Tartu City Museum

Tartu City History Museums
Tartu Linnaajaloo Muuseumid
The Tartu City Museum building, the institution's flagship branch
Established1955 (1955)
LocationNarva mnt 23, Tartu, Estonia
Coordinates58°22′55″N 26°43′44″E / 58.3820°N 26.7289°E / 58.3820; 26.7289
TypeHistory museum
DirectorRisto Lehiste
OwnerCity of Tartu
Websitemuuseum.tartu.ee

Tartu City History Museums (officially Tartu City Museum; Estonian: Tartu Linnaajaloo Muuseumid) is a group of five branch museums administered by the city of Tartu, Estonia. It is financed from the budget of the City of Tartu together with targeted grants applied for by the museum.[1]

The institution's purpose is to document and communicate the diverse history and present-day life of Tartu and to preserve and shape the identity of Tartu as a home city.[2]

It comprises the Tartu City Museum, the Song Festival Museum, the KGB Cells Museum, the Oskar Luts House Museum, and the 19th-century Tartu Citizen's Museum.[3] Although Tartu City Museum remains the institution's official name, the brand name Tartu City History Museums has been used alongside it since August 2020.[4][3][5]

History

Tartu City History Museums originated from the Tartu Interdistrict Local History Museum, established in 1955. Its tasks included researching and presenting in exhibitions the history, natural history, industry, agriculture and culture of the city of Tartu and eight surrounding districts: Tartu, Elva, Jõgeva, Kallaste, Mustvee, Otepää, Põlva and Räpina.[6]

Until 2000, the museum was located on the edge of Kassitoome, at Oru 2.[7][8]

Since its establishment, the institution has been headed by Hilja Kullaste, Lia Essenson-Kevvai, Evy Männik, Aili Suur-Raendi, Heivi Pullerits, Sirje Karis and Merike Toomas.[9][10] Since 2022, the director has been Risto Lehiste.[11]

Branch museums

The five branch museums are located in different districts of Tartu.

Tartu City Museum is located at Narva mnt 23. It opened at this location on 31 August 2001.[12][13]

Oskar Luts House Museum is located at Riia 38. It opened on 22 March 1964, eleven years after the death of writer Oskar Luts.[14][15]

The 19th-century Tartu Citizen's Museum occupies a wooden residential building completed in the 1740s at Jaani Street 16 in central Tartu, arranged as the home of a middle-class citizen in the 1830s. It opened on 7 July 1993.[16]

The Song Festival Museum is located at Jaama Street 14, in the former building of the Vanemuine Society, and covers, among other subjects, traditions initiated by the society. It opened on 19 October 2007.[17]

The KGB Cells Museum is located at Riia 15b, where the Tartu department of the Ministry of State Security of the Estonian SSR operated in the 1940s and 1950s. It opened on 12 October 2001.[18][19]

Collections

As of the end of 2023, the museum's collections comprised 190,499 objects. These included 76,773 archaeological objects, 58,673 photographs, 31,178 archival items, 14,990 historical objects, 6,851 numismatic objects, 1,930 works of art and 104 audiovisual objects.[20]

References

  1. ↑ "Tartu Linnamuuseumi arengukava 2025–2029" (PDF). Riigi Teataja (in Estonian). 29 April 2025. Retrieved 18 May 2025.
  2. ↑ "Organisatsioonist". Muuseumide koduleht (in Estonian). 2021. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
  3. 1 2 Valne, Valmer (11 August 2020). "Viis muuseumi muutusid Tartu Linnaajaloo Muuseumideks". ERR Uudised (in Estonian). Retrieved 6 January 2021.
  4. ↑ "Viis muuseumi muutusid Tartu Linnaajaloo Muuseumideks". ERR (in Estonian). 11 August 2022. Retrieved 18 May 2025.
  5. ↑ Lehiste, Risto (4 March 2025). "Risto Lehiste: linnamuuseum või linlaste muuseum?" (in Estonian). Retrieved 18 May 2025.
  6. ↑ Pullerits, Heivi (2007). Linnamuuseum ja tema aeg (in Estonian). Tartu: Tartu linnamuuseum.
  7. ↑ "Tartu linnamuuseum (Oru 2), 1956". Ajapaik (in Estonian). Retrieved 18 May 2025.
  8. ↑ Saar, Jüri (1 November 2000). "Linnamuuseum kolib kogusid Katariina majja". Tartu Postimees (in Estonian). Retrieved 18 May 2025.
  9. ↑ "Tartu Linnamuuseum". Eesti Entsüklopeedia (in Estonian). 2011. Retrieved 18 May 2025.
  10. ↑ "Sirje Karis lahkub Tartu linnamuuseumi direktori kohalt". ERR (in Estonian). 8 June 2022. Retrieved 18 May 2025.
  11. ↑ "Tartu linnamuuseumi direktoriks saab Risto Lehiste". Tartu Postimees (in Estonian). 19 July 2022. Retrieved 18 May 2025.
  12. ↑ "Muuseumi lugu". Tartu linnamuuseumi veebileht (in Estonian). Retrieved 18 May 2025.
  13. ↑ "Tartu Linnamuuseumi uue maja avamine 31.08.2001". Ajapaik (in Estonian). Retrieved 18 May 2025.
  14. ↑ "Muuseumi lugu". Tartu Linnamuuseumi veebileht (in Estonian). Retrieved 18 May 2025.
  15. ↑ Hanson, Raimu (15 March 2024). "Tartu Tulemine ⟩ Imelik, et Oskar Lutsu majamuuseumi rohked uudistajad pole treppi ära kulutanud". Tartu Postimees (in Estonian). Retrieved 18 May 2025.
  16. ↑ "Muuseumi lugu". Tartu linnamuuseumi veebileht (in Estonian). Retrieved 18 May 2025.
  17. ↑ "Muuseumi lugu". Tartu Linnamuuseumi veebileht (in Estonian). Retrieved 18 May 2025.
  18. ↑ "KGB Kongide Muuseum Tartus". Military Heritage Tourism. Retrieved 18 May 2025.
  19. ↑ Kuusk, Pearu (9 June 2006). "KGB Kongide muuseum Tartus" (in Estonian). Retrieved 18 May 2025.
  20. ↑ "Tartu Linnamuuseumi arengukava 2025–2029" (PDF). Riigi Teataja (in Estonian). 29 April 2025. Retrieved 18 May 2025.
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