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The
main collection of the architecture museum contains maps of towns and other
settlements, architectural drawings and projects, textual materials
connected with them, models, papers on architecture and town building,
reflecting the formation and development of Estonian professional
architecture through the 20th century to the present day. The number of
holdings in the collection amounts to 10 000 with in excess of 30,000
prints and drawings.
The
oldest pieces of the collection are the facade and interior design drawings
of the House of Chivalry in Tallinn’s Toompea area of 1848 by the St.
Petersburg architect Georg Winterhalter.
The
highlights of the collection are Tallinn’s German Theatre competition
entries and drawings by the St. Petersburg architects Alexey Bubyr and
Nikolai Vasilyev, as well as interior and furniture designs for the Estonia
Theatre (1911–12) by the Finnish architects Armas Lindgren and Wivi Lönn.
The so-called greater Tallinn plan by the prominent Finnish architect Eliel
Saarinen of 1913 is kept in the museum as a deposit.
Materials
from the 1920s and 30s make up the core and simultaneously the most
numerous part of the collection. These contain town maps, plans, drawings
of nearly 700 residential houses, as well as of theatres, community
centres, schools, administrative buildings and banks.
Also
post-war architecture of the 1940s and 50s is relatively well represented. The
materials include master plans of cities, plans of new main squares,
designs of grand Victory monuments, entries of competitions for standard
designs of residential houses, schools, kindergartens and other buildings,
but also the Tallinn Song Festival Grandstand winning competition entry and
many other items.
The
Museum also collects recent competition projects, such as winning entries
for the Estonian Art Museum competition, the biggest international
competition in Estonia (1994), the new administrative building of the
Tallinn city government (2009) etc.
Architects’
personal collections, constitute a significant part of the main
collection. Besides projects and drawings, these collections, which are
mostly donated to the museum by inheritors, contain also student work,
sketches, photographs, manuscripts, correspondence, memoirs as well as
personal effects.
The
museum’s collection of models, which now amounts to 200 models
of areas and individual buildings, keeps constantly growing.
The
museum also has a small furniture collection, containing 1920s’ and
30s’ furniture in the national style as well as a selection of modern
Estonian designer furniture.
The
Head of the main collection: Anne Lass +372 625
7004
The
photo collection holds around 15 000 photos, negatives and slides, where
the buildings, drawings, architects and events of architectural life are
depicted. Copies available for researches and publishers.
Photo
collection's manager: Matis
Rodin+372 625 7002
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