ATENEUM - MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
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Superb art museum, rich collection both Finnish and international. Temporary exhibitions always well highlighted.
This sumptuous neo-Renaissance building opened its doors in 1888. It housed both the art collections of the emerging Finnish nation and studios for contemporary artists of the day, not to mention an art school of national importance. While the permanent collections are well worth a visit, the temporary exhibitions are always remarkable.
On the second floor , the museum presents the work of major Finnish painters of the 19th and early 20thcenturies , such as Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Helena Schjerfbeck and Pekka Halonen. Gallen-Kallela was long considered the leading painter of his generation. Among his many works on show, those inspired by the Kalevala include Lemminkäinen's Mother and Ilmarinen forges the Sampo. Albert Edelfelt is present with a series of paintings inspired by Paris and portraits. His painting Christ and Magdalene, executed in the park of the Haikko manor house, is one of the most significant of national Romanticism. Works also by Gauguin, Cézanne, Chagall, Dufy and Munch, whose influence on Nordic Expressionism was decisive. The Ateneum was the first museum in the world to purchase a Van Gogh, Rue d'Auvers-sur-Oise, which can still be admired today.
On the second floor , a smaller collection covers some of the major trends in Finnish and international modern and post-modern painting (including David Hockney, Andy Warhol and Yves Klein).
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Prix un peu élevé, mais c'est une référence pour l'art finnois.