Helios Hall


This novel gallery has come up with a way around the difficulty of borrowing great paintings from their home galleries: simply project images of masterpieces onto the walls, along with appropriate musical accompaniment. It does utilize its premises – Tallinn's oldest cinema – to good effect, using most available space to bring the pieces to life in great detail and depth of colour.


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