Kalamaja museum’s new outdoor exhibition “Somewhere in Kalamaja” was opened during the Kalamaja Days settlement festival. The exhibition takes visitors on a journey to places and buildings that have disappeared, been destoryed or changed completely throughout the times.

Taking a look into the past we create a bridge between the current and former Kalamaja. The exhibition boards are waiting for visitors in nine different locations all over the district. The exhibition came to light from the initial idea to introduce notable places in Kalamaja and memories connected to them, that community members have shared with the museum.

The exhibition boards’ locations:

Kopli pedestrian bridge – Kopli 70a

Seywang arc – Kopli 68

Kalamaja cemetery park – Kungla 63

Kalarand – Kalaranna 8

Puhks’ grain elevator – Põhja pst 27

Balti jaam-Nunne street parking lot

Vana-Kalamaja and Kotzebue street intersection – Kotzebue 9

Skala cinema – Vabriku 6

State printing house – Niine 6a.

The journey to each exhibition board adds up to 4,7 kilometres.

The exact locations of the exhibition boards are available HERE

Kalamaja museum suggests! Interesting photos of Kalamaja can also be found in the ajapaik.ee portal.

Exhibition „Somewhere in Kalamaja“: 

Curator: Agnes Kesküla

Consultants: Risto Paju, Pia Ehasalu, Tõnu Pedaru

Artist: Eva Voog

Editor: Klaire Kolmann

Thank you: Jaak Juske, Kristi Paatsi, Ingrid Vagur, Tuuli Silber, Ene Piiroja, Valeria Potjava, Merle Tank, Andres Lall, Lennart Kumm, Jaak Juske, North-Tallinn and Central Tallinn, Tallinn City Museum, Estonian National Archive.

A separate thank you to Kalamaja museum community members Raigo Piilberg and Enno Tamm.

The exhibition texts are in Estonian and English. 

The exhibition will be up on the streets until November 2025.

Factory Ilmarine, in the background the destroyed Puhks’ grain elevator. 1928. Hans-Roland Võrk. National archive’s film archive, EFA.570.d.3428.