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20.07.2020
Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Helsinki Espoo Museum of Modern Art , EMMA - Municipal Art Museum in Espoo in Finland . The museum's exhibition space is the largest for an art museum in Finland and covers 5000 square metres. Espoo Museum of Contemporary Art was founded in 2002 and opened to the public in the newly...
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20.07.2020
Tervasaari, Helsinki Tervasaari is an island before Kruununhaka in Helsinki. Tervasaari is connected to the mainland by a long promenade called Tervasaaarennas. The quay connects to the northern shore on the eastern edge of Helsinki's city centre. The island has, among other things, a...
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19.07.2020
Gallen-Kallela Museum, Helsinki Gallen-Kallela Museum is a studio located in Tarvaspää, Espoo, created by the artist Akseli Gallen-Kallela and built between 1911 and 1913. which now serves as a museum. The building is located on the northern bank of Laayalahti near Turunwail. The museum provides information...
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19.07.2020
Didrichsen Art Museum, Helsinki The Diedrichsen Art Museum is located on Kuusisaari Island in Helsinki in a house designed by Viljo Revelle for Gunnar and Maria-Louise Diedrichsen (born Granfelt). The first part of the Villa Didrichsen building was built as a house in 1958 and the exhibition wing in 1964. The...
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19.07.2020
Villa Gyllenberg, Helsinki Villa Gyllenberg is a private art and home museum owned by the Signe and Anna Gyllenberg Foundation, located in western Helsinki on the southwest shore of Kuusisaari. The address of the museum is 11 Kuusisaarenpolku. The museum's collection stems from the passion of the banker...
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18.07.2020
Helsinki Art Museum Helsinki Art Museum, abbreviated HAM, is an art museum in Helsinki, Finland. It is located in Tennispalatsi in Kamppi. The museum was reopened after reconstruction and rebranding (as HAM) in 2015. The museum is owned and operated by the city of Helsinki. It takes care of the...
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18.07.2020
Mannerheim Museum, Helsinki Mannerheim Museum is located in Helsinki, Finland. It is dedicated to the preservation and exhibition of objects related to the life and time of Carl Gustav Emil Mannerheim, Finnish statesman and military leader. The Mannerheim Museum is located on a hilltop in a prestigious...
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18.07.2020
Kamppi Chapel, Helsinki The chapel in Kamppi, Helsinki, is located on Narinkka Square. It is also known as the Chapel of Silence, as it is intended to calm down and spend a moment of silence in one of the busiest areas of Finland. The Chapel is managed through a partnership between the Helsinki Parish Union...
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17.07.2020
Suomnelinna Toy Museum, Helsinki In Suomenlinna the Toy Museum presents old toys, the oldest of which date back to the early 19th century. The newest toys from the end of the Soviet Union. In a private collection there are hundreds of old dolls, about a hundred historic teddy bears and other toys full of history. The...
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17.07.2020
Helsinki Cathedral Helsinki Cathedral is a Finnish Lutheran cathedral in the diocese of Helsinki, located in the Kruununhaka district in the center of Helsinki, Finland on Senate Square. The church was built in 1830-1852 as a tribute to the Grand Duke of Finland, Tsar Nicholas I in Russia. It was also...
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