ERM 110. tegutsemisaastat tähistav muster
Estonian National Museum marks 110th anniversary
Thursday, 21. mar 2019
Holding on to what is important!
Having moved into a new home all of its own three years ago, the Estonian National Museum is marking the anniversary of its foundation as a civic initiative in 1909. This special occasion is being celebrated on 14 April with a huge party going by the name 'Dancing through 110 Years' (see programme).
"Our new building, which only opened three years ago, has already become an inseparable symbol of the museum, but our history dates back more than a century," said director Alar Karis. "It was Jakob Hurt and the other members of Estonia's intellectual elite who led the initiative to start collecting items and material of historical and cultural heritage value, and the spirit of the museum that sprang up from their efforts at preservation 110 years ago can still be felt right here today."
Karis added that the passage of time has changed little for the museum. "In fact our plans for the next few decades are not all that different to the objectives they set in establishing the museum in the first place," he explained: "storing and recording the intellectual and material cultural history of the country and showcasing it in a symbiosis of innovative means and research work."
The sophistication and popularity of the museum today are based on more than 100 years of collection activities, talking to the people of Estonia, detailed study and cooperation with a number of key partners.
The Estonian National Museum is, and is likely to remain, one of the country’s main centres of ethnology in the fields of both teaching and research. Studies of the subject at the University of Tartu have always been to a large extent reliant on the museum’s collection and staff.
The new building which enables the rich assortment of exhibits held by the museum to be displayed to the public has won a great deal of attention both nationally and internationally, as have the design of its outdoor landscaping and the permanent and temporary exhibitions it has put on. In the 2018 European Museum of the Year Awards it was the recipient of a special prize, winning the Kenneth Hudson award for its innovation.
The museum has been visited by more than 550,000 people since it opened its doors in its new home. It attracted 195,000 visitors last year, 22% of whom were from outside of Estonia and represented 90 countries. This reflects the growing interest among international visitors in both the museum itself and Estonian and Finno-Ugric peoples.
The new building of the Estonian National Museum has also been warmly welcomed by event planners, groups and visitors to cultural events. Last year alone a total of 600 different events were held on the museum’s premises.
The museum remains active in carrying out research, sourcing new material for its collections and curating exhibitions. In doing so it maintains dialogue with communities in Estonia and through a range of activities strives for even greater visibility within domestic and foreign tourism alike.
In honour of its 110th anniversary the Estonian National Museum will be adopting a special logo and visuals (see more in Estonian) that bring its modern identity and long and dynamic history together. The design language for the anniversary visuals contains all of the archetypal elements you would expect of such messages in terms of lines, forms and shapes.
"Our new building, which only opened three years ago, has already become an inseparable symbol of the museum, but our history dates back more than a century," said director Alar Karis. "It was Jakob Hurt and the other members of Estonia's intellectual elite who led the initiative to start collecting items and material of historical and cultural heritage value, and the spirit of the museum that sprang up from their efforts at preservation 110 years ago can still be felt right here today."
Karis added that the passage of time has changed little for the museum. "In fact our plans for the next few decades are not all that different to the objectives they set in establishing the museum in the first place," he explained: "storing and recording the intellectual and material cultural history of the country and showcasing it in a symbiosis of innovative means and research work."
The sophistication and popularity of the museum today are based on more than 100 years of collection activities, talking to the people of Estonia, detailed study and cooperation with a number of key partners.
The Estonian National Museum is, and is likely to remain, one of the country’s main centres of ethnology in the fields of both teaching and research. Studies of the subject at the University of Tartu have always been to a large extent reliant on the museum’s collection and staff.
The new building which enables the rich assortment of exhibits held by the museum to be displayed to the public has won a great deal of attention both nationally and internationally, as have the design of its outdoor landscaping and the permanent and temporary exhibitions it has put on. In the 2018 European Museum of the Year Awards it was the recipient of a special prize, winning the Kenneth Hudson award for its innovation.
The museum has been visited by more than 550,000 people since it opened its doors in its new home. It attracted 195,000 visitors last year, 22% of whom were from outside of Estonia and represented 90 countries. This reflects the growing interest among international visitors in both the museum itself and Estonian and Finno-Ugric peoples.
The new building of the Estonian National Museum has also been warmly welcomed by event planners, groups and visitors to cultural events. Last year alone a total of 600 different events were held on the museum’s premises.
The museum remains active in carrying out research, sourcing new material for its collections and curating exhibitions. In doing so it maintains dialogue with communities in Estonia and through a range of activities strives for even greater visibility within domestic and foreign tourism alike.
In honour of its 110th anniversary the Estonian National Museum will be adopting a special logo and visuals (see more in Estonian) that bring its modern identity and long and dynamic history together. The design language for the anniversary visuals contains all of the archetypal elements you would expect of such messages in terms of lines, forms and shapes.