Pärand ja perestroika. Muutused muuseumides 1980. aastate lõpul–1990. aastate alguses
Legacy and Perestroika. Changes in museums at the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s

Summary/Abstract: The second half of the 1980s and the first half of the 1990s was among the most cataclysmic periods in the history of museums in Estonia. The critical changes that occurred during the Baltic revolution also had an effect on the cultural sphere, which experienced major changes on the institutional, imagological and ideological levels. This article concentrates on problems of museums – how the meaning and role of memory institutions changed in society, the most important cultural and political steps in the area, and what the museums did to maintain their active position during the period of change. The architectural competitions organised during this period, as well as the problems associated with the construction of museum buildings, have not been covered in the article.

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