"There is no certain knowledge about the real origin of the name 'Suomi'," Satu Frondelius, National Museum of Finland curator, said in a BBC interview. "One theory is that Suomi comes from the ...

The Royal Academy of Turku had various collections in its possession, and the University’s historical and ethnographic collections became the beginnings of the National Museum of Finland. The origins ...

The saturation of Moomins in everyday Finnish life might be diluting Tove Jansson's original work, writes one Helsingin ...

from the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Ateneum (a space for Finnish art) to the Suomenlinna fortress and the National Museum of Finland. What makes Helsinki particularly appealing ...

“As an organization operating under the Finnish state, the National Gallery and its museums cannot participate in boycotts directed at individual citizens,” the museum said in a statement.

Established in 2003, the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design is actually a merger of four formerly separate museums. Only the National Gallery, Villa Stenersen, Mellomstasjonen (the ...

the Museum of Finnish Architecture, the Design Museum, the Helsinki City Museum, the National Museum of Finland and the Association of Cultural Heritage Education in Finland. The Helsinki University ...