Estonian Aviation Museum (EAM) was founded by a private initiative for public use and it has to meet the founder-assigned tasks and objectives, it has to fulfil a special mission:
- Estonian Aviation Museum must become an innovative technical centre of interest to balance the prevailing tendency in our society toward humanitarian education. It must encourage young people to acquire an engineering education.
- Estonian Aviation Museum must provide technical support for the students of the Estonian Aviation Academy for the training of aviation specialists
- Estonian Aviation Museum must become an attractive free-time centre of interest for young people and an internationally- known knowledge-based tourist attraction. It must advocate aviation and flying.
- Estonian Aviation Museum must perpetuate the history of Estonian aviation and identify Tartu as the birthplace of flying in Estonia. (the 1st demo flight in Estonia took place in 1912 in Tartu). Estonian Aviation Museum fills the vacuum beside the Estonian Maritime Museum and the Estonian Road Museum.
See the 1st page of TLM website: Vision, Development Programme of Aviation Museum, and a development project "3rd Stage of Development of Aviation Museum"