Art museum

EMMA - Espoo Museum of Modern Art's collection and exhibition programme profiles Finnish and international modernism, contemporary art and design.

Ceramic studio at Suomenlinna fortress island.

The beautiful surroundings and unique architecture of the Gallen-Kallela Museum provide a fine setting for a museum visit. Designed and built by the artist Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865-1931), the castle-like Tarvaspää studio and residence was opened to the public in 1961 as the Gallen-Kallela Museum. The museum's temporary exhibitions present the art and life of Gallen-Kallela and his contemporaries and present-day works of contemporary art. The museum provides also a wide range of activities and events and serves as a centre for information on Akseli Gallen-Kallela.

Museum shop and café-restaurant.

Vuotalo provides a wide range of cultural events, changing exhibitions in the gallery, and art education activities intended for children, young people, day care centres and schools.

The programme features films, matinees and a variety of concerts for both children and adults.

In the building also Vuosaari library and Pokkari café.

Villa Gyllenberg houses one of the finest private museums in Finland. Villa Gyllenberg is the former home of the Gyllenberg family. It was built in 1938 and extended in 1955. The art museum is specialised in Finnish art from the period 1700-1970 and in early foreign art.

Vapaan taiteen tila (Spece for free art) is a forum for students of the University of the Arts to organize exhibitions, concerts, performances and other events. The space is located at Katri Valan Puisto - park's shelter in the area of Sörnäinen.

Located in a former private home, the Kirpilä Art Collection is a unique art museum that presents a passionate art lover's collection and provides a glimpse of the life of well-to-do Helsinkians in the second half of the twentieth century.

The museum is housed in the apartment that was the home of the rheumatologist Juhani Kirpilä (1931-1988) and his partner, the antiques dealer Karl (Kalle) Rosenqvist, between 1979 and 1988. It covers nearly 350 square metres on the top floor of a functionalist house in the district of Töölö.

Kehystämö Kamiter-Ars has been framing pictures and paintings in the same neighbourhood for over 30 years.

Suomenlinna sea fortress is a Unesco World Heritage Site located on the coast of Helsinki, and also a suburb of Helsinki with around 800 residents.

The Finnish Museum of Photography is a special museum devoted to the art and practice of photography.