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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.

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.

From 1 February 2023, Tallinn will raise the minimum wage for creative staff in performing arts institutions, museum staff with scientific and pedagogical aims and librarians from €1,400 to €1,600 per month, or 14.3%.

Yesterday, 30 January, the City of Tallinn, in cooperation with the Tallinn Literary Centre and the Estonian Writers' Union, awarded the Tammsaare Novel Prize for the fifth time at the Town Hall. The Tammsaare Novel Prize was awarded to Tõnu Õnnepalu.

The international documentary film festival DocPoint Tallinn has awarded Erik Põllumaa with the Documentary Award for for young filmmakers.

On Sunday, 5 February, the Estonian Choral Association announced the winners of the annual awards for choral and wind music at the Estonia Concert Hall. The Supporter of the Year 2022 award was presented to the City of Tallinn as last year, as the city provided substantial support for organizing the 1st Tallinn Youth Choirs Festival, supporting the activities of the Finnish Choral Association and other choir concert projects.

Since last Sunday, pre-registration is required to visit Tallinn City Museum branches on Museum Sundays to ensure a smooth museum experience for visitors. On the first Sunday in February, a total of 3363 people visited the museum, of whom 2560 had previously purchased a free ticket.

On Friday, 10 March at 4 pm, the photo exhibition "I choose life" will open on Freedom Square, depicting Ukrainians who fled to Estonia from the war and their stories. The exhibition will be open until 25 March.

Residents’ satisfaction with the selection of cultural events taking place in Tallinn has returned to a level as high as it was before Covid-19 but the opportunities to visit these events as much as wanted is in a downward trend. The most popular cultural events organised by the city are Tallinn Old Town Days and Tallinn Maritime Days.

During this year’s first round of non-profit music projects, 54 projects were submitted and the chosen projects received support from the city in the sum of 152,650 euros. In total, the expert commission decided to support 27 events.