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_(7643040944).jpg) Entrance to the Kumu Art Museum | |
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| Established | 17 February 2006 (2006-02-17) |
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| Location | Weizenbergi 34 / Valge 1,Tallinn,Estonia |
| Coordinates | 59°26′11″N24°47′47″E / 59.43639°N 24.79639°E /59.43639; 24.79639 |
| Type | Art museum |
| Visitors | 128,712 (2013)[1][2] |
| Director | Kadi Polli |
| Public transit access | "Kumu", TLT  31, 67, 68; 39 |
| Website | https://kumu.ekm.ee/en/ |
TheKumu Art Museum (Estonian:Kumu kunstimuuseum) is anart museum inTallinn,Estonia. It is one of the largest museums in Estonia and one of the largest art museums inNorthern Europe. It is one of the five branches of theArt Museum of Estonia, housing its main offices.
"Kumu" is a stylisedportmanteauabbreviation of theEstonian wordskunstimuuseum ("museum of art").
Kumu presents both permanent collections and temporary exhibitions. The main collection covers Estonian art from the 18th century onwards, including works from the occupations' period (1940–1991) and showing bothSocialist realism and what was thenNonconformist art. Temporary exhibitions include both foreign and Estonianmodern andcontemporary art.
Kumu received the prestigiousEuropean Museum of the Year Award of 2008 from the European Museum Forum.[3]
The designer of the building isPekka Vapaavuori, a Finnish architect who won the competition in 1994. Construction took place between 2003–2006. The museum is set into the limestone slope ofLasnamäe hill to harmonise, despite its size, with centuries-oldKadriorg Park.
The Art Museum of Estonia was founded on 17 November 1919. It was not until 1921 that it got its first permanent building — the 18th-centuryKadriorg Palace. In 1929, the palace was expropriated from the Art Museum in order to rebuild it as the residence of the head of state of Estonia.
The Art Museum of Estonia was housed in several different temporary spaces until it moved back to the palace in 1946. When Estonia regained independence in 1991, Kadriorg Palace was closed for renovation, since it had fallen into almost complete disrepair during theSoviet occupation of Estonia (1944–1991). At the end of 1991, the Estonian parliament decided to secure the construction of a new building for the Art Museum of Estonia inKadriorg Park. Until the new building was finished, theEstonian Knighthood House atToompea hill in theTallinn Old Town served as the temporary main building of the Art Museum of Estonia. The exhibition there was opened on 1 April 1993. The Art Museum of Estonia permanently closed down the exhibitions in that building in October 2005. In the summer of 2000 the restored Kadriorg Palace was opened, but not as the main building of the Art Museum of Estonia, but as a branch. The Kadriorg Art Museum now exhibits the foreign art collection of the Art Museum of Estonia.
Kumu includes exhibition halls, an auditorium that offers diverse possibilities, and an education centre for children and art lovers (see above). Kumu has a thorough collection of Estonian art, including paintings byCarl Timoleon von Neff,Oscar Hoffmann,Ants Laikmaa, Julia Hagen-Schwarz,Oskar Kallis,Konrad Mägi,Jaan Koort, Henn Roode, andJohannes Greenberg.
The museum served as one of several locations for the fictional Oslo Freeport for the 2020 movieTenet.[4]
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