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Ateneum
Finland's main art museum is in a lovely neoclassical building opposite Helsinki's railway station, with Finnish paintings of the Golden Age by Akseli Gallen-Kallela and Albert Edelfelt, as well as Van Gogh and Cézanne.
History of the museum
The Ateneum was built in 1887 as the home of the Finnish Art Society, an art school and a museum in one. Finnish artists in the 1890s, such as Akseli Gallen-Kallela, found their national style in the Finnish folk epic, the Kalevala, and these paintings now hang here. The museum is part of the Finnish National Gallery.
Top pieces
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The Aino Myth (triptych) Akseli Gallen-Kallela, 1891
