The Festival of Exhibits by Estonians Abroad, which began in Estonia in May 2019, will continue throughout autumn and the beginning of 2020. Exhibits by communities of Estonians abroad and Estonian memory institutions or exhibits created as collaborations on topics related to Estonians abroad will be displayed during the festival.

There are two special exhibitions in ENM:
‘Prints and Patterns to Send Home. Erika Kalam’s Ethnographic Postcards’, Curator K. Raba, design J. Liiv, installation T. Sibul  (advisory centre room) until 20.12.2019. E-exhibition:  https://lib.werro.ee/.  

‘Porcelain Dolls Clothed in Estonian National Costumes’ (Elsa-Karin Lutz-Reissaar, USA) Aliise Moora room (small permanent exhibition).

The exhibition ‘The Food: Treasury of Estonian Heritage’, is also traveling (now in Luua Forestry School until January 2020. Curator R. Reinvelt, P. Noorhani, design M. Tamm).

Over the last few years, Estonian memory institutions located both at home and abroad have created a significant number of exhibits on the various stages and aspects of the Estonian diaspora. Some of them have been displayed before, but a large portion will be seen by Luua Forestry School Estonian audiences for the first time.

The festival is organised by the NGO Baltic Heritage Network, which focuses on the heritage of Estonians and other Baltic people abroad, and VEMU in Toronto in collaboration with a number of memory institutions in Estonia and communities of Estonians abroad. The project is supported by the Ministry of Education and Research in Estonia/the Compatriots Program and the Estonian Studies Centre/VEMU/producer Piret Noorhani.

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