The University of Tartu Art Museum is one of the oldest museum in Estonia being founded in 1803. The Museum was established in the University in order to illustrate lectures and develop the students' taste for art.
The Museum as founded by its first director, Prof Karl Morgenstern (1770-1852), had a wide variety of collections, mirroring the principles of the Enlightenment and displaying various forms of art and the art of different countries. In the middle of the 19th century, the Museum was renamed the Museum of Classical Antiquities with its emphasis only on ancient art. The Museum was opened to the general public outside the academic circles in 1862 and thereby acquired a greater significance. The Museum moved to its present location in the left wing of the University Main Building in 1868.
Since 1998, the Museum bears its former name – The University of Tartu Art Museum, and in addition to ancient art, visitors can have a look at exhibitions displaying other collections of the Museum and contemporary Estonian art.
The collections are housed in the Old Anatomical Theatre – built especially for the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Tartu. As early as 1890 a museum of quality preparations and original models was set up for the purpose of teaching anatomy...
Location: Kastre vald, Lange küla, Tartumaa, 62115
The Estonian Aviation Museum started from a private collection and opened its doors as a museum in 2000.
The exhibits you can see in the museum's yard are helicopters Mi-2, Mi-8 and Schweizer 300, training aircraft Wilga-35, Aero L-29...
The UT History Museum showcases the history of science and university education in Tartu from the 17th century to the present day.
The museum is located on Toome Hill, which has also been poetically described as an abode of the muses....
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