News

The closing event of the FILTER project took place on September 3 at the Finnish Literature Society.
The 93rd volume of Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore presents articles from various fields of study.
Dear colleagues, We invite you to the conference “Humour and Conflict in the Public Sphere” that will take place in the…
On 28 June, 5PM, we will open an international technological art exhibition Enter Woodland Spirits. The show together…
At the webinar on Monday, 13 May Dr. Liat Steir-Livny (PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Culture, Sapir Academic…
You are welcome to spend a lovely spring evening at the Estonian Literary Museum. During the Museum Night, we will…
Most of the articles in the 92nd issue of the journal Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore are related to gender…
18th and 19th century led to new forms of national and cultural identity expression and self-definition, including…
The 91st volume of Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore, compiled by guest editors Mari Sarv, Ave Goršič and Risto…
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The Department of Folklore was founded in 1947 and is engaged in the study of figurative speech, religion, stories and multimedia of Estonian and other nations, as well as the publication of electronic magazines and the establishment of a digital archive.
Founded in 1927. The Estonian Folklore Archive is the central archive of folklore in Estonia, the task of which is to capture, preserve and make available what is as diverse as possible of the phenomena of non-institutional spiritual culture.
The Estonian Cultural History Archive was founded in 1929. The Estonian Cultural History Archive is Estonia's central archive collecting and organizing literary and cultural history materials (manuscripts, letters, documents, biographies, memoirs, diaries, photographs, works of art, sound recordings).
The Archival Library was founded in 1909. The task is to collect, preserve and make available to researchers all publications in Estonian, regardless of their place of publication; Publications on Estonia and the Baltics; printed materials about the Finno-Ugric peoples.