strengthening networks of researchers working in this field, the project brings together scholars from Estonia, Norway, Latvia, Denmark and other countries. The research project was initiated by the Art Museum of Estonia.

From 7 February, the Kumu Art Museum’s Contemporary Art Gallery will host the international group exhibition They Began to Talk. The exhibition brings together the practices of artists working in Estonia and other Baltic countries with those from Indigenous communities in the Nordic countries, exploring the possibility of recovering and cultivating a sense of reconnection between body and land.

Starting 21 January, the second part of Hilda Kamdron’s (1900–1972) Tartu-themed drawings will be on display in the project space of the Kumu Art Museum. Dating back to the 1960s, this collection depicts the construction of the modernist Annelinn district in Tartu.

In the year 2024, 349,004 art lovers visited the branches, exhibitions and audience programmes of the Art Museum of Estonia. Among them, over 25,100 students and adults took part in educational programmes.

The XXXVIII International Niguliste Organ Week, which runs from the first to the seventh of January, will feature evening concerts and a daily programme showcasing the finest works of medieval and early modern art, accompanied by music. Professor Andres Uibo is the festival’s organiser and artistic director.

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.