This exhibition explores the numerous art purchases of the Baltic German nobleman Wilhelm von Blanckenhagen (1761–1840) and his relations with the international art community of Rome, one of the most important art centres in Europe. Among the artworks he brought to Livonia were those by leading artists of the German Romantic movement.

In the new visible storage space on the ground floor of Kadriorg Palace, visitors can explore the museum’s Western European and Russian sculpture collection, comprised of over 250 artworks dating from the 18th to the 20th centuries.

The permanent exposition of the Kadriorg Art Museum presents the cream of the foreign art collection of the Art Museum of Estonia, which consists mostly of paintings, sculptures and applied art from Western Europe and Russia from the 16th to the 20th centuries.