Art Museum of Estonia
In September, 1991 the Kadriorg Palace was
closed, because it had totally deteriorated by then. At the end of the year the Supreme Council
of the Republic of Estonia decided to guarantee the construction of a new building for the Art
Museum of Estonia in Kadriorg. Untill then the Knighthood House at Toompea Hill served as
the temporary main building of the Art Museum of Estonia. The exhibition there was opened
on April 1, 1993. Art Museum of Estonia premanently closed down the exhibitions in that
building in October 2005.
At the end of the 1970s, in the 1980s the first branches of the Art Museum of Estonia were
founded. Starting from the 1995 all the branches offer different educational programmes for
children and young people. In 1996 the exhibition hall on the first floor of Rotermann Salt
Storage was opened, this branch was closed in May 2005. In summer 2000 the restored
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