Guild Painters: Artistic Creation Between Innovation and Tradition in Baltic Provinces from 17th to 19th Century
The research project examines an area that has been little studied so far – the painters of guilds in the period of the 17th-19th centuries in Estonia. It is planned as a broad multidisciplinary approach that ...
Project WOODMEADOWLIFE
The Estonian-Latvian joint LIFE project (LIFE20 NAT/EE/000074) “Restoring and promoting a long-term sustainable management of Fennoscandian wooded meadows in Estonia and Latvia” focuses on the restoration of wooded meadows in ...
LIFE IP BuildEST
In view of Estonia's climate goals, the Estonian Academy of Arts participates in the international project Life IP BUILDEST (2021 - 2028), the task of which is to show direction and give impetus to the complete renovation of private houses built ...
Bernt Notke: The Research and Conservation of the Retable of the Church of the Holy Spirit
The late medieval retable of the High Altar of the Church of the Holy Spirit, Tallinn, is an outstanding masterpiece of woodcarving and painting of international renown, completed in 1483 in the workshop of Bernt Notke, a prominent master of ...
Tallinn Old Town: Sustainable Management and Presentation
The aim of the research is to analyse the impact of increasing tourism on cultural heritage and to find solutions to promote Tallinn Old Town as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, while preserving its dignity and values. The main goal of the project ...
Compiling and Publishing of a Glossary of Architecture
The aim of the project is to compile and publish an illustrated comprehensive glossary of architectural terms to have a reliable source and manual for engineers, architects, art historians, conservators and others. The glossary would ...
Estonian Churches: Development, Improvement and Completion of the Construction History, Conservation and Research Database (phase 2)
The aim of creating the Estonian churches’ database was to provide an internet environment accessible to the scholars, conservators and the broader public and brings together all information on the ...
Development of the Discipline of Technical Art History for the Analysis of Cultural Heritage in Estonia
Technical art history is an interdisciplinary field of heritage studies combining methods from arts and sciences and uses contemporary information and communication technology (ICT) for acquiring, processing, archiving, contextualising and ...
Studies of the Estonian 20th-Century Built Environment
This project contains two main focuses: the study of the 20th-century construction history, construction materials and their preservation on the one hand, and the analysis of the heritage aspects in the planning policies ...
Christian Ackermann – the Arrogant and Talented Pheidias of Tallinn
Christian Ackermann was the most talented and scandalous wood carver of the baroque-era Estonia. By implementing the cutting edge investigation technologies of technical art history the project aims to identify the nature of ...
Mapping and Analysing Valuable 20th-Century Architecture (1870–1991) in Estonia
The 20th-century architectural heritage in Estonia is extremely diverse and it needs to be protected and recorded according to its typological diversity: starting from urban planning and landscaping to summer houses and micro ...
Inventory of 20th-Century Architecture
The vulnerability of the 20th-century architecture has been an undisguised problem since Estonia restored its independence. In 2007 the Ministry of Culture and the National Heritage Board initiated a programme “Mapping and analysing valuable ...