The Art Museum of Estonia comprises five museums in Tallinn with a varied exhibition programme. These museums, each with its own image and focus, offer exceptional art exhibitions and a magical atmosphere that make your visit to the Estonian capital unforgettable.

The exhibition Speaking Stones, opening on 19 June at the Adamson-Eric Museum, explores how stones and rocks have inspired stone carvers, as well as painters and jewellery artists, during different periods of history. The exhibition is being curated by Marge Laast.

The Conservation Department of the Art Museum of Estonia is celebrating its 50th anniversary with the triple exhibition From Restorer to Conservator. Two of these exhibitions will open on 10 April: the one in the Niguliste Museum will focus on the restoration of mediaeval and contemporary art, and the one in the Kadriorg Art Museum will take a look at the work of conservators of paintings. The third exhibition has been open in the Adamson-Eric Museum since 6 March and focuses on works of art on delicate and fragile paper. 

The Supervisory Board of the Art Museum of Estonia Foundation decided by consensus that Sirje Helme will continue as Chief Executive Officer of the Art Museum of Estonia Foundation for a further two years, in line with the candidate’s preferred contract length.

The exhibition From Restorer to Conservator will open in the Adamson-Eric Museum on 6 March, celebrating the golden jubilee of the Conservation Department of the Art Museum of Estonia.

At the end of 2025, the Art Museum of Estonia received a valuable donation from a private collection in Canada: the family of Evald and Alide Timusk donated seven artworks by well-known Estonian artists, including Adamson-Eric, Johannes Greenberg, Jaan Grünberg, Eerik Haamer, Karin Luts and Eduard Rüga.

In 2025, the Art Museum of Estonia’s branches, exhibitions and public programmes were visited by 388,600 art lovers.Over the course of the year, the number of visitors to the Art Museum of Estonia increased significantly. While art lovers visited our museums about 350,000 times each in 2023 and 2024, last year there were 38,600 more visitors.

Please note that all branches of the Art Museum of Estonia will be closed on December 24–26, December 29, and December 31–January 1. You’re very welcome to visit us on December 23, when all branches will be open until 3 p.m. We’ll also be happy to see you again from December 27 to 28 and on December 30, when the museum is open as usual. In the new year, all branches and exhibitions will reopen on Friday, January 2.

The Art Museum of Estonia, which celebrates its 106th anniversary on 17 November, offers art lovers extraordinary experiences at its exhibitions, including masterpieces by such great artists as Lucas Cranach, El Greco, Gerhard Richter, and Flemish and Dutch painters. The entire anniversary-week programme emphasises the museum’s role as an engaging partner for a wide and diverse audience: art speaks to all ages and in all languages.

Opening on 19 September at the Adamson-Eric Museum, The Politics of Slowness is a compelling new exhibition that explores what it means to be human in today’s fast-paced, productivity-obsessed world. Curated by Brigita Reinert and Karin Vicente, the exhibition presents slowness as both a survival strategy and a form of resistance in the face of constant acceleration.