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15/05/2024 | 13:40
The Finnish band Cleaning Women gives a concert in Kumu with the Georgian film My Grandmother
A cinema concert in the auditorium of the Kumu Art Museum on 24 May will combine a classic silent film with a contemporary musical experience: the film My Grandmother by Kote Mikaberidze will be shown, with the Finnish experimental music collective Cleaning Women providing the avant-garde soundtrack.
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07/05/2024 | 10:26
The Proceedings of the Art Museum of Estonia invites proposals for papers for the 2025 issue
The Proceedings of the Art Museum of Estonia is an annual peer-reviewed scientific journal. The journal publishes original research in the fields of art and museology, as well as texts concerning conferences and exhibitions held at museums.
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19/04/2024 | 10:30
The Art Museum of Estonia is introducing the Estonian cultural heritage in six European languages
Guided tours in English, Swedish, Hungarian, Portuguese, Spanish and Danish will be carried out by the Art Museum’s curators from 9 May to 12 May in the Niguliste Museum and the Adamson-Eric Museum. The tours will introduce Estonian art from the Middle Ages to modern times and provide fascinating insights into Estonian cultural history.
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08/04/2024 | 12:02
Works by the brightest names in Spanish modernist art at the Kadriorg Art Museum
On 13 April, the Kadriorg Art Museum opens the exhibition “España Blanca y Negra. Vision of Spain, from Fortuny to Picasso”, introducing Spanish art from romantic landscape paintings of the 19th century to the innovative pursuits of the young Pablo Picasso.
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25/03/2024 | 15:52
The ceiling mural of the Kadriorg Palace will be examined for the first time since its conservation in 2000
On 26 March, the Kadriorg Art Museum and Estonian Academy of Arts will start a collaborative research project with the aim of checking the condition of the Kadriorg Palace ceiling mural, mapping its damage and doing extensive examinations.
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18/03/2024 | 10:37
Kumu’s new exhibition explores the dreams and desires of Baltic Germans and Estonian peasants through the works of Elisàr von Kupffer and Jaanus Samma
The exhibition Elisarion: Elisàr von Kupffer and Jaanus Samma will be on display at the Kumu Art Museum beginning 22 March. Elisàr von Kupffer (1872–1942) was a Baltic-German artist, writer and philosopher, and was born and raised in Estonia.
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04/03/2024 | 16:05
For the first time, this exhibition in the Niguliste Museum presents to the general public a large number of finds connected to the pilgrimages of the people of Livonia
The exhibition There and Back: The Pilgrimages of Livonians in Medieval Europe, open from 9 March in the tower gallery of the Niguliste Museum, provides an overview of pilgrimages in medieval Livonia.
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20/02/2024 | 10:08
Adamson-Eric Museum’s new exhibition focuses on mental health
The exhibition features works by eight contemporary artists, all of which, in one way or another, explore the concept of balance.
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13/02/2024 | 10:23
Kumu Art Museum celebrates its 18th birthday with a festival of guided tours
During the birthday weekend, museum visitors can take part in various guided tours, workshops, discussions and individual journeys of exploration.
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06/02/2024 | 16:45
The Kumu Art Museum’s exhibition Art in the Age of the Anthropocene was recognised as the Exhibition of the Year 2023
The exhibition did much more than usual: it was important, it touched and changed the world beyond the borders of the exhibition hall, and it had an impact on the wider museumscape.
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06/02/2024 | 11:30
The “Sittow brotherhood” won the Museum Rat award in the research event category
The research events held in Estonia, Sweden and Finland in 2021–2023 introduced Tallinn as a mediator and creator of art in the medieval Baltic Sea space to the wider international field of research for the first time.
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30/01/2024 | 11:01
People with special needs can now visit the Niguliste Museum more conveniently
The new solutions will allow all of our visitors to fully enjoy the history of our building and the exhibition.
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