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The exhibition Metamorphoses: Power. Violence. Gender will open in the Kadriorg Art Museum on 10 October. The display consists of a selection of works based on Ovid’s well-known myths from the collections of Estonian, Czech, French and Swedish museums, as well as rare historical publications of Metamorphoses from libraries. The exhibition’s point of departure is the ceiling painting of the main hall of Kadriorg Palace, Diana and Actaeon, which depicts one of the widely known myths from Ovid’s Metamorphoses.

On 22 July, celebrations dedicated to the 308th anniversary of the Kadriorg Palace and park complex will take place in Kadriorg Park and the museums. This year’s special theme, in addition to the history of Kadriorg itself, is a cultural sphere that significantly influences our everyday lives: food culture.

The Art Museum of Estonia comprises five museums in Tallinn with a varied exhibition programme. These museums, each with its own image and focus, offer exceptional art exhibitions and a magical atmosphere that make your visit to the Estonian capital unforgettable.

In connection with Kumu’s 20th anniversary summer, Kristi Kongi’s exhibition Chromatic Drift and the museum’s inner courtyard will also be open on Mondays, when the rest of the museum is closed, from 25 May through 30 September. From the beginning of May through the end of September, two of the Art Museum of Estonia’s branches – the Kadriorg Art Museum and the Niguliste Museum – will also be open on Mondays.

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.