| In September 2003 The Monastic Museum of Denmark was as a part of The Danish Lake District Ecomuseum invited to participate in the
project "Preparing Estonian Regions for Specific Structural Fund Actions and Strategic Policy Goals". The project was a collaboration between Harju
County in Northern Estonia and Aarhus County in Jutland, Denmark, with the purpose to prepare Estonia’s enrolment in the EU. Therefore the project was
partly financed by the EU.
On September 23th 2003 a delegation from Harju visited Denmark in order to have a closer look at some specific organisations, among others The Monastic
Museum and The Danish Lake District Ecomuseum. In the delegation Veljo Männister. He is an engineer-consultant in Padise Commune, that holds one of
the best preserved Cistercian monasteries from the Middle Ages in Europe.
There was a possibility for further collaboration on the development of tourist attractions with a cultural theme and curator Bo Gregersen was therefore
visited to join a Danish delegation, that left for Estonia on October 29th 2003.
On the same day The Monastic Museum and The Dansish Lake District was visited by Merike Toomas, the director of the local museum for Tartur, in who’s
area of work Estonia’s other ruin of a Cistercian monastery for men is situated. She got a guide tour in the ruins at The Monastic Museum and was informed
of The Ecomuseum, and after that Anders Jørgensen gave here a guided tour in the Lake District.
During the visit in Estonia, on the 30th of October, curator Bo Gregersen paid a visit to the Monastery Padise, and there with Veljo Männister,
Uuve Sauga (Estonian consultant), Mart Keskküla (architect) and the local guide discussed the possibility for making a visitors centre at Padise. Furthermore
the possibilities in starting a Ecomuseum in collaboration with other attractions in the region was discussed.
The day after these ideas were presented in Tallin for the Harju County and it was decided to move on with the plans for starting a visitors centre
at Padise, as soon as the ruins of the monastery are made secure for larger numbers of visitors
Curator at The Monastic Museum of Denmark Bo Gregersen, December 2003.
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