HALOSENNIEMI MUSEUM
Through the windows of this castle of a log building, a lovely view opens of an impressive cliff and the waves on the lake. Deeply impressed by the landscape around Tuusula Lake Road, the painter Pekka Halonen saw it a fitting location for his studio home, which was completed in 1902. Pekka Halonen is known […]
THE GALLEN-KALLELA MUSEUM
The atelier home designed by Akseli Gallen-Kallela is a museum exhibiting the artist’s life and work. The changing exhibitions illustrate Akseli Gallen-Kallela’s works through his contemporaries and modern art. Gallen-Kallela designed the Tarvaspää on the Laajalahti coast in Espoo as an atelier home. The national-romantic building has features of medieval castles and Italian renaissance architecture. The […]
STUDIO AALTO
“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 […]
ALBERT EDELFELT STUDIO MUSEUM
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 […]