Museums Archives ⋆ Page 14 of 36 ⋆ The Passenger

July 12, 2022December 6, 2022

Kiasma

The Kiasma at Helsinki is a museum for contemporary art. The name refers to the optic chiasma, the point where optic nerves cross in the brain. The architecture is fantastic and the museum conception is a bit crazy and therefore the museum is absolutely fun to visit. It was built in the 1990s after a lot of controversies and after the plans of U.S. architect Steven Holl. He was the first foreigner to design a building in Helsinki after the time of German architect Carl Ludwig Engels.

July 11, 2022December 6, 2022

designmuseo

You like Scandinavian design but have not yet introduced yourself to specific Finnish design? Then have a look at the designmuseo in the design quarter of Helsinki. It was founded already in 1873 and exhibits all kinds of design, including graphic design, industrial design an fashion. And it is absolute fun to spend some time there!

July 11, 2022December 6, 2022

Subterranean

The Amos Rex Art Museum is a fantastic exhibition place for art at Helsinki. It has a special location: very close to the city center, but underground. If you want to visit it you need to go to the Lasipalatsi, a functionalist building close to the main railway station. It combines coffee bars, shops, restaurants and a cinema (the Bio Rex). And underneath the Lasipalatsi (glass palace) you can find museum – fortunately the entrance at the building is clearly visible.

July 11, 2022January 13, 2023

Time-travel

The island Seurasaari in the north-west of Helsinki gives you the option to travel in time. An open-air museum exhibits 87 buildings from the Finnish countryside that have been built between the 17th and the 20th century and later transported to the island. This includes farm buildings, a church and even a mill. The staff is dressed-up in historic clothes and able to tell you more about the function of the buildings and rural life in the past.

July 10, 2022December 6, 2022

HAM

The city of Helsinki has an own art collection which consists of 9,000 works. A lot of them are on display in public places, a concept I really like. The rest of them can be found at the Helsinki Art Museum (or short: HAM). Part of the presented works is a permanent exhibition of paintings by Tove Jansson whom we all mostly know as the creator of the Moomins. As she was born and died in Helsinki, the HAM takes care of her legacy.

July 5, 2022November 28, 2022

Wallraf-Richartz-Museum

If you’re visiting Köln, Germany, and you’re into art – have a look at the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in the city center. It is a beautiful and classy art museum that presents sacred and profane art and opens up new perspectives on ancient artworks. If religious art is nothing for you, you can enjoy wonderful impressionist and neoimpressionist works from the Fondation Corboud as well.

July 3, 2022February 11, 2024

Forum Wissen

The university of Göttingen has a wide range of scientific collections. Most of them are open to the public, but they’re distributed throughout the city and only accessible in very limited time frames. Therefore most inhabitants don’t know the treasures stored in the city. This changes with the Forum Wissen which was opened in 2022. It serves as a portal to these collections and presents important items at a central and well-accessible place.

June 18, 2022October 16, 2022

Seafaring history

Ragusa and later Dubrovnik were always seafaring cities. They received their wealth by trading goods via the Mediterranean sea and had large and well-known fleets. Therefore it is no surprise that within the old city walls you’ll find a small museum on seafaring history: the Pomorski Muzej or Maritime Museum.

June 17, 2022October 16, 2022

MOMAD

Dubrovnik hosts some small museums in the historic city center, especially on seafaring and natural history. If you want to enjoy a more modern and large museum you need to leave the city center through the Ploče gate towards the East. After some meters you’ll find the wonderful Museum of Modern Art (or short: MOMAD) close to the shore of the Mediterranean sea.

June 17, 2022October 16, 2022

Under attack

It is rather uncommon that national states appear and disappear, but when it happens it is most often associated with large pain and bloodshed. That is especially true for Yugoslavia which was artificially created after World War I. It was planned as a state for south Slavic people, but this group was too heterogenous to grow together. Different ethnic groups, mostly Orthodox Serbs, Catholic Croatians and Muslim Bosniaks aimed either for predominance or autonomy. And Albanians, Hungarians, Macedonians, Montenegrins and Romani found themselves in between.