In February, a new exhibit was added to the Estonian National Museum’s thematic exhibition “Cities Within the City”: the virtual city “Tartu.” Created on the Roblox platform, “Tartu” is an initiative developed by lower secondary school students and has been evolving for several years. The virtual environment features the city centre and its key buildings, public transport routes, and various workplaces — all reflecting young people’s own understanding of what makes a city functional and meaningful.

On 9 March, the Network of Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries hosted the workshop “Frictions of the Digital: Rethinking Innovation and Engagement in the GLAM Sector,”  hosted a seminar on digital practices in museums as part of the DHNB 2026 conference. The event, titled “Frictions of the Digital: Rethinking Innovation and Engagement in the GLAM Sector,” focused on the complexities of digital transformation in museums and cultural heritage institutions. Participants discussed how museums navigate the dynamic and often tension-filled relationship between heritage preservation, cultural values, rapidly evolving digital technologies, participatory practices, and limited resources. The workshop also addressed playful and game‑based solutions, examining how such approaches can foster experimentation, visitor engagement, and new forms of interaction in the GLAM sector.

The HUM data lab invites participants to the Estonian Literary Museum on 17–19 April 2026 for the cultural data hackathon “From Archive to Insight: Activating Cultural Data”, held as part of the development of the Estonian Research and Cultural Data Infrastructure (ETKAD).

A new website for the European Common Data Space for Cultural Heritage has been launched under the leadership of Europeana. Its goal is to bring together state‑of‑the‑art infrastructure, an active community, and a diverse set of products, frameworks, and tools. This creates improved opportunities for cultural heritage institutions to share their digital collections openly and reliably, while increasing the visibility of these collections across Europe.