After a two-year break, the museum, renovated for over a million euros, will open its doors in two weeks with three exhibitions of Evald Okas’ work and the house itself.
Doors open at noon on July 21. However, at ten o’clock in the morning of July 4, bitter work was still going on in the museum, which was built as a tavern building in the middle of the 19th century and renovated for over a million euros. Grandchildren of Evald Okas and members of the NGO named following him, sisters Mara Ljutjuk and Üla Koppel sat at a long heavy wooden table in the museum’s kitchen and answered the question “What is going on at the moment?” as if from one mouth: “All!”
Ljutjuk and Koppel have been on site for several weeks now, the days start at seven in the morning and stretch past midnight into the next morning. “The main work has been completed, but one or two things still need to be done,” said Koppel.
Modest “one-on-one” means very fast times. “Construction completion is running in parallel, we are curating three exhibitions, building gates,” said Ljutjuk. “Yesterday I threw up some rubbish from the yard.” The plank that bounded the yard had really disappeared and the posts had been taken up and the places for the new posts had already been marked. “Today I am specifically working on the garden,” said Ljutjuk. “Goal posts, fence flags and stuff.”
Although the repair started already two years ago with the rescue operation of the foundation, the more serious work started last summer. “Exactly a year ago,” Ljutjuk noted. At the time, he might not quite imagine what lay ahead. “It was hard to understand what he is, but… All the joys of the old house,” said Ljutjuk. “An extremely complex object,” Koppel said. “He is like an onion: you start to open it and peel it like an onion. I don’t know what will come out of it,” said Ljutjuk. For now, the formerly rickety house is supported with steel and glulam beams and should last for centuries. “We have built a new fortress,” remarked Ljutjuk half-jokingly.
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2024-07-06 05:00:58
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