Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #11 in Helsinki, Finland

Liisanpuistikko is a small park in Kruununhaka, Helsinki. The park is bounded by Pohjoisranta, Maneesikatu, Maurinkatu and Liisankatu.

Wikipedia: Liisanpuistikko (FI)

Theatre Jurkka is a professional theatre on Vironkatu in Kruununhaka, Helsinki. The theatre was founded in 1953 and has operated in its current premises since 1954. There are 51 seats.

Wikipedia: Teatteri Jurkka (FI), Website

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.

Wikipedia: Holy Trinity Church, Helsinki (EN)

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.

Wikipedia: Helsinki Cathedral (EN), Website

Science Museum Liekki is a museum maintained by the University of Helsinki and located on the first floor of the university's main building. The observatory building on Tähtitorninvuori, which has been converted into a public centre, is also part of the Liekki Science Museum, as is Porthania's drawing room.

Wikipedia: Helsingin yliopistomuseo (FI), Website

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

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.

Wikipedia: Ateneum (EN), Website

Verkko is a spatial installation by Annikki Luukela at the University of Helsinki metro station in Helsinki. The work starts in the glass cabinet on the upper platform of the station and continues to the platform level along the wall of the escalator. In addition, it includes neon and holographic works in quay-level display cases. The network is made of a colored neon light tube, which has been used for a total of more than a hundred meters. The work was completed in 1995, when the station was opened under the name Kaisaniemi metro station.

Wikipedia: Verkosto (taideteos) (FI), Website

Varsapuistikko is located in Helsinki, in a triangle between Kaisaniemenkatu, Yrjö-Koskisen katu and Unioninkatu, near the Forest House. It was once part of Kaisaniemi Park, but was separated from it when Kaisaniemenkatu was built through the park. The park takes its name from Emil Cedercreutz's sculpture Mother's Love, completed in 1928, which depicts a horse foal and its dam.

Wikipedia: Varsapuistikko (FI)

Kaisaniemi Botanical Garden is located in the Kluuvi district of Helsinki, in an area called Kaisaniemi. Along with the Kumpula Botanical Garden, it is one of the two botanical gardens of the University of Helsinki. In addition to the Botanical Museum, both gardens belong to the Botany Unit of the Finnish Museum of Natural History, headed by Docent Marko-Tapio Hyvärinen. Botanical gardens maintain a scientific collection of living plants for research and educational purposes.

Wikipedia: Kaisaniemen kasvitieteellinen puutarha (FI), Website

Kaisaniemi park is a popular park, in the center of Helsinki, in the region of Kluuvi. The Kaisaniemi Park was named after Catharina "Cajsa" Wahllund. Part of the park was given to the University of Helsinki in 1829, for gardening. The oldest greenhouse was opened in 1889.

Wikipedia: Kaisaniemi Park (EN)

The Curtain or Ida Aalberg Memorial is a bronze sculpture by Raimo Utriainen dedicated to actress Ida Aalberg in Helsinki's Kaisaniemi Park, behind the Finnish National Theatre, in front of the Small Stage. The sculpture, which rises to a height of nine meters, was unveiled in 1972. It depicts, suggestively, a pleated curtain on the stage.

Wikipedia: Esirippu (veistos) (FI), Website

The Finnish National Theatre, established in 1872, is a theatre located in central Helsinki on the northern side of the Helsinki Central Railway Station Square. The Finnish National Theatre is the oldest Finnish speaking professional theatre in Finland. It was known as the Finnish Theatre until 1902, when it was renamed the Finnish National Theatre.

Wikipedia: Finnish National Theatre (EN), Website

The Aleksis Kivi Memorial is a statue dedicated to the Finnish author Aleksis Kivi (1834–1872), designed and sculpted by Wäinö Aaltonen.

Wikipedia: Aleksis Kivi Memorial (EN), Website

The Blue Straight is a work by visual artist Kimmo Kaivanto at Tampere Hall in Tampere. The work was completed at the same time as the building in 1990.

Wikipedia: Sininen suora (FI), Website

Lyhdynkantajat is a group of sculptures at the main entrance to the Helsinki Central Station in Helsinki, Finland. The sculptures were designed by Emil Wikström and completed in 1914. Lyhdynkantajat is part of the façade of the Art Nouveau station designed by Eliel Saarinen.

Wikipedia: Lyhdynkantajat (EN), Website

Metro Lines is a painting by Jouko Christiansson at the Railway Square metro station in Helsinki. The work is placed at the top of the station's escalator. It was unveiled on October 30, 1985. The work won the general competition held to find a work of art for the station.

Wikipedia: Metrolinjat (taideteos) (FI), Website

One is a semi-abstract sculpture designed by Björn Weckström, in which two human figures embrace each other. The sculpture was donated by HYY Group on Flora Day 2018 to the Student Union of the University of Helsinki to celebrate its 150th anniversary.

Wikipedia: Yhdessä (veistos) (FI)

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.

Wikipedia: Three Smiths Statue (EN), Website

Ylioppilasteatteri is a professionally run amateur theatre operating in Helsinki, founded in 1926 under the name of the Academic Drama Society. It changed its name to the Student Theatre in the early 1930s.

Wikipedia: Ylioppilasteatteri (FI), Website

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.

Wikipedia: Amos Rex (EN), Website

The J. K. Paasikivi Memorial, also called Itä ja Länsi is a memorial sculpture for the Finnish president Juho Kusti Paasikivi by the sculptor Harry Kivijärvi, located in Kamppi, Helsinki. The sculpture is located at Paasikivenaukio Square along Mannerheimintie in front of the so-called Supplier House, north of the Lasipalatsi building. The sculpture was revealed in 1980.

Wikipedia: J. K. Paasikivi memorial (EN), Website

A bronze equestrian statue of Field Marshal Gustaf Mannerheim stands in the centre of Helsinki, Finland. It was made by Aimo Tukiainen and erected in 1960.

Wikipedia: Equestrian statue of Marshal Mannerheim (EN), Website

The Kiasman of the Museum of Contemporary Art was designed by US architect Steven Holl, who won the museum's architectural competition in 1993.

Wikipedia: Kiasma (rakennus) (FI), Website

Töölönlahdenpuisto Park is a public park located on the southern shore of Töölönlahti Bay in the centre of Helsinki. It borders Hesperianpuisto Park to the west, the main railway line to the east and Töölönlahdenkatu to the south. The park was completed in summer 2016 on the site of the former Töölö freight rail yard, a few years after the Helsinki Harbour Railway and VR's warehouses had been demolished. Töölönlahti Park, as well as the Zoo area north of Töölönlahti Bay, can be counted as part of Helsinki Central Park.

Wikipedia: Töölönlahden puisto (FI)

A natural history museum or museum of natural history is a scientific institution with natural history collections that include current and historical records of animals, plants, fungi, ecosystems, geology, paleontology, climatology, and more.

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Helsinki Art Museum, abbreviated as HAM, is an art museum in Helsinki, Finland. It is located in Tennispalatsi in the district of Kamppi. The museum reopened after renovations and rebranding in 2015.

Wikipedia: Helsinki Art Museum (EN), Website

Gekko is a spatial work created by ceramic artist Pekka Paikkari, Kristiina Riska and Kati Tuominen-Niittylä at Kamppi metro station in Helsinki. The work is covered with ceramic tiles, shaped like a concrete protective cover for escalators. The metro escalator tube goes from Kamppi's street-level central lobby through the long-distance bus terminal down to the metro station. The diameter of the pipe is about four meters, and it holds about 275 square meters of ceramics. Gekko graduated in 2005.

Wikipedia: Gekko (taideteos) (FI), Website

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.

Wikipedia: Kamppi Chapel (EN), Website

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.

Wikipedia: Lapinlahden puistikko (FI)

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.

Wikipedia: Lastenlehto (FI)

Akseli Gallen-Kallela was a Finnish painter who is best known for his illustrations of the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic. His work is considered a very important aspect of the Finnish national identity. He finnicized his name from Gallén to Gallen-Kallela in 1907.

Wikipedia: Akseli Gallen-Kallela (EN)

Zacharias Topelius was a Finnish author, poet, journalist, historian, and rector of the University of Helsinki who wrote novels related to Finnish history. He wrote his works exclusively in Swedish, although they were translated early on into Finnish.

Wikipedia: Zachris Topelius (EN)

Tove Marika Jansson was a Finnish author, novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author of Swedish descent. Brought up by artistic parents, Jansson studied art from 1930 to 1938 in Helsinki, Stockholm, and Paris. She held her first solo art exhibition in 1943. Over the same period, she penned short stories and articles for publication, and subsequently drew illustrations for book covers, advertisements, and postcards. She continued her work as an artist and writer for the rest of her life.

Wikipedia: Tove Jansson (EN)

Eva Aurora Charlotta Karamzin was a Finnish philanthropist. Her better-known names are Princess Aurora Demidova and Aurora Karamzin, titles that were acquired after her first and second marriages, respectively.

Wikipedia: Aurora Karamzin (EN)

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.

Wikipedia: Johan Vilhelm Snellman (EN)

The Church of the Prophet Elijah in Helsinki or Cemetery Church is an Orthodox church in the Orthodox cemetery in Helsinki. The church was designed by architect Ivan Kudriavzev and completed in 1958.

Wikipedia: Helsingin pyhän Eliaan kirkko (FI), Website