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7.5.2024 | History

Temporary exhibitions at Estonia’s best museums

Text Susanna Poikela
Photo Andrei Chertkov

Temporary exhibitions at Estonia’s best museums

 

Here are current temporary exhibitions in Estonia’s five most popular museums.

 

Estonian National Museum (ERM)

17.02.2024 –23.02.2025 Who claims the night?

04.04 – 08.09.2024 Surrealism 100. Prague, Tartu and Other Stories… 

 

KUMU

01.12.2023 – 19.05.2024 Borderless Universe in Their Minds: Italian Transavantgarde and Estonian Calm

14.12.2023 – 26.05.2024 You, River. Hedi Jaansoo, Peeter Tooming and Endel Veliste

12.10.2023 –25.08.2024 Decoding the Landscape: Jaan Toomik

22.03 – 08.09.2024 Elisarion: Elisàr von Kupffer and Jaanus Samma

25.04 –25.08.2024 Guardians of Morality and Women of Passion: The Image of Sex Work in Estonian Art in the First Half of the 20th Century

 

Fotografiska

20.04 – 08.09.2024 Kary H. Lasch: The Golden Years

15.03 – 19.05.2024 Simen Johan: Until the Kingdom Comes

15.03 – 08.09.2024 Wang Chen: Fractured Delights

03.02 – 02.06.2024 Peter Lindbergh: Lightness of Being 

 

AHHAA Science Centre

18.05–27.10.2024 Aha, adrenaline!

 

Seaplane Harbour Museum

12.05.2024 The museum will reopen after renovation. Further information on the changes to the museum can be found in our prevous article here

 

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