Exhibitions

The Viljandi Museum, Laidoner Sq 10

Diatonic accordions are spread all over the world and become a part of different cultures. It is possible to distinguish between 40-50 different types of diatonic accordions. The exhibitions display the most common of those ranging from a concertina to a bayan.
In addition to this you can see diatonic accordions fashioned by Estonian instrument makers, and get to know, with the help of pictures and texts, such legendary diatonic accordion players and masters as August Teppo, Kalju Sarnit, Karl Kikas, Richard Reino, Aivar Teppo.

The exhibition was set up by Lüüli Kiik, Mare Hunt, Tarmo Noormaa and Aleksander Sünter.
The exhibition is open from July 19 to August 19.
At the time of the Festival Thr.-Sun. 10a.m.-5p.m.

The Viljandi Town Gallery, Tallinn Str. 11/1

The exhibition that has been on display in various museums all over Estonia has finally reached Viljandi. The exhibition offers you board games made in the years 1997-2006 by the University of Tartu Viljandi Culture Academy National Textile students. The visual side and game legends are closely connected with Estonian folklore. The process of completing the games has been supervised by Mare Hunt, a lecturer of general composition. It is no exaggeration to claim that these are the most beautiful board games in the world.
The exhibition has been on display fully in the Estonian National Museum and with somewhat fewer items in the Pärnu Museum and the Mahtra Peasantry Museum.

The exhibition was set up by Mare Hunt, Lüüli Kiik, Ave Matsin and Urmas Volmer.
The exhibition is open from July 17 to August 5.
At the time of the Festival Thr. 10a.m.-6p.m., Fri.-Sat. 10a.m.-8p.m.

Inkeri House, Pikk Str. 4

The exhibition is a collection of pictures taken by A.O. Väisänen (1890-1913), a Finnish Professor of Musical Science, and a Folklorist. The pictures show folk instruments and musicians and are taken in different regions at different times. Väisänen also visited Estonia several times to collect folklore. It was already in 1913 when he undertook a large-scale research trip to Setumaa as a student. This journey has also been published as a book “Setumaalta Harjumaalle” (From Setumaa to Harjumaa) edited by Timo Leisiö and based on Väisänen’s travel journal.

The exhibition is open at the time of the Festival Thr.-Sun. 9a.m.-4p.m.

Pikk Str. 8

The Kondas Centre of Naïve Art is a centre of naivist, contemporary folk art and outsider art. The permanent exhibition displays paintings by Paul Kondas, Hugo Sturm, Linda Lepik, Valter Riiner, and wooden sculptures by Joann Sõstra.

During the Festival the Kondas Centre offers an exhibition of collages titled “A Party in the Parsonage” by a self-taught Finnish artist Anna WildRose, a collection of naivist paintings titled “The Anton-Bird Out in the Action Again”, and self-made instruments by Erki Kannus, and paintings by a contemporary folk artist Ave Nahkur.

The garden of Kondas Centre hosts a play “Boat Stories”.
The Centre also hosts the Festival Men Singing workshops.

The Centre is open at the time of the Festival Thr. 10a.m.-10p.m., Fri.-Sat. 10a.m.-1.a.m., Sun. 10a.m.-8p.m.
Ticket 15EEK/ 5EEK (students, retired)