Kumu (Museum)

The Kumu ( Estonian abbreviation for Kunstimuuseum ) is an art museum in Tallinn Kadriorg district. It is the largest and most modern art museum in the Baltic States and one of the largest in Northern Europe.

The Kumu was inaugurated in February 2006 after a construction period of three years. His exhibition area is 5000 m², the entire complex 20 acres. Architect is the Finn Pekka Vapaavuori, who had won the corresponding alert already in 1994. The construction costs amounted to 50 million euros.

The seven- story museum has a permanent exhibition next to temporary exhibitions. It covers Estonian art from the 18th century. A separate section is devoted to the Socialist Realism during the Soviet occupation of Estonia (1940-1991) and non- conformist Soviet art.

The Kumu has no great works of international art scene, but shows in its permanent exhibition Estonian forms of the major European art eras of modern times. It thus offers a remarkable and comprehensive presentation of Baltic art. Impressive is an installation speaking with dozens of busts.

In 2008, the Kumu was elected to the European Museum of the Year.

In the Museum located next to a restaurant, lecture halls and a museum shop, the office rooms of the Estonian Art Museum (EKM ). This covers not only the Kumu Tallinn Kadriorg Palace Museum, Mikkel Museum, St. Nicholas' Museum, Adamson -Eric Museum, Kristjan Raud and Museum.

Special

As part of the events for the Year of European Capital of Culture Tallinn 2011 in the Goethe Institute showed together with the Kumu and other institutions, the exhibition gateways from May to September of the year in the museum.

Pictures of Kumu (selection)

Hukkuva Laeva viimane height, Amandus Adamson, 1899

Portrait of Marie Reisik, charcoal and pastel, Konrad Mägi (1878-1925)