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The Conservation Department of the Art Museum of Estonia is celebrating its 50th anniversary with the triple exhibition From Restorer to Conservator. Two of these exhibitions will open on 10 April: the one in the Niguliste Museum will focus on the restoration of mediaeval and contemporary art, and the one in the Kadriorg Art Museum will take a look at the work of conservators of paintings. The third exhibition has been open in the Adamson-Eric Museum since 6 March and focuses on works of art on delicate and fragile paper. 

The Supervisory Board of the Art Museum of Estonia Foundation decided by consensus that Sirje Helme will continue as Chief Executive Officer of the Art Museum of Estonia Foundation for a further two years, in line with the candidate’s preferred contract length.

A comprehensive exhibition introducing one of the most abundant and diverse art collections in Finland will be open in the Kadriorg Art Museum from 28 February. The exhibition Symphony of Art and Nature: The Serlachius Collection will display more than 70 artworks from the collection. The exhibition includes works by the brightest stars of Finnish art: Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Helene Schjerfbeck and Hugo Simberg.

In 2025, the Art Museum of Estonia’s branches, exhibitions and public programmes were visited by 388,600 art lovers.Over the course of the year, the number of visitors to the Art Museum of Estonia increased significantly. While art lovers visited our museums about 350,000 times each in 2023 and 2024, last year there were 38,600 more visitors.

Please note that all branches of the Art Museum of Estonia will be closed on December 24–26, December 29, and December 31–January 1. You’re very welcome to visit us on December 23, when all branches will be open until 3 p.m. We’ll also be happy to see you again from December 27 to 28 and on December 30, when the museum is open as usual. In the new year, all branches and exhibitions will reopen on Friday, January 2.

The Art Museum of Estonia, which celebrates its 106th anniversary on 17 November, offers art lovers extraordinary experiences at its exhibitions, including masterpieces by such great artists as Lucas Cranach, El Greco, Gerhard Richter, and Flemish and Dutch painters. The entire anniversary-week programme emphasises the museum’s role as an engaging partner for a wide and diverse audience: art speaks to all ages and in all languages.

This autumn, the Kadriorg Art Museum in Tallinn presents Garden of Delights: The Seventeenth Century in Bloom, a major exhibition organised in collaboration with The Phoebus Foundation (Antwerp). From 30 August 2025, more than 300 works from the Foundation’s collection will be on view in Tallinn, offering an unprecedented exploration of nature and flowers in seventeenth-century art of both the Northern and Southern Netherlands.

22 July marks the 307th anniversary of the founding of Kadriorg Palace and its park and the 25th anniversary of the opening of the Kadriorg Art Museum as a branch of the Art Museum of Estonia dedicated to foreign art. Since the Kadriorg Park Flower Garden is also celebrating the same anniversary, festive events dedicated to all of the anniversaries will take place both in the palace and in the park, offering guests a rich and diverse programme.

The Art Museum of Estonia is marking the Song and Dance Celebration week with special guided tours across all five of its branches: Kumu Art Museum, Niguliste Museum, Kadriorg Art Museum, Mikkel Museum, and Adamson-Eric. On July 2–4, each museum will host two special short tours daily: at 1 p.m. in English and at 3 p.m. in Estonian.

From 29 March, the Kadriorg Art Museum will host the international exhibition Bernardo Strozzi: Beyond Caravaggio, featuring 40 works by this key figure of the Early Italian Baroque. The works are on loan from European museums and private collections and include several pieces that have never before been on public display.

The Kadriorg Art Museum is committed to researching and presenting the European and Russian artistic heritage.

In the year 2024, 349,004 art lovers visited the branches, exhibitions and audience programmes of the Art Museum of Estonia. Among them, over 25,100 students and adults took part in educational programmes.