Culturally important buildings need to be recognized in Estonia s second and third cities, Tartu and Narva, as much as they already are in the capital, one architecture expert says.
Mart Kalm, rector of the Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA) and an architectural historian, told ETV current affairs show Ringvaade Thursday that the Tartu Art Museum (Tartu Kunstimuuseum) and the planned Kreenholm Manufaktuur (Kreenholm Manufacturing Company) in Narva are deserving of support, in order to halt a widening gap between Tallinn and other towns, within the cultural sphere.
Kalm said: The difference between Tartu and Tallinn has never been as great as it is now. Tartu has a clear potential to be a city of 200,000 inhabitants (its current population is just under half that – ed.).