ENM laureates at the Estonian Annual Museum Awards Gala | Photo: ENM
Estonian National Museum won three Museum Rat awards
Thursday, 15. feb 2024
Congratulations to all nominees and laureates!
On Friday, 2 February, the winners of the Museum Rat awards in nine categories were announced at the Estonian Annual Museum Awards Gala in Pärnu. The Estonian National Museum won the Museum Rat award in three categories.The outstanding work of the Estonian National Museum in 2023 was recognised by nominations for awards in as many as seven categories, with three of these awards finding their new home in Raadi, Tartu.
‘I am delighted that our colleagues have noticed and acknowledged the high-quality work of the Estonian National Museum. The exhibitions and publications of the Estonian National Museum are largely based on the museum’s research and collections, and we are becoming increasingly more ready to share our competences with other museums as well,’ claimed Kertu Saks, the Director of the Estonian National Museum. ‘I would like to thank all of my colleagues at the Estonian National Museum who do their best every day to ensure that we have something to offer to everyone both in Tartu and our Heimtali Museum,’ Saks added.
The winners of the Museum Rat awards:
In the Community Friend of the Year category – ‘Together with the community. Organisation of the exhibition Anu Raud. Patterns of Life with and for the community of Heimtali Village.’
The jubilee exhibition of Anu Raud at the Heimtali Manor stables in the Heimtali Museum of the Estonian National Museum was made possible thanks to good co-operation with the local basic school and community. In line with the artist’s vision, the exhibition was primarily dedicated to and intended for the local and rural people, with the hope that rural life would persist and the traditional native way of life would continue. In less than two months, nearly 6,000 people visited the exhibition.
In the Museum Innovator of the Year category the Estonian National Museum was recognised for its developments in the field of museums and museology. The museology research group of the Estonian National Museum has been developing and supporting museology since 2020. With the support of international projects, tools and guides have been created to support the development of museums and cultural institutions, which help them to assess the societal impact of their activities, their development objectives as well as their methodologies for using both internal and big data to assess impacts.
Research Publication of the Year – Keeruliste aegade kiuste. Gustav Ränga päevikud 1939–1948 by Marleen Metslaid and Indrek Jääts. Reading this book provides an opportunity to reflect on the history of Estonia and the local ethnology during the Second World War and the immediate post-war years. The personal diaries of Gustav Ränk, a renowned Estonian ethnologist, along with the field diaries from his wartime expeditions to Votia and Livonia, which are housed in the personal archive of the Estonian National Museum, have been compiled and bound into a book.
Congratulations to all the winners and nominees! See the winners of the 2023 Museum Awards on the website of the National Heritage Board: www.muinsuskaitseamet.ee/et/uudised/selgusid-muuseumirottide-voitjad
The objective of the competition is to recognise the best museum specialists and to raise public awareness of the different aspects of museum work. The prizes are awarded by the National Heritage Board in co-operation with the Estonian Museum Association and the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.