ESTONIA PARTICIPATES IN A SERIES OF EVENTS ’CHILDREN OF THE REVOLUTION 1989-2009’

12.06.2009

As part of the events taking place in London this year, Victoria & Albert museum has collected and exhibited one of the largest and most diverse collections of posters from Central and Eastern Europe produced during the final months of the Soviet Bloc and the early days of democracy. Estonian posters will be part of the V&A collection and researchers from the Estonian History Museum have helped the V&A museum with the comments to all collection items.

Posters played a significant role in the democratic revolutions of 1989. In Central and Eastern Europe, posters broke away from state control and became an outlet for the free expression of political ideas. Pasted onto city walls they claimed symbolic public spaces for the opposition, disseminated news of demonstrations and went on to represent newly formed political parties in free elections. Posters helped to define what revolution looked like.

Estonian History Museum has also put together a special commented poster collection for the website of the European Commission Delegation in the UK: http://www.europe.org.uk/1989/library/index/-/cat_id/15/

Children of the Revolution 1989-2009 is organised by the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, Tate Modern, and Victoria & Albert Museum in collaboration with EUNIC-London and the embassies in London.

More information: http://www.europe.org.uk/1989/