Culturally important buildings need to be recognized in Estonia s second and third cities, Tartu and Narva, as much as they already are in the capital, one architecture expert says.
Mart Kalm, rector of the Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA) and an architectural historian, told ETV current affairs show Ringvaade Thursday that the Tartu Art Museum (Tartu Kunstimuuseum) and the planned Kreenholm Manufaktuur (Kreenholm Manufacturing Company) in Narva are deserving of support, in order to halt a widening gap between Tallinn and other towns, within the cultural sphere.
Kalm said: The difference between Tartu and Tallinn has never been as great as it is now. Tartu has a clear potential to be a city of 200,000 inhabitants (its current population is just under half that – ed.).
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The presidents of Russia, Hungary and Finland have been invited to this summer s VIII World Congress of Finno-Ugric Peoples in Tartu, the Office of the President has said. President Kersti Kaljulaid s invitations to all three presidents - Russian President Vladimir Putin, Finnish President Sauli Niinistö and Hungarian President Janos Ader - are still valid, spokesperson Mailin Aasmäe told ERR on Wednesday.
The invitations were sent in 2019 and the congress was initially planned for June 2020, but postponed until 2021 due to coronavirus.
It is not known if Putin will attend and in previous years Russia s prime minister has been sent in his place.
ETV morning program Terevisioon talked to the director of the Estonian National Museum (ERM), Alar Karis who admitted that, even though the period of the virus has suspended a lot of ideas and has spirited away a large part of potential income and visitors, the museum is still looking into its future. ERM, situated in Tartu, is planning to move some of its stock to Tallinn, as temporary exhibitions, from early summer.
Karis has filled the position for a little over three years and admitted that the virus has suspended a lot of ideas, thoughts, which they would have like to implement or implement faster.