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This Month in GLAM – Volume VII, Issue VIII, August 2017

Estonia report

First Art Exhibition in the Estonian Wikipedia is now opened

First Art Exhibition in the Estonian Wikipedia

In the early days of August an exhibition The decisive years prior to Independence: Moments from the Estonian art of 1914–18 was opened as a part of Europeana project. It contains works from both of Tartu Art Museum and Art Museum of Estonia, and therefore carries on the cooperation with TARTMUS and marks the start of cooperation with Art Museum of Estonia.

Merli-Triin Eiskop, a curator of collections of TARTMUS, has said that she is glad for the supportive and active collaboration from the side of Wikimedia Eesti. She believes that this kind of format helps to spread the knowledge both inside Estonian and abroad about the art classics that the Estonian museums have in their collection. "Both museums made an independent selection of works and that has formed an interesting mosaic - a glimpse into a fascinating period in the Estonian art and history."