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Art Museum of Estonia, Weizenbergi 34 / Valge 1, Tallinn,
Harjumaa
| Art Museum of Estonia |
| Address: Weizenbergi 34 / Valge 1, Tallinn, Harjumaa |
| Tel: +372 602 6000, Fax: +372 602 6002 |
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www.ekm.ee/kumu.php
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Art Museum of Estonia was founded on November 17th, 1919, but it was not
until 1921 that it got its first permanent building – the Kadriorg
Palace, built in the 18th century. In 1929 the palace was expropriated
from the Art Museum in order to rebuild it as the residence of the
President of Estonia. The Art Museum of Estonia was housed in several
different temporary spaces, until it moved back to the palace in 1946.
In September, 1991 the Kadriorg Palace was closed, because it had
totally deteriorated by then. At the end of the year the Supreme
Council of the Republic of Estonia decided to guarantee the
construction of a new building for the Art Museum of Estonia in
Kadriorg. Untill then the Knighthood House at Toompea Hill served as
the temporary main building of the Art Museum of Estonia. The
exhibition there was opened on April 1, 1993. Art Museum of Estonia
premanently closed down the exhibitions in that building in October
2005.
At the end of the 1970s, in the 1980s the first branches
of the Art Museum of Estonia were founded. Starting from the 1995 all
the branches offer different educational programmes for children and
young people. In 1996 the exhibition hall on the first floor
of Rotermann Salt Storage was opened, this branch was closed in May
2005. In summer 2000 the restored Kadriorg Palace was opened, but not
as the main building of the Art Museum of Estonia, but as a branch.
Kadriorg Art Museum now exhibits the foreign art collection of the Art
Museum of Estonia.
At present there are five active branches
of the Art Museum of Estonia: Kadriorg Art Museum (Kadriorg Palace and
Mikkel Museum), Niguliste Museum, Adamson-Eric Museum, and Kumu Art
Museum (the new main building of the Art Museum of Estonia).
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the first time during its nearly 100-year-old history, the Art Museum
of Estonia has a building that both meets the museum's requirements and
is worthy of Estonian art in its collections. Kumu Art Museum
is a multifunctional art museum that includes exhibition halls, an
auditorium that offers diverse possibilities, and an education centre
for children and art lovers of all ages.
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