Amos Rex in media: Helsinki's newest world-class cultural destination

<p>A renovated museum in Helsinki combines a sculptural public plaza, a Functionalist 1930s gem, and a massive domed subterranean space to create one of the coolest new buildings of the year.</p>

Amos Rex view to stairs

Bio Rex lobby

Museums for art lovers 

Amos Rex is an art museum where the past, present and future meet.

1. Amos Rex

Kiasma is a museum of contemporary art in the centre of Helsinki. It is a place where people meet art and where everyone is welcome.

2. Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma

The Ateneum is the home of Finnish art and part of the Finnish National Gallery. The museum's collection includes more than 20,000 national treasures. 

3. Ateneum Art Museum

The Helsinki Art Museum, HAM, looks after an art collection that belongs to the people of Helsinki, which includes over 9,000 works of art including the statues in Helsinki. HAM draws attention to modern art and contemporary art in its exhibitions at the Tennis Palace. Some of its galleries are also dedicated  to an exhibition of Tove Jansson's (1914-2001) life and works. The works of the artist are amongs the most cherished pieces in the HAM collection.

Some of the museum's exhibitions are always free to enter. Free entrance to the museum on the last Friday of every month.

At the Tennis Palace building you'll also find several cafés and restaurants, a museum shop as well as Helsinki's biggest cinema complex, Finnkino Tennispalatsi.

4. Helsinki Art Museum HAM

Kunsthalle Helsinki - Contemporary art and design in a beautiful venue, since 1928. 

Each year, Kunsthalle Helsinki hosts 5-7 major exhibitions, in addition to special events and a cross-disciplinary programme. The focus of the exhibitions is on contemporary art but the exhibition programme also includes design and architecture. 

There's also a small museum shop, Kioski, and restaurant Finnjävel, known for its Finnish modern cuisine.

5. Kunsthalle Helsinki

Located in Tapiola, Espoo, EMMA - Espoo Museum of Modern Art's collection and exhibition programme profiles Finnish and international modernism, contemporary art as well as design. EMMA's exhibition spaces - the largest in Finland - are situated in the architecturally impressive WeeGee building designed by Professor Aarno Ruusuvuori. The modern architecture adds to the experience-focused presentation of the changing exhibitions and permanent collections of EMMA, the Saastamoinen Foundation and Tapio Wirkkala Rut Bryk Foundation. 

 Espoo City Museum (KAMU) is also located at the Exhibition Centre WeeGee. In the building you can find a café and museum shop as well. 

Free entrance to all the museums in the building on Fridays at 17-19.

6. EMMA - Espoo Museum of Modern Art

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The Latest addition to Helsinki’s cultural quarter is opened! The new Amos Rex museums exhibition programme will extend from the newest, often experimental, contemporary art to 20th-century Modernism and ancient cultures. ...