Estonian National Museum

Beschreibung

Estonian National Museum's (established in 1909) aim is to help locals and tourists alike to get inspired by Estonian culture.

We have two permanent exhibitions "Encounters" and "Echo of the Urals".

"Encounters" talks about the regular Estonian people who have lived here through the ages. Visitors are invited to peek into their daily lives, to observe the way they have fought to get by, living in either the city or the countryside - but also the way they have navigated the social norms of their times, the powers that be of any period in history, or the greater processes of world history. 

The exhibition gives the visitors glimpses into the language, folklore and skills of the people who live in Estonia. The Estonian National Museum displays thousands of artefacts and images, and hundreds of sound recordings from both their own archives and the archives and collections of other museums in Estonia from all periods. Several of these exhibits are displayed to the public for the first time. 

This exhibition consists of the following subsections:

• Journeys in Time (Time of Freedoms, Life Behind the Iron Curtain, Modern Times, The Era of Books, The Arrival of Christianity, The Metal Age, The Stone Age)
• People and the Environment
• My Own Abode
• The Runo Song
• The People and the State
• Food We Cook
• The Imprint of Time on Estonian Wraps
• Do It Yourself Hall
• The Language Brew
• Parallel Worlds. Parallel Lives
• Rural Life and Rural Beauty
• Cities within a City

"Echo of the Urals" is the permanent exhibition of the Estonian National Museum, offering insight into how the Finno-Ugric peoples might think as well as their culture, languages and genetic background. The exhibition also briefly explores how the tiny Finno-Ugric nation groups are doing today.

The exhibition is dedicated to the Finno-Ugric indigenous peoples without their own statehood who inhabit an immense swath of land from Scandinavia in the northern part of Eurasia and the Baltic Sea to the Taymyr Peninsula and Yenisei River in Siberia. The Finno-Ugric are settled down to – in some areas – the Danube and the Volga River, in the south. The central idea of the exhibition is inspired by the differences between the daily activities, rituals and traditional art of Finno-Ugric women and men.