{"id":5921,"date":"2025-05-08T13:06:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T13:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meremuuseum.ee\/lennusadam\/?p=5921"},"modified":"2025-05-08T13:07:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T13:07:20","slug":"the-maritime-museums-jubilee-exhibition-offers-a-time-traveling-experience-to-the-museums-early-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meremuuseum.ee\/lennusadam\/en\/2025\/05\/08\/the-maritime-museums-jubilee-exhibition-offers-a-time-traveling-experience-to-the-museums-early-days\/","title":{"rendered":"The Maritime Museum’s Jubilee Exhibition offers a time-traveling experience to the Museum’s early days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
On May 12, the Estonian Maritime Museum will open its jubilee exhibition \u201cBEGINNING. Estonian Maritime Museum 1935\u20131940\u201d<\/em> at the Seaplane Harbour, dedicated to the museum\u2019s 90th year of operation. The exhibition takes visitors on an immersive, era-authentic journey into the founding years of the museum. It will remain open until January 11, 2026.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to the Head of the Maritime Museum, Urmas Dresen, the idea for the Estonian Maritime Museum was sparked in the 1930s by local seafarers who wished to preserve their maritime lives and adventures. \u201cThe discovery of historically valuable items during an inventory at the Port Factory warehouses and the desire to safeguard materials related to seafaring motivated the founding of the museum. This jubilee exhibition takes visitors on an immersive journey back to the museum\u2019s early years and highlights the importance of preserving maritime history as part of Estonia\u2019s identity as a maritime nation,\u201d says Urmas Dresen, longtime Head of the Estonian Maritime Museum and one of the exhibition’s curators. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In 1935, an adapted warehouse in the Tallinn harbor became home to the museum’s first exhibition, showcasing ship models, paintings, photographs, and numerous maritime-related artifacts. \u201cSince much of what was exhibited back then has survived to this day, we can present the museum\u2019s early activities in the lively harbour environment in a very authentic manner,\u201d Dresen adds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Jubilee Exhibition features fascinating gems from the Museum’s collection<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe exhibition includes a ship model handcrafted by the museum\u2019s first director, Madis Mei, as well as a unique model made from the bones of a marine animal\u2014something rare in the Estonian muuseums scenery,\u201d says Dresen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Visitors will also see the flag of a sailing boat that sank near Ristna, Hiiumaa, in 1932, and a diving suit from 1935 featured in the exhibition\u2019s signature visual. \u201cThe diver was one of the museum\u2019s very first exhibits and usually greets visitors in our permanent exhibition at Fat Margaret,\u201d Dresen notes. A Multi-Sensory Experience reflecting the period\u2019s atmosphere<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n Contemporary solutions are used to recreate the atmosphere of the museum\u2019s birth as faithfully as possible. \u201cIn the first room, for example, we\u2019ve used a special lighting design that allows visitors to experience a black-and-white, era-inspired space with a miniature model of the original museum building in the background,\u201d explains Dresen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The founding of the Estonian Maritime Museum coincided with a golden age of maritime museum creation across Europe. \u201cAt that time steam ships began to replace sailing ships prompting the need to document the preceding era. While the Estonian Maritime Museum was opened in 1935, the world\u2019s largest maritime museum, the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, was established two years later,\u201d concludes Dresen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The exhibition will be opened to visitors at the Seaplane Harbour from May 12, 2025, until January 11, 2026.
Please see the The Diver\u2019s journey from Fat Margaret\u2019s to the Seaplane Harbour <\/em>HERE.<\/em><\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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