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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.). ....
Trivimi Velliste, head of the Konstantin Päts Museum, turned to the Ministry of Justice to ask for an extension of the grant contract for the monument for Konstantin Päts as the development has been delayed. Last summer, a jury decided that a design by Toivo Tammik and Vergo Vernik called Head of State was to be erected behind the Estonian National Opera in Tallinn, honoring the legacy of Konstantin Päts, the first president of Estonia (1938-1940). The architectural planning and artistic execution of the monument however have turned out to be more complicated than expected, Velliste noted. The authors of the design have found out that there is no granite rock in Estonia that is sufficiently sized and of high enough quality. It needs to be brought in, which is more expensive and time-consuming, Velliste wrote in a letter to the justice ministry. ....