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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.
Art in the Age of the Anthropocene was awarded the Museum Rat for the Exhibition of the Year 2023. Photo: Haide Rannakivi -
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.
Michel Sittow in the North? Altarpieces in Dialogue, was deemed the best research event last year at the Estonian museums’ annual awards gala. Photo: Merike Kurisoo -
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.
Since the middle of January, the accessibility of the Niguliste Museum for people with special needs has significantly improved. Photo: Ave Vellesalu -
01/01/2024 | 15:00
More than 350,000 art lovers visited the Art Museum of Estonia in 2023
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.
Glass lift in the Niguliste tower. Photo: Art Museum of Estonia – Niguliste Museum -
28/12/2023 | 11:34
Niguliste Organ Week fills the museum with beautiful music and intriguing conversations
The opening concert of the festival is Doubly Majestic. Two Trumpets and Two Organs on 1 January at 5 pm.
The international music event enables the audience to enjoy, once again, the spectacular acoustics of the mediaeval church building. Photo: Karin Kaljuläte -
Eesti Kunstimuuseumi tänavusel jõulukaardil on Enn Põldroosi teos „Meri XVI“ (1976). Eesti Kunstimuuseum -
01/12/2023 | 13:50
Christmas at the Niguliste Museum: a marvellous Christmas tree, viewing the illuminated Old Town and a special holiday programme
For the seventh year in a row, the Christmas tree on display at the Niguliste Museum will be decorated by the interior decoration company Shishi. As has become customary, the theme of the Christmas tree will not be revealed until the lighting ceremony.
Last year Niguliste was closed for renovation, but the 2021 theme of the museum’s Christmas tree was “colourful delight”. Photo: Art Museum of Estonia – Niguliste Museum -
27/11/2023 | 16:29
A creative dialogue is set up in Kumu between the Italian Transavantgarde and Estonian Calm Expressionism
On 1 December, the exhibition Borderless Universe in Their Minds: Italian Transavantgarde and Estonian Calm Expressionism will open in the Great Hall of the Kumu Art Museum.
Enzo Cucchi (1949). Euphoric Music (Musica ebbra). 1982. Oil, mixed media and metal collage on canvas. Collezione D’Ercole, Rome. Photo: Corrado de Grazia -
23/11/2023 | 12:35
Adamson-Eric Museum celebrates its 40th anniversary
A museum dedicated to the Estonian artist Adamson-Eric was opened in a newly renovated building in Tallinn’s Old Town on 2 December 1983.
The museum’s first permanent exhibition in 1983. Exhibition design by Mait Summatavet. Photo: Art Museum of Estonia -
06/11/2023 | 13:01
melanie bonajo’s exhibition on body and touch opens at the Kumu Art Museum
The exhibition features four experimental documentaries. In addition to the immersive and sensitive centrepiece When the body says Yes, three of bonajo’s earlier works are included, exploring the themes of intimacy and the search for contact.
melanie bonajo. When the body says Yes. 2022. Video still. Scenography and installation in collaboration with Théo Demans, commissioned by the Mondriaan Fund. Courtesy of the artist and AKINCI -
30/10/2023 | 11:04
Mikkel Museum shows the work of Honoré Daumier, the father of caricature
The exhibition The Father of Caricature: Works by Daumier from R. Paul Firnhaber’s Collection is the first opportunity in Estonia to get to know the artist’s work in depth and detail.
Honoré Daumier. Invasion de Paris par les Bas-Normands. From the series <i>Les Trains de Plaisir.</i> 1852. Published in <i>Le Charivari</i>. R. Paul Firnhaber’s collection -
16/10/2023 | 15:35
Konrad Mägi’s work is revealed from a new perspective at the Kumu Art Museum
Modern research techniques make it possible to reveal everything invisible to the naked eye.
Konrad Mägi. Pühajärv. 1918–1920. Eesti Kunstimuuseum. Foto: Stanislav Stepaško
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