Highly anticipated guided tours at PoCo!
Pop art. Stories accompanying the artworks. Connections and references.
Let’s POP!
Limited number of tickets available – get yours here!
In July 2025, Sõprus will once again open its summer outdoor cinema – this year in the heart of the city, at the main square of the Rotermann Quarter. The open-air cinema, with 150 seats, will host screenings every week from Thursday to Sunday starting at 10 PM. 31 different screenings will take place.
The Summer Cinema offers the audience emotionally charged film nights outdoors, in an open urban space, with quality typical of Sõprus. Several screenings will be accompanied by themed introductions, conversations with exciting guests, and a lively side program with music and special offers at the bar.
The film program, titled “Summer in the City”, is inspired by the cinema’s location and its surroundings: PoCo, the Museum of Architecture, the sea, bars, restaurants, the modern urban space. And everything else the summer in Tallinn has to offer.
As Estonia’s oldest operating independent art-house cinema Sõprus celebrates its 70th anniversary this year, the program includes film classics from each decade of Sõprus’s history, featured under the “Film Classics” category.
The selection also incorporates popular sports films connected to Tallinn’s designation as the European Capital of Sport 2025, labeled under “Tallinn: Sports Capital 2025”. In addition, we’ll also show several documentaries focused on art and architecture in the “Cinema of Art and Architecture” screenings. A significant part of the program is dedicated to local (youth) films set in summer-time Tallinn. These screenings are marked with the hashtag “Great Estonian Cinema”.
We’re taking a playful approach to Saturdays and Hollywood’s hometown, featuring films set largely in Los Angeles on “LA Saturdays”. We’re also experimenting with number magic and will screen Dog Day Afternoon on August 22 – a film that premiered exactly 50 years ago and whose story takes place on that very same date.
More information at www.suvekino.ee
Pause for a moment. Open your eyes, open your heart. Find your way to the Rotermann chimney square. Have dinner. Sip a little wine. Take a moment for yourself or spend time with loved ones. With friends, colleagues. Or meet someone new. Enjoy the buzz of the dinner crowd. Listen to good music. Maybe even try a cocktail.
Bold Town Beats brings summer evenings to life – every Wednesday and Friday.
This week’s lineup:
Wednesday, 23rd July – DJ Erkin Antov
Friday, 25th July – DJ L.Eazy
For the best experience, reserve a table on the terrace in advance!
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Rotermann. The Bold Town of Tallinn.
You are invited to Eliise Maar Jewellery’s exclusive pop-up event at restaurant Gobi.
On site, you will have the opportunity to try on, purchase, and see both new and classic designs.
In Rotermann, the National Geographic exhibition “Sport Stories” is now open, showcasing photographs of various sports and athletes from around the world, captured over more than a century.
The exhibition features 22 selected photos, the oldest taken in 1909 and the most recent in 2016. Represented are different team and individual sports as well as extreme sports, including wrestling, hockey, diving, mountaineering, and skateboarding. Local visitors will also be delighted to see a photo of finger wrestling taken by Estonian noblewoman and photography enthusiast Irina Ungern-Sternberg.
The exhibition is displayed on the Hobujaama Street side of the Rotermann Quarter and will remain up until the end of August.
Welcome to a journey into a dreamlike world, where colors, symbols, and emotions intertwine, and each painting is like a moment after waking—a delicate echo of a dream captured on canvas.
Lili Lind is an artist and tattooist whose creative journey has spanned her entire life. For the past 14 years, she has worked as a professional tattoo artist, but her deeper connection to art and self-expression dates back to early childhood.
Art is both her passion and her profession—a way to make sense of the world and her place in it. For Lili, painting is a meditative process—a moment where time stops and thoughts become clear. It is this inner stillness and freedom that are reflected in her paintings.
IG: lililindartgallery
The Summer Library is open again for the third year in a row at the greenhouse on the main square!
Visitors will find books in Estonian, Finnish, and English on topics such as cooking, history, architecture, and sports. There’s also fiction and children’s books in the mix.
Enjoy reading on one of the Rotermann café terraces, in the seating area, or take a new book home with you – no need to return it!
The Summer Library is stocked with books by the Storage Library of the National Library of Estonia.
This summer marks the 45th anniversary of Tallinn Olympic Regatta. The ambition to host a major sailing competition became a reality in the 1970s when Tallinn was selected as a co-host of the Olympic Games, initiating preparations for the regatta. In addition to sailing, the event was accompanied by large-scale urban planning and development, making the decade particularly significant in the history of local architecture. The Olympic urban plans aimed to modernise the city rapidly.
Tallinn changed considerably in preparation for the Olympic Regatta. The plan included repairing the architectural scars left by the destruction of World War II and filling vacant spaces with new buildings. Parts of Tallinn’s coastline were freed from industrial use, engineering systems were renewed and several parts of the capital were given a refreshed appearance. In addition to urban planning, attention was also paid to design – evident in the city, everyday items and poster art alike.
Several well-known buildings were completed for the regatta, including the Olympic Yachting Centre, TV Tower, Hotel Olümpia and the new airport terminal. Along with the Olympic sites, new residential buildings, offices, healthcare facilities and cultural venues were constructed – designed by Estonian architects, interior architects and engineers. Despite the conditions of Soviet occupation, local initiatives – led by Estonians – sought to improve the living environment in the momentum of the regatta. The summer of 1980 felt to many like a fleeting moment of freedom, but the Iron Curtain would remain closed for many more years.
In all, more than 120 architectural projects were planned as part of the Olympic urbanism. Some were completed, others were built later, while some remained merely ideas. The exhibition presents this ambitious phase in Tallinn’s development.
The exhibition is open at the Estonian Museum of Architecture and in the courtyard of the Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design from 30 April to 28 September 2025.
