Evening house tours at the Under and Tuglas Literature Centre museum

For the museum’s anniversary year, from September to December, the Under and Tuglas Literature Centre museum holds monthly evening house tours. They tell the story of the writers’ lives in the Nõmme house, read their writing, show interesting objects from the institute’s collections and introduce the rooms where great figures of Estonian literature spent time. Visitors also get a glimpse behind the curtain of the museum’s research work and see current projects.

In the house at Väikese Illimari 12, Marie Under and Artur Adson lived from 1933 to 1944; during the Second World War they fled to Sweden. Afterwards Friedebert and Elo Tuglas, who had lost their home, moved in under the pines of Nõmme. In 1971 the Friedebert Tuglas House Museum was founded, and it opened to visitors in 1976. The museum holds the treasures of Friedebert and Elo Tuglas’s book, photo, manuscript and art collections, the legacy of Artur Adson and Marie Under, mainly from their exile years, the Estonian Cultural Fund’s art collection from the United States, and the cultural collection of art and literary critic Paul Reets. The house, together with the writers’ garden, has kept its cosy character: it seems the writer has just stepped out for a walk, with a quill and an inkwell waiting on the desk for the next line.

Tours in Estonian take place on 7 September, 6 October and 11 December at 17:00.

The English-language tour takes place on 4 November at 17:00.

Tours last about one hour. More information is on the Under and Tuglas Literature Institute’s website.