Ateneum Museum in Finland, Helsinki resort
Rating: 7,8/10 (384 votes)  The Ateneum Museum is the main art museum of Finland, located in Helsinki, on the Rautatientori city square, not far from the city's Central Station. This museum houses the largest collection of works of art in Finland, which includes more than twenty thousand exhibits, namely paintings, graphic works, sketches and drawings, sculptures created in the period from the 1750s to the 1950s. e. Initially, the building of the current museum housed the Academy of Arts, then the University of Art and Design Helsinki. Now the Ateneum Museum is part of the Finnish National Gallery, along with the Kiasma complexes and the Art Museum. Sinebryukhova. The museum building was designed and built by the architect Karl Huyer in 1887. The decorative work was carried out by the famous Finnish sculptor Karl Sjostrand. Above the central entrance to the museum, there are busts of famous figures of the classical trend in art - Raphael, Donato Bramante, Phidias. The last floor of the building ends with a pediment resting on four caryatids, symbolizing the four types of art - music, painting, architecture and sculpture. The pediment is also adorned with a carved inscription in Latin"With consent and small states grow", recalling the contradictions that existed between the founders of the Athenaeum Museum. For the first time, an exhibition at the Athenaeum Museum was opened on October 13, 1888, the day that today is celebrated as the museum's birthday. The collection of the museum began to form under Nicholas II, who donated 18 paintings to the Society of Finnish Artists. Initially, the Ateneum housed the collections of the Art Society of Finland, an art school operated, which later transformed into the Academy of Arts. It also housed the collections of the Finnish Art Industry Society, and an art-industrial educational institution, which eventually became the Art-Industrial Institute. Since the beginning of 2013, all the works of art that are kept in the Ateneum Museum can be viewed on the website Google Art Project. The permanent exhibition is located on the third floor of the museum building. Today this exhibition features paintings by artists F. Goya, E. Degas, M. Chagall, P. Cezanne, V. van Gogh. Works by Russian artists - Shishkin, Repin, Levitan, Polenov and others - also take a worthy place in the collection. Most of the collection is still occupied by Finnish artists - A. Edelfelt, A. Gallen-Kallel, H. Simberg, P. Halonen. Temporary changeable exhibitions are located on the first and second floors.        Halonen. Temporary changeable exhibitions are located on the first and second floors. Halonen. Temporary changeable exhibitions are located on the first and second floors.We also recommend reading Village Museum”Monastic yard” in Austria, Burgenland resort Topic: Ateneum Museum in Finland, Helsinki resort. |
