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Ateneum is an art museum in Helsinki, Finland and one of the three museums forming the Finnish National Gallery. It is located in the centre of Helsinki on the south side of Rautatientori square close to Helsinki Central railway station. It has the biggest collections of classical art in Finland. Before 1991 the Ateneum building also housed the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts and University of Art and Design Helsinki.
2. Temppeliaukio Church
Temppeliaukio Church is a Lutheran church in the Töölö neighbourhood of Helsinki, Finland. The church was designed by architects and brothers Timo and Tuomo Suomalainen and opened in 1969. Built directly into solid rock, it is also known as the Church of the Rock and Rock Church.
3. Uspenski Cathedral
Uspenski Cathedral is a Greek Orthodox or Eastern Orthodox cathedral in Helsinki, Finland, and main cathedral of the Orthodox Church of Finland, dedicated to the Dormition of the Theotokos. Its name comes from the Old Church Slavonic word uspenie, which denotes the Dormition. It is the largest Greek Orthodox church in Northern Europe.
4. Helsinki Cathedral
Helsinki Cathedral is the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran cathedral of the Diocese of Helsinki, located in the neighborhood of Kruununhaka in the centre of Helsinki, Finland, at the Senate Square. The church was originally built from 1830 to 1852 as a tribute to the Grand Duke of Finland, Emperor Nicholas I of Russia. It was also known as St Nicholas's Church until Finland declared its full independence in 1917. It is a major landmark of the city, and one of the most famous historical structures in Finland as a whole when viewed globally.
5. Harbour
The Port is a relief made by sculptor Eino Räsänen in Jätkäsaari, Helsinki. The relief depicts two women, one carrying heavy objects on her shoulder, the other with her hands. In the center are three bent men, two of whom carry sacks on their backs. One man lifts the chain used to moor the ship. At the bottom right and left are dishes and other objects, in the background are four ships and a lighthouse.
6. Amos Rex
Amos Rex is an art museum named after the publisher and arts patron Amos Anderson and located in Lasipalatsi, on Mannerheimintie boulevard in Helsinki, Finland. It opened in 2018 and rapidly reached international popularity, attracting more than 10,000 visitors in a matter of weeks.
7. Design Museum
Design Museum is a museum in Helsinki devoted to the exhibition of both Finnish and foreign design, including industrial design, fashion, and graphic design. The building is situated in Kaartinkaupunki, on Korkeavuorenkatu Street, and is owned by the Republic of Finland through Senate Properties. The building was completed in 1895 and originally built as a school building for the Swedish school Läroverket för gossar och flickor.
8. Old Market Hall
The Old Market Hall is the oldest market hall in Helsinki, Finland. It is located along the Eteläranta street near the Helsinki Market Square in the Kaartinkaupunki district. By 2013, the hall had also become a popular tourist attraction.
9. Esplanadi Park
Esplanadi, colloquially known as Espa, is an esplanade and urban park in downtown Helsinki, Finland, situated between the Erottaja square and the Market Square. It is bordered on its northern and southern sides by the Pohjoisesplanadi and Eteläesplanadi streets, respectively. Aleksanterinkatu runs parallel to Esplanadi. Esplanadi is well known as a popular walking area, and street performances are also often held in the park.
10. Market Square
The Market Square is a central square in Helsinki, Finland. It is located in central Helsinki, at the eastern end of Esplanadi and bordering the Baltic Sea to the south and Katajanokka to the east. HSL maintains a year-round ferry link from Market Square to Suomenlinna, and in the summer there are also private companies providing ferry cruises, both to Suomenlinna and to other nearby islands. The Presidential Palace, Helsinki City Hall, Swedish Embassy and the Stora Enso Headquarters building are all located adjacent to Market Square.
11. Meripuisto
Meripuisto is a 2.27-hectare park in the Ullanlinna district of Helsinki's southern inner city, between Merikatu and Merisatama. It is about 500 metres long, but at its widest it is less than 100 metres wide. There is also a street called Merisatamanranta between the park and the sea. In an east-west direction, the park extends from the Maiden Trail, which separates it from Kaivopuisto, to Wecksellintie. The park is divided into spacious park space and functional areas. Much of it is open lawn.
12. Pyhien lapsimarttyyrien Pistiksen, Elpiksen, Agapen ja heidän äitinsä Sofian kirkko
The Orthodox Church of Finland or Finnish Orthodox Church is an autonomous Eastern Orthodox archdiocese of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. The church has a legal position as a national church in the country, along with the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland.
13. Helsingin Raamattu Puhuu -seurakunta
Greater Grace World Outreach (GGWO) is a nondenominational evangelical Christian church. The headquarters of Greater Grace World Outreach is currently located at its megachurch in Baltimore, Maryland, after they were forced to declare bankruptcy due to a $5.5 million dollar court case in which the founding pastor was determined to have manipulated and pressured a donor into secretly donating large sums of money. The church has a weekly attendance of 1500+. GGWO was founded by Carl H. Stevens Jr. who was succeeded by Pastor Thomas Schaller as Presiding Elder and Overseeing Pastor of Greater Grace World Outreach in Baltimore in April 2005.
14. Linnanmäki
Linnanmäki is an amusement park in Helsinki, Finland. It was opened on 27 May 1950 and is owned by the non-profit Children's Day Foundation, which operates the park to raise funds for Finnish child welfare work. In 2023, the foundation donated €4.5 million, and so far has donated a total of over €130 million to this cause.
15. J. V. Snellman
Johan Vilhelm Snellman was an influential Fennoman philosopher and Finnish statesman, ennobled in 1866. He was one of the most important 'awakeners' or promoters of Finnish nationalism, alongside Elias Lönnrot and J. L. Runeberg.
16. Stone Visitor
The Stone Guest is an opera in three acts by Alexander Dargomyzhsky from a libretto taken almost verbatim from Alexander Pushkin's 1830 play of the same name which had been written in blank verse and which forms part of his collection Little Tragedies.
17. Kristuskyrkan
Kristuskyrkan is a Christian church in Helsinki, Finland, located in the central district of Etu-Töölö at the corner between Fänrik Ståls Street and Apollonkatu Street. It was built at the beginning of the twentieth century and it is part of the Swedish Methodist Church of Finland.
18. The Finnish Museum of Photography
The Finnish Museum of Photography is the national museum responsible for photography, located at the Cable Factory in Helsinki. The museum has exhibition space K1 as a branch office in the Kämp Gallery. The museum's mission is to promote and nurture Finnish photographic art and culture. Founded on the initiative of photographic organizations, the museum began its activities in 1969. The museum is maintained by the Foundation of the Finnish Museum of Photography. In 2019, a total of 31,306 visitors visited the museum, of whom 10,885 received a free visit and 20,421 paid an entrance fee.
19. Finnish National Opera
The Finnish National Opera and Ballet is a Finnish opera company and ballet company based in Helsinki. It is headquartered in the Opera House on the coast of the Töölönlahti bay in Töölö, which opened in 1993, and is state-owned through Senate Properties. The Opera House features two auditoriums, the main auditorium with 1,350, seats and a smaller studio auditorium with 300–500 seats.
20. Vanha kirkkopuisto
Old Church Park is a park and historical cemetery in Kamppi, Helsinki, surrounding the Old Church, covering an area of one block. The old church is located on the edge of the park along Lönnrotinkatu. Other streets surrounding the park are Annankatu, Bulevardi and Yrjönkatu.
21. Helsingin Saalem
Salem Church in Helsinki is a Pentecostal church located in Helsinki, Finland. Salem Church was founded in 1928. Today, Salem Church is the largest Pentecostal church in Finland with approximately 3,500 members. The congregation meets at the Salem Temple in Näkinkuja, Hakaniemi. Since October 2022, branch president has been Stefan Sigfrids. Salem Church is a member of the Pentecostal Church of Finland.
Wikipedia: Helsingin Saalem-seurakunta (FI), Website, Website
22. Suomenlinna Church
The Suomenlinna Church in Helsinki, Finland, was built in 1854 as an Eastern Orthodox garrison church for the Russian troops stationed at the Suomenlinna sea fortress. The fortress comprises five islands joined together by bridges, and the church is the central feature on the island of Iso Mustasaari, located at its highest point. It is surrounded by other fortress buildings, but the old parade ground is immediately to the east, and a park lies immediately to the south. It is oriented southwest to northeast so that it would align with the Crownwork Ehrensvärd defense front located to the southwest of the church.
23. St. Henry's Cathedral
St. Henry's Cathedral is a Catholic cathedral in Helsinki, Finland, dedicated in honor of Bishop Henrik, a 12th-century Bishop of Turku. It is the cathedral church of the Diocese of Helsinki. In terms of membership, the cathedral is the largest in Finland, with approximately 5,000 members.
24. Vuoristorata
Vuoristorata is a classic wooden roller coaster located at the Linnanmäki amusement park in Helsinki, Finland. It was built in the winter of 1950 by Linnanmäki's staff on the basis of drawings by Valdemar Lebech, a Danish builder specialising in fairground rides. The construction work was led by the Danish ride operator Svend Jarlström, who at the time owned most of Linnanmäki's rides. Opened on 13 July 1951, Vuoristorata was the largest roller coaster in the Nordic countries and the tallest in Europe at the time. Expected to last up to 15 years, it was originally designed as a temporary attraction for the amusement park, opened in 1950. One of the main reasons for its construction was to attract tourists from the 1952 Summer Olympics held in the city. Since then, its temporary status was renewed for extended periods, until it was eventually regarded as a permanent structure.
25. St. John's Church
St. John's Church in Helsinki, Finland, is a Lutheran church designed by the Swedish architect Adolf Melander in the Gothic Revival style. It is the largest stone church in Finland by seating capacity.
26. Pyhän Nikolauksen kirkko
St. Nicholas Parish in Helsinki is an Orthodox religious community operating mainly in Helsinki. The congregation has 2,400 members (2012). You can belong to a community without a domicile in Finland, and approximately 30 per cent of its members are other than Finnish citizens. The parish does not belong to the Finnish Orthodox Church but to the Russian Orthodox Church, i.e. the Moscow Patriarchate.
27. 14th Searchlight Battery memorial plaque
The 14th Searchlight Battery was a Finnish anti-aircraft searchlight battery formed from women of the Lotta Svärd organization at the end of the Continuation War. The battery was formed to free some men for other tasks and was used in the air-defence of Helsinki. The battery was the only armed unit in Finnish Army made up from women that was organized as a military unit fit for combat duty. The searchlight battery was operational from late summer 1944 to the end of the Continuation War but did not see action.
28. Villa Annala
Annala Villa is a white villa building located in Helsinki's Old Town, along Hämeentie near Arabianranta, just before the Vanhankaupunginkoski rapids, at the top of Annala Manor Park. The villa was founded in 1826 by Gustaf Otto Wasenius, a printer and tobacco manufacturer and a significant figure in cultural and municipal life, on a plot he rented from the City of Helsinki along Itäinen viertotie.
29. Sompasauna
Sompasauna is a free public sauna in Hermanninranta, Helsinki, maintained by Sompasaunaseura ry. The wooden sauna can be heated and used by anyone around the clock, and there are no staff working in the sauna.
30. Suhe
Suhe Parish or Greater Helsinki Parish is a Christian parish in Kallio, Helsinki. Suhe was founded in 1990 by pastor Rauno Kokkola. Today, the church's lead pastor is Juan David Gómez. Suhe operates as a denominationally independent community.
31. Helsinki Old Church
The Old Church of Helsinki, designed by Carl Ludvig Engel and completed in 1826, is an Evangelical Lutheran church in Helsinki. The oldest existing church in central Helsinki, the church was originally planned as a temporary building as the Ulrika Eleonora Church constructed in 1727 had become too small for the congregation and the new church, Helsinki Cathedral, would not be completed until 1852. However, the city's rapid population growth from the early 19th century onwards ensured that the church would remain needed, and also necessitated the construction of many other churches.
32. Winter Garden
Helsinki Winter Garden is a greenhouse open to the public in the Zoo area north of Töölönlahti Bay at Hammarskjöldintie 1 A. The Winter Garden displays a wide range of plants, most of them from the tropics.
33. The Three Smiths
The Three Smiths Statue is a sculpture by Felix Nylund, situated in Helsinki, Finland, in Three Smiths Square at the intersection of Aleksanterinkatu and Mannerheimintie. This realistic statue, unveiled in 1932, depicts three naked smiths hammering on an anvil.
34. Harmajan majakka
Harmaja is an island and a lighthouse outside Helsinki, south of the Suomenlinna sea fortress. The island has been functioning as a landmark since the 16th century. A landmark structure was built on the island in the 18th century and a light house in 1883. The first lighthouse was only 7.3 m high and it soon proved to be too low. In 1900 the height was doubled by creating a rectangular brick building on a granite base. A large foghorn alerted ships in fog and in bad visibility. Harmaja received the world's first directed and undirected radio beacon in 1936. The lighthouse is fully automated today.
35. Taivaskallio
Taivaskallio A 57.2-metre-high hill in Käpylä, Helsinki, in an area bounded by Pohjolankadu, Panuntie, the main railway and Käpyläntie. Most of it is parkland, but there is also a small residential area on its eastern slope. From 1905 to 1946, Taivaskallio was the highest terrain point in Helsinki. Taivaskallio has been known as a place name for a long time; From the time of the rural municipality of Helsinki in the 1700s, there is a mention of Himlaberget, also Högberget. At the northern end of Taivaskallio there is a post-glacial lake Ancylus embankment at an altitude of about 45 metres and a barrier on the shore of the Litorina Sea at a height of 35 metres, as well as two boulders. At the top of the cliff there is a small dammed pond into which water is discharged for the summer season. The pond is home to a protected population of newts.
36. Viikin puulajipuisto
The Viikki Arboretum, or Viikki Wood Park, is part of the outdoor and recreational area of the Old Town Bay of Helsinki and Viikki. Arboretum was founded in 1969 for the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry at the University of Helsinki for research and teaching. It is led by a joint management team of the University of Helsinki and the City of Helsinki.
37. The Shipwrecked
Shipwrecked is a bronze sculpture in Helsinki's Tähtitorninmäki district, Ullanlinna. Unveiled in 1898, the work was designed by sculptor Robert Stigell. The work was cast in Paris, where Stigell also finished his sculptures. The height of the work is 4.5 metres, but with the granite pedestal the height rises to six metres. The stand was manufactured in Hanko.
38. Helsingin Siion-seurakunta
Helsinki Zion Church is a Pentecostal revival church in Töölö, Helsinki. It has about 500 members. The Zion Church is based on believers in Jesus who believe in the Bible as such and strive to apply it in their lives.
39. Myllypuron vesitorni
The Myllypuro water tower is located in the Vartiokylä district of Helsinki in the Myllypuro sub-area north of Viilarintie. It was completed in 1965. The water tower was designed by architect Bertel Saarnio and structural design by Insinööritoimisto P. Simula. The builder was Silta ja Satama Oy.
40. Merkki
Media Museum and Archives The sign is a special museum located in the former premises of Helsingin Sanomat on Ludviginkatu in Kaartinkaupunki, Helsinki. It is part of the Helsingin Sanomat Foundation.
Wikipedia: Median museo ja arkisto Merkki (FI), Facebook, Website
41. Holy Trinity Church
The Holy Trinity Church is a Finnish Orthodox Church located in the Kruununhaka district of Helsinki, on the corner of Unioninkatu and Rauhankatu. The church was built in the neo-classical style in 1826 under the direction of the architect Carl Ludvig Engel, and was dedicated and opened in the following year. The Holy Trinity services the city's orthodox community with Divine Liturgy held in both Church Slavic and Finnish.
42. Burgher's house
The Spraymaster's House is a wooden building in Kruununhaka, completed no later than 1818, which is the oldest stationary wooden house in the Helsinki city centre. Alexander Wickholm, who worked as a spray master, bought it as an apartment for his family in 1859. The building is one of the offices of the Helsinki City Museum, and it has been restored to showcase the home life of a family of civil servants in the 1860s. The property includes a one-storey main building and a courtyard building, but at one time there was also a stable, barn, wagon shed and woodshed on the plot. These buildings were demolished in 1905 and replaced by a three-storey stone house. The courtyard building has been used as a sauna, baking room and living rooms. Originally, the main building was painted with red soil, but when Wickholm bought the house, it had already been painted ochre yellow.
43. Museum of Finnish Architecture
The Museum of Finnish Architecture is an architectural museum in Helsinki, Finland. Established in 1956, it is the second oldest museum of its kind devoted specifically to architecture. The museum was founded on the basis of the photographic collection of the Finnish Association of Architects (SAFA), which was established in 1949.
Wikipedia: Museum of Finnish Architecture (EN), Website, Tripadvisor
44. Malminkartano Hill
Malminkartanonhuippu is an artificial hill in the district of Malminkartano in Helsinki, Finland. It is located near to the Vihti Road and the Myyrmäki district of Vantaa. With a height of approximately 90 meters above sea level, it is the highest point in the city of Helsinki. The view from the top gives an uninterrupted 360° panorama in all directions, for those who have climbed the 426 steps.
45. Musiikkimuseo FAME
Music Museum Fame – Finnish Music Hall of Fame is a music museum in the Tripla shopping centre in Central Pasila in Helsinki. The entrance to the museum premises is from the outside from the Pasilansilta bridge side and from the inside from the third floor of Tripla.
46. Kallio Church
Kallio Church is a Lutheran church in the Kallio district of Helsinki, Finland. It was designed by Lars Sonck and represents National Romanticism with Art Nouveau influences. The National Romantic style appears in the use of traditional Finnish materials and in the church's massive, gray granite body, as well as in nature-inspired colours and decorative motifs.
47. Östersundomin kirkko
Östersundom or Itäsalmi Church is a church in Helsinki, which before 2009 belonged to Sipoo. The church is the oldest in present-day Helsinki. At the beginning of 2009, Östersundom Church was transferred to Sipoo from the Finnish and Swedish parishes to Mikaeli Parish in Helsinki and Matthew församling when the southwestern parts of Sipoo became part of Helsinki.
48. Crescendo / A Memorial to those who fell in the Finnish Civil War 1918
The Memorial to the Victims of the Civil War of 1918 is a national memorial to the Reds of the Finnish Civil War located at Helsinki Zoo. The bronze sculpture, unveiled in 1970, was designed by sculptor Taisto Martiskainen. It is dedicated to the memory of women and men who fought and fell on the side of the Reds in the Civil War and died in prison camps. The monument stands on a granite pedestal on top of a cliff near the intersection of Nordenskiöldinkatu and Pohjoisen Stadiontie.
Wikipedia: Vuoden 1918 kansalaissodan uhrien muistomerkki (FI), Website
49. Spring / UKK Monument
The Urho Kekkonen Memorial or Lähde is a monument dedicated to President Urho Kekkonen (1900–1986) in Helsinki's Hakasalmi Park, next to Finlandia Hall. A design competition was held for the monument in 1997, which was won by sculptor Pekka Jylhä with his proposal Lähde. The work was unveiled on the centenary of Kekkonen's birth on 3 September 2000.
Wikipedia: Urho Kekkosen muistomerkki (Helsinki) (FI), Website
50. Villa Gyllenberg
Villa Gyllenberg is a private art and house museum owned by the Signe and Ane Gyllenberg Foundation, located in western Helsinki on the southwest shore of Kuusisaari. The address of the museum is Kuusisaarenpolku 11.
51. Fila Church Helsinki
Fila Church Helsinki, full name Helsingin Filadelfia Parish, is a Finnish and English-speaking Pentecostal church in Kamppi, Helsinki. The parish was founded as a bilingual congregation in 1920. Helsinki Philadelphia is the second oldest Pentecostal church in Finland.
52. Hyvän Paimenen kirkko
The Church of the Good Shepherd is the parish church of Pakila in Helsinki. The church, completed in 1950, was thoroughly renovated and expanded in 2002. Bishop Eero Huovinen inaugurated the renamed church on December 1, 2002.
53. Luther-kirkko
Luther Church in Helsinki is a church built for the use of the Finnish Lutheran Gospel Association (SLEY) at Fredrikinkatu 42. SLEY leases the property from its current owner, Varma Mutual Pension Insurance Company. The space returned to church use in May 2016 after twenty years as a nightclub and restaurant space.
54. Kamppi Chapel
The Kamppi Chapel is a chapel in the neighbourhood of Kamppi in Helsinki, Finland, located on the Narinkka Square. It is also known as the "Chapel of Silence" since it is intended to be a place to calm down and have a moment of silence in one of the busiest areas of the city.
55. Tram Museum
The Tram Museum or Tram Museum is a special museum operating under the Helsinki City Museum in Taka-Töölö, Helsinki. The museum presents the history of tram traffic in Helsinki. It is housed in Helsinki's oldest tram hall, dating back to 1900, designed by architect Waldemar Aspelin.
56. Military Museum
The Military Museum of Finland is the central museum of the Finnish Defence Forces and the national special museum of military history. It is located in Helsinki and it is part of the Finnish National Defence University. In 2018, the Military Museum's exhibitions in Suomenlinna had around 131,000 visitors. The most popular exhibition is the submarine Vesikko, visited by around 50,000 people annually. Military Museum's exhibitions in Suomenlinna are located at Manege and Artillery Maneage.
57. Unelma
The Dream is a movable public sculpture by visual artist Oona Tikkaoja. It was first launched in Kallio, Helsinki, near the metro station on Siltasaarenkatu in August 2012. The sculpture was replaced at Kannelmäki Sitratori, where it was unveiled in November 2013. The work is multicoloured and somewhat reminiscent of a hot air balloon or carousel and includes a Savonius rotor powered by wind power.
58. Mikaelinkirkko
Mikaelinkirkko is the headquarters of Mikaeli Parish in Kontula, Helsinki. The modernist church was inaugurated on 7 May 1988. The church hall has 300 seats and the parish hall 250. Mikaelinkirkko is located on Emännänpolku, right next to the Kontula shopping centre.
59. Paavo Nurmi
The Paavo nurmi statue is a whole-body sculpture of runner Paavo Nurmi, the most successful Olympic athlete in Finland, made by sculptor Wäinö Aaltonen. The bronze sculpture was made in 1925 and there have been four additional casts of it. The statue has become a symbol for Finnish sport and the independent Finnish nation as well as an envoy of the image of Finland.
60. Kannelmäki Church
Kannelmäki Church is a church building inaugurated on 1 September 1968 and designed by architects Marjatta and Martti Jaatinen in the Kannelmäki sub-district of the Kaarela district of northwestern Helsinki.
61. Hesperian puisto
Hesperia Park is a park located on the western shore of Töölönlahti Bay in Helsinki, belonging to the districts of Etu-Töölö and Taka-Töölö. It borders Mannerheimintie in the west, Finlandia Hall in the south and the Finnish National Opera and Ballet in the north. On the beach, however, the park extends in a narrow strip all the way to Helsinginkatu, on the other side of which is the Zoo park area. South of Töölönlahti is the Töölönlahti Park, opened in 2016. The entire Töölönlahti park zone can be counted as part of Helsinki Central Park.
62. Ukko
Ukko is a roller coaster located in Linnanmäki Amusement Park in Helsinki. The device, called Skyloop, is manufactured by German Maurer Söhne. The track was opened to the public on the 61st anniversary of Linnanmäki on 27 May 2011.
63. Käpylän kirkko
Käpylä Church is a church in Käpylä, Helsinki, on Metsolantie. It was designed by architect Eero Ilmari Sutinen and built between 1929 and 1930. It has elements of early functionalism, but in terms of details it still represents classicism. The church seats between 420 and 570.
64. Asentajanpuisto
The installation park is one of the parks in the middle of the Herttoniemi business area of Helsinki. The lane-like park is located surrounded by Laivalahti, carpentry, mechanic, and installation street. The installer park and Valurinpuisto form a narrow 850 -meter park axis in the old Herttoniemi port area. When the Herttoniemi harbor and the railway left, the zoning's vision was to create a park in the middle of the industrial area that would improve the milieu and act as a hole in the workplace and as a light traffic route. The park is a compositional and traffic extension to the main axis of Herttoniemenranta.
65. Lastenlehto
Children's Grove is a triangular park in Kamppi, Helsinki. It is bordered by Lapinlahdenkatu, Lapinrinne and Ruoholahdenkatu. The name of the park derives from the children's home of the Lady's Folk Association that was once located nearby.
66. Helsinki Central Park
Central Park is a park in Helsinki, Finland. It has an area of 10 square kilometres (4 sq mi). The park stretches 10 kilometres (6 mi) from Töölönlahti Bay in the south to the border of Helsinki and Vantaa in the north.
67. Kluuvinlahti Fossils
Kluuvinlahti fossils is a work of art by Tuula Närhinen completed in 2003 on Aleksanterinkatu in Helsinki. The work features recessed 8.5-centimetre-wide copper strips running across the sidewalks. They bear the Latin names of plants and animals on the grassy seashore.
Wikipedia: Kluuvinlahden fossiilit (taideteos) (FI), Website
68. Mannerheim Museum
The Mannerheim Museum is located in Helsinki, Finland. It is dedicated to preserving and displaying items related to the life and times of Marshal C. G. E. Mannerheim, a Finnish statesman and military officer. The Mannerheim Museum is located on top of a hill in a prestigious residential area next to the Kaivopuisto park in Helsinki. The building was the home of Mannerheim from 1924 to 1951. With the exception of a few rooms that have been converted for exhibition purposes, his home has been preserved in its original state.
69. Paasivuoren puistikko
Paasipuisto, formerly Sirkuspuisto, is a small rectangular park in Siltasaari, Helsinki. It is bounded on one side by Saariniemenkatu and on three sides by Paasivuorenkatu. The park is otherwise surrounded on all sides by high-rise apartment buildings, except for the view of Hakaniementor from the east end.
70. Matteuksenkirkko
St. Matthew's Church or Itäkeskus Church is a church completed in 1985 in Vartiokylä, Helsinki, next to the Itis shopping centre. The church, designed by Veli-Pekka Tuominen and Stefan Ahlman, was completed in 1985 and was previously the main church of the Vartiokylä parish until the parish abandoned the building in 2016 and switched to using Vartiokylä Church and Puotila Chapel. Today, the church serves as the main church of the Swedish-speaking congregation of St. Matthew. The church was consecrated by Bishop Samuel Lehtonen on February 24, 1985.
71. Töölön kirkko
Töölö Church is a Lutheran church in the Taka-Töölö district of Helsinki, Finland. The building represents Nordic Classicism and was designed by Hilding Ekelund following an architectural competition. Completed in 1930, it originally served as a parish center and was dedicated as a church when Töölö parish was created in 1941.
72. Savoy Theatre
Savoy Theatre is a guest theatre for Finnish and foreign performers in Helsinki's Kaartinkaupunki. The theatre is connected to the Savoy restaurant. It is especially known as a concert venue for world music. Savoy Theatre is one of the locations of the Helsinki Cultural Centre.
73. Ehrensvärd Museum
The Ehrensvärd Museum is a specialised museum located in Suomenlinna. The museum is located in Susisaari Castle Yard. It is housed in the former residence of the commandant of the fortress. The museum was opened in 1930. The museum has been decorated to tell what the residence of the chief of the fortress looked like in the 1700s. On display are portraits, weapons and scale models of ships of the archipelago fleet. In front of the museum is the tomb of Augustin Ehrensvärd. The museum is subordinate to the Governing Body of Suomenlinna and is maintained by the Ehrensvärd Society, which founded the museum in 1927.
74. Kumtähden kenttä
Kumtähti Airport is a small park area in Toukola, Helsinki. It is located between Hämeentie and Gustav Vasa road north of their branching point, about three kilometers north-northeast of the centre of Helsinki. Nearby on the other side of Gustav Vaasa road is now the Kumpula campus of the University of Helsinki.
75. Olaus Petri Church
Olaus Petri Church is a church building in Helsinki, located in the Etu-Töölö district of Minervakatu. The church belongs to the Olaus Petri Parish in Helsinki, which is part of the Diocese of Porvoo. Before 2007, the congregation was part of the Church of Sweden.
76. The Hotel and Restaurant Museum
The Hotel and Restaurant Museum specializes in the history of Finnish hotels, restaurants, cafés, tourism and culinary culture. The museum is located in Kaapelitehdas, Helsinki, Finland. The museum was first opened in 1971 but has operated in its present premises since 1993. The museums collection includes about 20,000 artifacts and other objects from restaurants, bars, diners, spas and hotels. Museum's archives include about 38,000 photographs, menus and other documents. Museum also takes care of the Alko store museum's collection.
77. Huopalahden kirkko
Huopalahti Church is located in Etelä-Haaga, Helsinki, and it belongs to Haaga parish. The building had first served as a meeting place for Finnish speakers and then as a school. In 1917, services began to be held there. The church use had to be temporary, as Eliel Saarinen had designed a new church in the area, but it was never built. In 1928, the building was officially converted into a prayer room, and it was consecrated as a church after renovation in 1942. With the abandonment of Hakavuori Church, Huopalahti Church is currently the only church in Haaga Parish.
78. The Lantern Carriers
Lyhdynkantajat is a group of sculptures at the front door of the Helsinki Central Station in Helsinki, Finland. The sculptures were designed by Emil Wikström and completed in 1914. Lyhdynkantajat is part of the facade of the Art Nouveau station designed by Eliel Saarinen.
79. Tapio Wirkkala park
Tapio Wirkkala Park is an art park in Arabianranta, Helsinki. It is named after designer Tapio Wirkkala. The park was opened on 22 October 2012 and is one of the City of Helsinki's own World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 projects. The park was opened by Pekka Sauri, Deputy Mayor of Helsinki.
80. Neptunus
The Pajamäki Solar System Scale Model is a scale model of the Solar System built in Helsinki and partly in Espoo, Finland in 1992. Its scale is 1:1 000, i.e. one to one billion, so that 1 millimeter in the model corresponds to 1 000 kilometers in the actual Solar System. The coordinates given for the model are those for the Sun in Patterinmäki.
81. Mäntymäki
Mäntymäki is a rocky and forested hill in Helsinki, on the southern edge of the Zoo area near Töölönlahti. Helsinginkatu runs past it to the south and east, and Mäntymäentie to the north. On the west side in front of the hill is a wide square, the Mäntymäki field.
82. Topelius and children
Topelius and the Children is a monument to Zacharias Topelius in Koulupuistikko in Kaartinkaupunki, Helsinki. The park is bordered by Korkeavuorenkatu, Merimiehenkatu, Yrjönkatu and Ratakatu. The sculpture was designed by Ville Vallgren and was erected in 1932.
83. Lightbringer - National Memorial to the Winter War
The National Memorial to the Winter War, or Bringer of Light, is a steel statue located on Kasarmitori Square in Helsinki, completed in 2017. The monument is designed by sculptor Pekka Kauhanen and is a soldier about 10 metres high. It is the largest steel statue in Finland. Kauhanen won a design competition organised by the Ministry of Culture in 2013.
Wikipedia: Talvisodan kansallinen muistomerkki (FI), Website
84. Memorial to the Estonian volunteers
The Estonian Visitors' Hero's Tomb is a joint grave of the Finnish volunteer troops of the Estonian War of Independence located in Helsinki's Old Church Park, where approximately one fifth of the Finnish heroic dead of the war rest.
85. Bear on Anthill
Mesipalm on an anthill is a sculpture made of red granite by Finnish sculptor Jussi Mäntynen (1886–1978) from 1931. It is located in Karhupuisto Park in Kallio, Helsinki. The sculpture depicts a bear rooting for an anthill.
86. Kartta
The map is a memorial to President Mauno Koivisto, designed by visual artist Perttu Saksa, at Hietaniemi Cemetery in Helsinki. It is black diabase with gilded lines. Germany won the design competition for the grave monument.
87. Mikael Agricola Church
Mikael Agricola Church is a Lutheran church located in the Punavuori district of Helsinki, Finland. It was designed by Lars Sonck and built between 1933 and 1935. The church was inaugurated on 14 April 1935. It is named after bishop Mikael Agricola.
88. Tauno Palon puisto
Tauno Palo Park is located in the Kallio district of Helsinki. In the north, it borders Helsinginkatu, from where it is separated by a low stone wall. To the south and west, the park area rises into a slope with an asphalt-paved staircase/embankment for pedestrians, which curves southwest towards the intersection of Alppikatu and Wallininkatu. To the east, the park borders the courtyard of a residential apartment building. Tram line 8 runs past the park along Helsinginkatu. The park is located approximately halfway between the stops of Linnanmäki and Urheilutalo.
89. Sinebrychoff Art Museum
The Sinebrychoff Art Museum is an art museum located on Bulevardi in Helsinki, Finland. The museum exhibits the old European art collections of the Finnish National Gallery. In addition, half of the museum acts as a historic house museum, displaying the 19th century estate of the Sinebrychoff family.
90. Memorial to Jewish Refugees - Hands Begging for Help
The Memorial to Jewish Refugees or Hands Pleading for Help is a sculpture in Ullanlinna, Helsinki, on a slope near the Makasiini terminal. The work was designed by Rafael Wardi and Niels Haukeland and was unveiled on November 5, 2000. The sculpture is dedicated to the memory of eight Jewish refugees handed over by Finland to Nazi Germany during World War II. Only one of them survived the Nazi extermination camps alive.
91. Dallapénpuisto
Dallapénpuisto Park is a park in Vallila, Helsinki. It was built on the site of the former railway yard area of the Sörnäinen harbour railway; the park is located next to Harju Youth Centre in the area bounded by Aleksis Kiven katu, Teollisuuskatu and Kustaankatu.
92. Ilmatar and the Scaup
Ilmatar ja sotka is the best-known work by Finnish sculptor Aarre Aaltonen, which depicts the birth of the world from the perspective of the Kalevala. The epic subject matter has been depicted in a way that refers to art deco and classicism. The statue is located in Helsinki's Sibelius Park, east of Mechelininkatu, which cuts through the park.
93. Maunulan kirkko
Maunula Church is a church building located in Maunula, Helsinki. The church mainly serves as the church of the Swedish-speaking Petrus församling, but there are also activities of the Oulunkylä parish. The church was designed by architect Ahti Korhonen and completed in 1980.
94. Vuosaaren kirkko
Vuosaari Church is a church building designed by Pirkko and Arvi Ilonen in Vuosaari, Helsinki. The address of the church is Satamasaarentie 7. The church was inaugurated by Bishop Aimo T. Nikolainen on May 23, 1980. Ahti Sonninen composed a special Pentecostal cantata for the occasion.
95. Tammisalon kirkko
Tammisalo Church is the parish church of Roihuvuori in the Tammisalo district of Helsinki. It was completed in 1966 and is the oldest of the three churches in the parish. The church was designed by architect Lauri Silvennoinen. The red-brick church has a separate bell tower.
96. Vartiokylän kirkko
Vartiokylä Church is a white-brick church building designed by architect Pekka Laurila in the Vartiokylä district of Helsinki. Located in the middle of the Vartioharju residential area, the church was completed in 1958, making it one of the oldest multipurpose churches in Finland. After its completion, the church was an attraction that people came to see from afar.
97. Oulunkylän vanha kirkko
The wooden church of Oulunkylä in Oulunkylä, Helsinki, is the church building of the parish of Oulunkylä, originally built as a prayer house in 1905. It has also previously been the main church of the Swedish-speaking Petrus församling. For the parish of Oulunkylä, it was first used as a temporary church and later as the main church until the completion of the new Oulunkylä church in 1972. Since then, the parish of Oulunkylä has used the church as a wedding church, among other things.
98. Herttoniemen kirkko
Herttoniemi Church is a church building of Herttoniemi parish in Länsi-Herttoniemi, Helsinki. The red-brick clad church was completed in 1958. It was designed by architect Osmo Lappo, who founded his own office in 1957 and whose main work is the Vekaranjärvi barracks area, which began about ten years later.
99. Lapinlahden puistikko
Lapinlahden puistikko is located in the triangle between Lapinlahdenkatu, Eerikinkatu and Albertinkatu in Helsinki. In 2001, Latvian artist Oskars Mikans' sculpture Man Rises from a Garbage Bin depicting Arvo Parkkila was erected there.
100. Malmin kirkko
Malmi Church is a church building designed by Kristian Gullichsen in Malmi, Helsinki. It belongs to Malmi parish and is its main church. The church was consecrated by Bishop Aimo T. Nikolainen on 13 September 1981.
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