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ESTONIAN LITERARY MUSEUM
The Estonian Literary Museum (ELM; Estonian: Eesti Kirjandusmuuseum), is a national
research institute of the Ministry of Education and Research of the Republic of Estonia.
Its mission is to improve the cultural heritage of Estonia, to collect, preserve, research
and publish the results.
The history of the Estonian Literary Museum began in 1909 the founding of the
Estonian National Museum and Archive Library in Tartu. A working group for 1921 was
added, from 1927 to 1929 followed by two further divisions.
During the Second World War, the institute was split into two state museums covering
ethnography and literature. In 1946 the museums were re-merged. From 1957 the
Literary Museum holds an annual December two-day conference on literature and
folklore, the so-called Kreutzwald days to remember Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald,
one of the most important Estonian writers. Some years after the restoration of
independence in 1995, the museum received its former name back and extended the
publication of its annual almanac to articles, primary source texts and research.
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