Kirsti Jõesalu

Kirsti Jõesalu is an ethnologist and memory scholar working at the University of Tartu. She is interested in the relationship between public and private remembering. She has studied the memory of late socialism in life stories, novels, documentaries and museums as well as heritagization of the revolutionary 1980s and 1990s in museums. Her research current examines the role of museums in contemporary Baltic societies in navigating the multiplicity of competing perceptions of the 20th-century past (especially the communist past) across changing political and socio-economic contexts (https://mnemus.ut.ee). Kirsti was responsible for the exhibition interventions in the concluding MNEMUS project. She is serving as a member of the council of Estonian National Museum and research council of Estonian Open Air Museum. 

Photo: Johanna Roos