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Things to do in Helsinki, Uusimaa: The Best Art Museums
Sitting on the edge of the Baltic, the modern, cosmopolitan city of Helsinki is the World Design Capital for 2012. The beauty of the surrounding nature blends seamlessly with high-tech achievements and contemporary trends. Walking tours of the city center show layers of history, while modern architecture and cutting-edge style stake the city's claim to the future. Choose Helsinki during its endless summer days or get adventurous on crisp, snowy winter nights.
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1. Alvar Aalto's studio
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 27 reviews
Reviewed By ZachF247
I toured this before seeing Aalto's house, and I think that was a good order to see them in. There is a 30 minute tour, and then you are free to wander the studio for 30 minutes and take as many pictures as you like. Still used by the Aalto foundation, but you can see all the main rooms and get a good idea of Aalto's work.
2. Taidekoti Kirpila
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5.0 based on 9 reviews
3. Sinebrychoff Art Museum
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4.5 based on 210 reviews
The collections of the Sinebrychoff Art Museum include some of the most valuable and internationally important paintings by old European masters to be found in Finland. The collections have mainly been made up of donations. The unique house museum of Paul and Fanny Sinebrychoff, a permanent exhibition on the 2nd floor makes up the core of the museum. The art collection of the Sinebrychoffs, including furniture and other artefacts was left to the Finnish government as a bequest in 1921.
Reviewed By MikaelF413 - Vantaa, Finland
This art museum is located on Bulevardi in a historic house from 1842. It has top art on display in the brewery owner's home. The first floor with an entrance fee has changing exhibitions. This time, there was an exhibition called Tiepolo − Venice in the North. The second floor has a free entrance. It houses a unique home museum of Paul and Fanny Sinebrychoff. Here you can find more paintings in the stunning interior.
4. Ateneum
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4.5 based on 1,095 reviews
Reviewed By MikaelF413 - Vantaa, Finland
Before the pandemic lockdown, we managed to see this stunning exhibition. Magnus Enckell (1870–1925) was a known Finnish symbolist painter. He was one of the most significant names during the golden age of Finnish art in 1880-1910. Magnus Enckell is best known for painting naked men and boys. Another very known painter Hugo Simberg was his good friend. Together they decorated the interior of Tampere Cathedral in 1904-1906.
5. Didrichsen Art Museum
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4.5 based on 62 reviews
Reviewed By lmsk2014 - Helsinki, Finland
A fantastic small art museum by the sea. It is easy to fall in love with the Didrichsen art museum; they host excellent, interesting exhibitions, the museum is a former private home, a villa in a clean modernist style and with an incredible view. There is also a small, beautiful statue park - and you can even access the private peer of the museum (or arrive by boat, if you wish). In other words, there is something to enjoy for everyone. There is a small museum shop from where you can also buy coffee, tea and refreshments that you can enjoy at the shop, or take out to the lovely veranda with a sea view. In the area there are various other museums and attractions so you can make it a full day of culture by the sea.
6. Villa Gyllenberg
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4.5 based on 20 reviews
Reviewed By MikaelF413 - Vantaa, Finland
Villa Gyllenberg is an art museum in the beautiful and natural surroundings of Kuusisaari Island. It consists of the Gyllenberg family home and the adjoining gallery building. The ambient old villa was built in the middle of the 1900s by a successful banker Ane Gyllenberg and his wife Signe, who were eager art collectors. The house is full of artworks made by famous artists, mostly Finnish. Exhibitions on specific themes are held in the adjoining gallery. On our visit, there was an exhibition called The Path to Hidden Knowledge. The exhibition consisted of works by well-known Finnish artists like Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Hugo Simberg, Helene Schjerfbeck, and Magnus Enckell. The museum has limited opening hours: 12-18 on Wednesdays, Saturdays, and Sundays.
7. The Lauri and Lasse Reitz Foundation Museum
8. Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma
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4.0 based on 1,078 reviews
Kiasma is a home of contemporary art where everyone is welcome. Kiasma breaks the boundaries of traditional art museums and follows the latest trends in visual culture. The collections include Finnish and foreign art from the 1970s onwards. The museum is a part of the Finnish National Gallery. Kiasma building was designed by the American architect Steven Holl and opened to the public in 1998. At Kiasma there's also a museum shop and café.
Reviewed By HelsinkiFinnish
By Reijo Härkönen Seppo Fränti is well-known art lover and collector in Finland. If you visited earlier his home, moving there was a little difficult because heap of paintings, in kitchen, bedroom, hall, living room, toilet. But 2017 he decided to donate all to Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki. Mad Love exhibition will be open now until January 2021. His collection was nearly 650 works, of them 250 paintings. The donation comprises works by 90 artists, mostly young ones. Mad Love exhibition will the main art happening this year in Helsinki. Juha-Heikki Tihinen says in the exhibition book “Hullu rakkaus” (“Mad Love”) that Fränti’s collection is fascinating because it presents a complication of the art he has chosen according to his preferences and experienced as being significant. Photos by National Gallery; Jussi Goman: Seppo; Seppo’s home earlier; Henry Wuorela-Stenberg: Painting; Robin Lindqvist: 70 Shades of Green
9. Amos Anderson Art Museum
10. Design Museum
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 597 reviews
Reviewed By 227ianc - London, United Kingdom
The Design Museum in Helsinki is housed in an 1895 building which, until 1975, was Helsinki's first co-educational school. Plans are afoot for a new museum of architecture and design as the Museum has outgrown the current building. The building is a slight walk from the centre, but worth it if you are interested in design. The permanent exhibition focusses on Finnish designers such as Alvar Aalto or designers whose aethetic have synergies with Finnish design philosophy for clean lines and simplicity. Companies like Nokia of course gain a mention. There was a fascinating special exhibition on the designers Aamu Song and Johan Olin plus, in keeping with the times, an exhibition of designers responding to environmental issues to do with the seas and oceans. There is a small shop and a cafe were we had a couple of re-energising cups of coffee to see us on our way
