Jaanika Anderson

University of Tartu · University of Tartu Museum

Two ancient Egyptian child mummies at the University of Tartu Art Museum (Estonia) were, according to museum records, brought to Estonia by the young Baltic-German scholar Otto Friedrich von Richter, who had travelled in Egypt during the early 19th century. Although some studies of the mummies were conducted, a thorough investigation has never been...

The article studies the ideas and practices involved in implementing an art collection in university studies, focusing on a plaster cast collection. The history of museums began in Estonia with the reopening of the University of Tartu (1802) and, since then, collections have played an important role in teaching. This article concentrates on the fea...

Nowadays, a large part of the objects related to teaching and research acquired for the University of Tartu in the past couple of centuries are located in the museums of the university. The University of Tartu Museum also preserves the plaster casts ordered in 1805 for decorating the University of Tartu Library. Exhibiting sculptures at the library...

This dissertation focuses on one area of the University of Tartu Art Museum, namely the cast collections, their formation, development and use in the pedagogical and scientific spheres in the 19th century. Although from the historical perspective, the cast collection was established simultaneously with the university art museum’s collection of orig...

In his 1959 paper “On linguistic aspects of translation,” Roman Jakobson distinguished between interlingual, intralingual, and intersemiotic translation. As Gideon Toury (1986, Translation: A cultural-semiotic perspective. In Thomas A. Sebeok (ed.), Encyclopedic dictionary of semiotics, vol. 2, 1111–1124. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter) pointed out, suc...

The story of the mummies of the University of Tartu Art Museum (Estonia) began in 1819 when the Baltic-German district magistrate Otto Magnus von Richter donated his son's collection of Egyptian antiquities to the University of Tartu. The article focuses on the respectful exhibiting of human and animal mummies. With the new exhibition , a context w...

The article is inspired by the fascinating findings and conservationwork done on the Pompeian style murals in Estonian manor housesduring the last few decades. The focus is on the murals in the manorhouses of Voltveti, Suure-Kõpu and Vana-Võidu – all of whichbelonged to different members of the von Stryk family of BalticGermans. The article focuses...