The first free Museum Sunday of 2023 will take place this Sunday, 8 January. The initiative will be joined by the Nõmme Museum, located in the former station building.
Tallinn's district governments have set up a total of 79 collection points across the city where old Christmas trees can be given away for free. Collected Christmas trees are not dumped in landfills, but are reused for district heating in the city's houses or to generate electricity.
The Tallinn Municipal Property Board this week launched a public procurement for the purchase of ten portable generators to ensure the continuity of Tallinn's buildings in the event of a permanent power outage. The deadline for submission of tenders is 20 January at 10am.
On 10 March, the photo exhibition "I Choose Life", depicting Ukrainians who fled to Estonia from the war and their stories, will open on Vabaduse Square. It is a social and cultural project created by Ukrainian war refugee photographers.
In 2023, the Ministry of Culture's series of theme years will reach the field of physical activity. Exercise has a direct link to our health and well-being, so Tallinn invites its residents to take part in monthly sporting events and to make use of health trails, sports fields and more.
Today Tallinn sent an aid consignment to Ukraine. Two Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 319 ambulances with equipment belonging to Tallinn Ambulance, as well as medical equipment and pharmacy goods from East Tallinn Central Hospital will be handed over to the city of Lviv.
By order of the Tallinn City Government, from 1 February the names of the child protection services of the district social welfare departments will be changed to child welfare services, and child protection specialists will become child welfare specialists.
The Museum Sundays programme, which attracted nearly 60 000 visitors last year, will continue this year, but from February it will be necessary to buy a zero ticket to visit the branches of Tallinn City Museum.
The Tallinn City Government has submitted to the Tallinn City Council a draft ordinance that amends the procedures for awarding grants to Tallinn's private recreational schools, expanding the range of grant recipients and adding an additional possibility to use the grant.