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The exhibition Olev Subbi: Striving for Perfection is open in the Estonian National Museum from 22 March to 12 October 2025 Olev Subbi’s (1930–2013) survey exhibition provides a comprehensive insight into the oeuvre of one of the most...
Book Year cluster exhibition at the Estonian National Museum The exhibition opens on 25 April 2025 It’s a book celebration! 2025 marks 500 years since the publication of the oldest printed word in Estonian. In 1525, a work came out of the...
The story of Estonian books began 500 years ago. On the panel to be created in the foyer of Section A of the Estonian National Museum for the Book Year, artist Siiri Taimla-Rannala has illustrated this entire colourful story in a way that also brings to light...
Open from 26 April 2025 to 4 January 2026 The exhibition-audio performance "From loss to horizon", created at the Estonian National Museum during the Estonian Book Year, offers an emotional journey that spans from distress and helplessness to...
Open from 25 April 2025 to 27 July 2025. The books of Estonian peasants in the 19th century and the work of the Estonian National Museum (ERM) to establish a national central library. When the Estonian National Museum was established in April 1909...
The exhibition is open from 25 April to 8 June 2025 Children’s books are often our first exposure to the world of pictures. The first picture of a dog, a cat, a girl or a boy we see is likely to come from a book, the first house we drew was always...
It was the old women and men in the family who made the candles. The farmer and the farm-hand had no time to mess with such things; the farm-hand would have eaten the sheep fat and there would have been no candles. (ERM KV 232 Kadrina, 1969) The adoption...
The Glimmer and Gloom of Estonian Urban Life After Dark If darkness was endlessly temporal, we would never see the light of the sun. But standing forever in the sun would bereave us of life in the night. Arno Vihalemm, ‘Alveri ainetel’ (...
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the surrealist movement, which over the century has offered inspiration to many creators and compelling experiences to the general public. 2024 is also the year when Tartu, the capital of surrealism in Estonia, is the...
Artist Jaanus Samma has long been interested in how the idea of nationalism is constructed. In this exhibition, he draws on materials from his personal collection and the vaults of Estonian museums to create 11 thematic compositions in which he examines...
The exhibition is open from 27 September 2024 to 27 April 2025 The exhibition Chiming Shadows. A Musical Sleepwalk with Alliksaar’s Poetry is an experience hall of the Estonian National Museum that is a part of its large exhibition about the...
The exhibition is opened from 28 June to 25 August 2024. Free entry. Margus Vaikre (1962) is one of the most fascinating authors I’ve met in the almost thirty years I’ve worked with artists. He has no art education. He doesn’t even...
The exhibition will be open from 17 May to 16 June 16, 2024, free entrance. Joanna Concejo, a Polish illustrator and artist, is among the world's most well-known and renowned illustrators. She is noted for her distinctive intricate and detail-rich...
The city at night is like a sweater turned inside out. Familiar places create new meanings and possibilities. On seemingly empty streets one can encounter city dwellers of other kinds. Weasels, mice and hedgehogs are leaving their nests. Owls, bats and...
The repository of the Estonian National Museum, in which hundreds or even thousands of thematically linked pieces can be showcased, now presents from its extensive collections a range of carefully preserved items that visitors rarely get to see. From...
Vahan Shahbazyan was born in 1982 in the city of Vanadzor, Armenia. From 2000 to 2005, he studied visual arts at the National Pedagogical University and currently works at the Aesthetics Center named after Genrih Igitjan, where he provides art courses to...
