Venues
The conference takes place on 14–16 April 2027 at two venues and is fully on-site.
The first two days, 14 and 15 April 2027, are hosted by the Estonian National Museum in Tartu, and the third day, 16 April, by the University of Tartu Viljandi Culture Academy in Viljandi, with tours and workshops.
Transport between Tartu and Viljandi on 16 April is organised by the conference.
Estonian National Museum
The Estonian National Museum is located in Tartu. The museum is situated 2 kilometres from the city centre. The address is Muuseumi tee 2, Tartu. The main entrance is A.
The Estonian National Museum (ENM) was founded in Tartu in 1909. The ENM’s new building, designed by the Paris-based architecture firm DGT Architects, opened in October 2016.
The museum has 6000 square metres of exhibition space. Most of this space is dedicated to the permanent exhibition Encounters, which expands on Estonian cultural history and everyday life and spans a timeline from the present day to the Ice Age.
The second-largest permanent exhibition is Echo of the Urals, which provides insight into the lives of people who speak Finno-Ugric languages and inhabit the northern parts of this corner of the world. The exhibition takes visitors through four seasons, introducing people related to Estonians.
See more: https://www.erm.ee/en/
Wi-Fi
You can use free Wi-Fi at ENM.
European two-pin plugs are located in auditoriums and the museum library.
The Museum’s library, close to the main entrance, is open from Tuesday to Friday 10:00–17:00. Computers are available for use and phones can be charged.
University of Tartu Viljandi Culture Academy
UT Viljandi Culture Academy is one of the four colleges of the University of Tartu, which ranks among the world’s top universities, and is the most reputable university in Estonia. The academy offers top-level education, knowledge of creative entrepreneurship, the opportunity to participate in awesome projects and cooperate actively with the community.
Our raison d'être is sustaining and developing the values of Estonian traditional culture. At the same time, we are open to new impulses of modern society and intercultural communication, and through that continuous interaction, the ancient traditions gain new meaning and value. We try to unite knowledge and culture in the best possible way.
The academy is an exciting place to develop further your creative skills and broaden your intellectual horizons. Besides the theoretical knowledge, our graduates obtain practical experience, which enables them to have a steady position upon entering the labour market. In undergraduate applied higher education programmes, one can study in such fields as performing arts (theatre, dance, theatre technical arts), Estonian native crafts (textile, metalwork, construction, regenerative craft), music (rhythm music, traditional music, music pedagogy, sound engineering and music production), culture management and community education and hobby activity. The academy is also offering four Master's programmes: Teacher of Arts and Technology and Creative Applications of Cultural Heritage in Estonian and Creative Project Management and Folkloristics and Applied Heritage Studies, taught in English.
See more: https://viljandi.ut.ee/en/about-us