Kumu Art Museum

Kumu Art Museum

Weizenbergi 34 / Valge 1
10127 Tallinn
Estonia
Hours: Tuesday–Saturday 10am–6pm,
Thursday 10am–8pm
kumu@ekm.ee

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The aim of the Kumu Art Museum, opened in 2006, is to preserve and interpret Estonian art from the 18th century to the present day.

Kumu views its role as being an initiator of a social and cultural debate in connection with both expositions of art history and events in the Gallery of Contemporary Art, which has become an incubator for new ideas for domestic and foreign artists. Besides preservation, important tasks of the museum include displaying the works of art in its collections to initiate debates on their meaning and to shape various interpretative environments. In the fifteen years before Kumu was opened, people did not have constant access to the classics of Estonian art and the permanent display of Soviet art only became possible once Kumu opened. Our expositions need to speak to different audiences: to the well-versed and the relatively unknowing, the old and the young, local and foreign visitors, schoolchildren and to their teachers, art lovers and art experts.

In 2008, the Kumu Art Museum received the European Museum of the Year Award from the European Museum Forum.

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