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STUDIO AALTO

Alvar Aallon ateljee

“Architecture is an art that cannot be created in an office-like environment,” Alvar Aalto once said. In 1955-56, he designed a studio in Munkkiniemi, not far from his home, creating an inspirational environment for his team of architects. Alvar Aalto managed his architectural firm until his passing in 1976, after which the office continued to operate […]

Alisgården

Alisgården

Alisgården is a homestead museum, showing how people lived at the end of the 19th century. The museum can be found in Lapinkylä by road 113, which leads to Evitskog. The main building at Alisgården is a former sergeant’s residence originating in Evitskog. It was moved to its current location in the 1950’s, along with a […]

ALIKARTANO MANOR

Alikartano

The Alikartano Manor, also known as the Frugård estate, became property of the Nordenskiöld family at the beginning of the 18th century.  The manor is known for being the childhood home of the explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, who was the first to sail along the Northern Sea Route. The symmetrical style of the Alikartano Manor’s garden […]

THE BIRTHPLACE OF ALEKSIS KIVI

Aeksis Kiven syntymakoti

Follow the Finnish national author to the rural idyll of Palojoki village! Aleksis Kivi was born the fourth child to tailor Erik Stenvall and his wife Annastiina on 10 October 1834. The birthplace of the author is in Palojoki in Nurmijärvi, in the settings of The Seven Brothers and The Cobblers on the Heath. Aleksis left […]

ALEKSIS KIVI MEMORIAL COTTAGE

Aleksis Kiven kuolinmökki

The Syvälahti croft in Tuusula is known as the place where writer Aleksis Kivi spent the last ten months of his life. The author’s brother, tailor Albert Stenvall, had rented the cabin for his family a few years earlier. Albert and his wife Karoliina had four children, but they set out to the world at […]

ALBERT EDELFELT STUDIO MUSEUM

ALBERT EDELFELTIN ATELJEEMUSEO

In 1879, Albert Edelfelt’s mother Alexandra Edelfelt rented a summer villa by the sea, on Haikko Manor’s land. This became the artist’s summer home, where he spent a total of 26 summers. Edelfelt loved the Porvoo archipelago and its residents, finding them an inexhaustible source of inspiration. To make working easier, he had a studio […]

AINOLA – THE HOME OF AINO AND JEAN SIBELIUS

AINOLA – AINO JA JEAN SIBELIUKSEN KOTI

In the idyllic landscape of Lake Tuusula is the home of Aino and Jean Sibelius, where several masterpieces of the composer were born. In 1904, the couple moved to the house designed by Lars Sonck. The authentic home museum presents to the visitor Jean Sibelius the composer and Aino Sibelius as the lynchpin of the […]

Ahola

Ahola

The move of author Juhani Aho and painter Venny Soldan-Brofeldt to the villa they named Ahola in 1897 was the beginning of the community of artists of Lake Tuusula. The couple’s long-term home exhibits the lifetime work of these two artists. The Finnish national author Juhani Aho turns out to have been a vigorous outdoor man […]

Ahjonsuu General Store Museum

Ahjonsuun kauppamuseo

The museum consists of an original shop interior (the new store) from the 1960s, and a storage room (the old store), which also retains the original interior. The shop building additionally houses the owner’s family apartment, comprising of 4 rooms and a kitchen. There are two storage buildings adjacent to the main building. Ahjonsuu General […]