Estonian Museum of Architecture

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Estonian Museum of Architecture

Estonian Museum of Architecture focuses on collecting, researching, and displaying 20^th-century and contemporary Estonian architecture. The Museum has an exhaustive archive of drawings and design projects from the 1920s–1930s as well as from the Soviet period, also a photo archive and a collection of models.

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Exhibition Miracles in Concrete. Structural engineer August Komendant, 2020. ©Marje Eelma/Estonian Museum of Architecture

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Exhibition Feminist Questions to Architecture, 2019. ©Reio Avaste/Estonian Museum of Architecture

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Permanent exhibition Explore the Space! in the vaulted cellar hall, 2019. ©Estonian Museum of Architecture

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Collection

The Museum’s collection is divided into the archive-, photo-, model-, furniture-, and art collections. The archive collection comprises ca 11,850 items, including city plans, building projects, architectural drawings, as well as photos and manuscript documents. Architects’ personal funds make up a considerable part of the collection. Complementing the collection of projects and drawings is the model collection, a part of which is on permanent display on the first floor of the museum. The photo collection, which comprises nearly 18,000 photos and negatives, is one of the largest collections of architectural photographs in Estonia. The two smaller collections – the furniture- and art collections – include pieces of furniture, drawings, paintings, and graphic works designed by architects. Collections are available online through the Estonian Museum’s Information System MUIS: https://www.muis.ee/en_GB/ Drawings may be reproduced. Institution does not have a conservation laboratory.