New building

The international open architectural competition for the new main building of the Estonian National Museum was concluded on 16 January 2006. During the 100 year festivities of the ENM in 2009, the area was started to be marked and cleaned and a public construction procurement for the establishment of a modern multifunctional environment in Raadi to preserve our cultural history was opened on 4 March 2011.

The purpose of organising the architectural competition was to get the best architectural solution for the new main building for the Estonian National Museum and planning solution for the territory. The location of the competition is the territory of Raadi manor and surrounding areas in Tartu.

The international competition was organised by the Ministry of Culture, the Union of Estonian Architects and the Estonian National Museum. It was financed by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.

Winner of the competition was the project called "Memory Field", which authors are an Italian origin architect Dan Dorell, who lives in Paris and London, Lebanon origin Lina Ghotmeh and Japanese origin Tsuyoshi Tane. Deidre O’Neill (Arup), John G. Williams (Arup) and  Niccolo Baldassini (RFR) belong to the working group.