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On display from November 14, 2025, on B-side Sgraffito, 260 × 900 cm Estonian National Museum, ERM K 5399/1–9 Elmar Kits (1913–1972) was one of the most outstanding Estonian modernist painters – an artist who managed to stay...
Competitions for the best deigned or the most beautiful book have been held in Estonia for almost a hundred years. In 1934, the publishing house NoorEesti announced a public vote to choose the book with the most beautiful cover. Hando Mugasto won all three...
Open from 5 August to 26 October 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 based on one of...
Open from 25 May 2025. The exhibition "Rannarootslased. Estlandssvenskar. Estonia-Swedes" presents the traditional material and spiritual culture of the Coastal Swedes and the development of Estonian Swedish culture from the 20th century to the...
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...
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 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...
The illustration exhibition “City of Stories”, which received a warm welcome while representing Estonia at the Bologna Children's Book Fair this spring, will open to the Estonian public on July 24. The exhibition offers a glimpse into the...
The exhibition is open in the Estonian National Museum (Osalussaal) from 25.05.2025 to 31.08.2025 In the middle of the Gulf of Riga lies the small island - Ruhnu, where a very unique knitting tradition has survived for centuries. Knitting was a part of the...
Open from 25 April 2025 to 31 August 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...
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...
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...
