The Museum of the Under and Tuglas Literature Centre
The Museum of the Under and Tuglas Literature Centre at 12 Väikese Illimari St in Nõmme is located in the house that belonged to Marie Under and Artur Adson and where the literary couple lived from 1933 to 1944. The house was also the home of Elo and Friedebert Tuglas from 1944 to 1971.The House Museum of Friedebert Tuglas, founded in 1971 as a research base under the Institute of Estonian Language and Literature of the Academy of Sciences and renamed in January 1993 as the Under and Tuglas Literature Centre, was opened to the public on 2 March, 1976. The building is surrounded by a garden created by the Tuglas family.
The Museum’s collection includes more than 41,000 items of the Tuglas estate – library, collections of art, photos and newspaper cuttings, memorial items – as well as since 1993 Marie Under’s and Artur Adson’s library, works of art and personal things acquired in Sweden (3354 items).
Every year on 2 March, the Friedebert Tuglas Short Story Awards are given here. The Museum continues the series of recorded literary meetings of the Tallinn House of Scientists which began in 1979, organizes academic conferences and symposia, book presentations, special celebrations and other cultural events.
The Museum serves researchers in the reading room and receives tours on weekdays with prior agreement (Tel: 6 722 847 and 6 722 846, e-mail: tuglas(at)utkk.ee)
The Museum sells the volumes 7 (Kriitika (Criticism) I and II), 9 (Kriitika V and VI) and 10 (Kriitika VII and VIII) of Friedebert Tuglas’s Kogutud Teosed (Collected Works) as well as other UTLC publications.