For the last three centuries, museums -as an architectural typology- have transitioned from being an important node in the city to becoming an icon of identity for a whole culture. Museums have transformed into a civic landmark in a local and international scale.

© Takuji Shimmura

For the last three centuries, museums -as an architectural typology- have transitioned from being an important node in the city to becoming an icon of identity for a whole culture. Museums have transformed into a civic landmark in a local and international scale.This month we highlight the Estonian National Museum which not only proposes a strategy for meeting spaces and exhibition, but also stands as a cultural, historic and territorial recognition of the country. Placed as an extension of the ruins of an old aeronautical field used during the Soviet occupation, the museum contrasts it?s historic context with a new building that rises as the projection to a new reality and a national future.Estonian National Museum / DGT ArchitectsHistoric Location.The proposal is located in a former aeronautical Soviet field with the purpose to recover this unoccupied space and expose it as part of the national memory. Considering the features that the territory offers, an extension of the field is proposed taking advantage of it?s scale, achieving a space that hosts several cultural activities and a new use for the territory that contrasts with the existing. All this with the purpose of projectin...