The Art Museum of Estonia in summer

The Art Museum of Estonia combines five museums in Tallinn with a diverse exhibition programme. Three of the museums are located in Kadriorg Park: the Kumu Art Museum, with its modern architecture and an extensive permanent display of Estonian art; the Kadriorg Art Museum, housed in an 18^th-century Baroque palace which showcases Western European and Russian art; and the Mikkel Museum, which features Johannes Mikkel’s collection and art from other private collections. In the heart of the Old Town, you’ll find the Niguliste Museum, with its wealth of historical ecclesiastical artworks, housed in a medieval church building, and the Adamson-Eric Museum, dedicated to the 20^th century Estonian modernist Adamson-Eric. In addition to permanent exhibitions, all of the museums also host thematic temporary exhibitions.

The permanent exhibitions at the Kumu Art Museum present Estonian art through three centuries, from the 18^th century classics to the art of the turbulent 1990s. The extraordinary and fascinating exhibition Futuromarennia: Ukraine and Avant-Garde, which is on display at the museum until September 10th, presents the innovative artistic visions of the future that emerged in Ukrainian art between 1910 and 1920. The works of Oleksandra Ekster, David Burliuk, Vasyl Yermylov, and many other remarkable Ukrainian artists come from the collections of museums that carry on working amidst ongoing attacks by the Russian aggressors. The exhibition Art in the Age of the Anthropocene explores the role of art during times of environmental crises. This is the largest ever exhibition to focus on the relationship between art and the environment in Estonia, and is centred around three themes: representations of human impact on the environment in Estonian art history, the possibilities of contemporary art in coping with the environmental crisis, and the “green museum”: how to create sustainable exhibitions. This exhibition will remain open until October 8th. The exhibition Through the Black Gorge of Your Eyes, featuring works by Estonian women printmakers from the 1960s to the 1980s, will open on June 16th.