On Saturday, 17 October, starting at 1.00 pm, the Estonian National Museum will be holding a workshop entitled "From Idea to VR Game World in Three Hours" in room A-403 at the Estonian Academy of Arts. The workshop will be conducted in English and will last 3 hours.

The Estonian National Museum, together with the Institute of Computer Science at the University of Tartu, is organising the "University of Tartu Game Jam 2026". The event will take place from 9 to 11 October, starting on Friday at 6.00 pm and ending on Sunday at 8.00 pm at the Delta Centre (Narva mnt 18, Tartu).

Over three days, 120 young participants work in teams to experiment with ideas, learn about game development, and create a game from start to finish. The Game Jam brings together people with different skills and backgrounds – programmers, artists, game designers, and anyone interested in making games.

There is only one rule: every game must make use of digitised cultural heritage!

On Sunday, 11 October, game presentations begin at 18:30, followed by the award ceremony at 20:00. Both can also be watched online.

Young people aged up to 30 working in the creative sector will come together for an intensive 10-day research and development residency in Pisa. The residency focuses on the question of how to get to know one’s audience without reducing them to mere numbers.

The first meeting of the autumn season will already take place on September 30th! As part of the opening meeting, Galina Zaitseva, Education Curator at the Estonian History Museum, and Edith Eskor, Archive Educator at the National Archives, will present their master's theses related to digital heritage.

From 17–19 April, the HUM Data Lab organized a Cultural Data Hackathon at the Estonian Literary Museum in Tartu, bringing together students, researchers, developers, and cultural heritage enthusiasts. Over the course of three days, participants explored new ways of applying data in a creative and user-friendly way within the collections of memory institutions.

Participants, mentors, jury and organizers of the hackathon