Johannes and Joseph Aavik House Museum

Museum address:

Vallimaa 7, Kuressaare, Saaremaa, Estonia

Entrance 1 euro

Accessibility information:

Wheelchair access to the garden

Program

Open from 18.00-23.00

Night at the Aavikute House Museum "There is a NIMEbook in the Night"

The house museum of the two great Saarlanders, the outstanding linguist Johannes Aavik (1880 - 1973) and the beloved music pedagogue Joosep Aavik (1899 - 1989), in the heart of Kuressaare, is open to the public.

18.00 - 19.00 Who were Siia, Kutt, Seeni, Ida? Kristiina Maripuu from OÜ Keelemeel invites you to a discussion about the oldest first names of the islanders.

19.00 - 20.00 What is special about Saaremaa surnames? When were surnames given in Saaremaa? How many were given in Saaremaa? And of course, let's draw a mystery from the Aavik surname tree. Tiina Laansalu and Fred Puss from the EKI invite us to a discussion on Saaremaa surnames.

You can browse through name books, articles by Johannes Aavik, Oskar Kallas and others about Estonian names, play name games, create a character for a name and give the character a name.

Kristiina Maripuu graduated in Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics from the University of Tartu. Although her bachelor thesis focused on getThe meaning and functions of the verb "-" in the North Estonian written language of the 16th-19th centuries, was the decisive factor in the choice of the field of study for the research paper "The first names of Tagavere villagers and the reasons for their choice", which was done in the 12th grade within the framework of the Republican Mother Tongue Olympiad. Kristiina Maripuu is the managing director of OÜ Keelemeel, the leader of the social media community Saarekeel and a trainer for adults.

Tiina Laansalu is Head of the Department of Linguistic History, Dialects and Finno-Ugric Languages at the Estonian Language Institute. In 2020, he defended his PhD thesis on place names. Tiina Laansalu is also the deputy chair of the Emakeele Selts and a member of national nomenclature committees (place-name council, personal name committee).

Fred Puss is a senior lexicographer at the Institute of the Estonian Language, a doctoral student at the University of Tartu and the director of the Estonian Centre for Personal History. He has researched Estonian genealogy, place names, personal names and place names. Fred Puss is an honorary member of the Estonian Genealogy Society and a historian-consultant for the ETV series "Your New Relative".

Both Tiina Laansalu and Fred Puss are among the authors of the "Estonian Place Names Book" and the "Estonian Family Names Book". Together with the collective, they were awarded the Ministry of Education and Research's "Language Achievement of the Year 2016" prize for their local name book. The "Estonian Family Name Book" is currently in preparation.

The Aavikute House Museum is open during the summer season (1 June - 31 August) Fri-Fri 12.00-17.00.

For more information:
https://aavikud.samu.ee/
https://www.facebook.com/aavikutemaja
https://www.instagram.com/aavikutemaja/
aavikud@samu.ee

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