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How many floors does Tartu College have? What was the first party that took place in Tartu College Hall in 1970? How many people have helped to organise VEMU collections in the past 10 years? These are some examples of questions in the online quiz series that VEMU is organizing in honour of Tartu College’s 50th Anniversary.

The massive spread of COVID-19 has changed all of our everyday lives and activities. Many of us have been forced to stay away from our normal workspaces to isolate ourselves at home and work remotely. Events have been cancelled or postponed. Opportunities to move about have become limited, if not impossible.

On April 8, VEMU organised together with the Finnish Studies Programme at the University of Toronto and the Swedish Womens Educational Association International Toronto, an online lecture about the Swedish speaking minority in Estonia.

We present you the Spring edition of the Baltic Heritage Network quarterly newsletter. In these pages you will find information about our past and future events, new publications, and what is happening across the globe within the diaspora research and archive communities.

From the cover inwards, the March 2020 issue of the Canberra Historical Journal features Ann Tündern-Smith’s article about 60 Baltic women who arrived in the then small capital city of Australia in December 1947.

How has the coronavirus epidemic affected your life? The Estonian National Museum is collecting stories and photos about how the spread of this virus and the national emergency situation has impacted and reshaped our everyday lives, as well as how we have adjusted to this new way of life.

We invite you to keep an emergency situation diary

The pandemic closed the state borders and seized the flights but it did not cancel our passion to travel. The Lithuanian Community in France came up with an idea to visit and explore significant Lithuanian historical and cultural objects in Paris virtually.

Tartu College Film Society has been showing different films during winter Sundays. Their program has included both documentaries and feature films.

Although the National Archives as an institution is young, the establishment of the national archives system started already at the beginning of the Republic of Estonia. National Archives was born directly after the end of Estonian War of Independence on 3 March 1920 when the Archives Committee’s first discussions were held at the library of the University of Tartu to discuss the future of the national written heritage and the formation of our own state’s archives.