Architecture and Design Museum Helsinki
Museum of Finnish design and architecture in Gustaf Nyström's neo-Gothic school building in Ullanlinna.
The museum occupies a red-brick neo-Gothic building on Korkeavuorenkatu in Ullanlinna, designed by Gustaf Nyström and completed in the mid-1890s for a Swedish-language secondary school. The Design Museum moved in during the 1970s, tracing its own institutional roots to a collection of applied arts begun in 1873. The Museum of Finnish Architecture stood a short walk away in Kasarmikatu, and in the mid-2020s the two institutions merged into a single Architecture and Design Museum with a new purpose-built home planned for the South Harbour.
The combined collections cover Finnish industrial design, craft, graphics and fashion alongside architectural drawings, models and photographs, running from the nineteenth century to the present. Alvar and Aino Aalto, Kaj Franck, Tapio Wirkkala, Timo Sarpaneva and Marimekko are all represented. Changing exhibitions occupy the main galleries, and the museum also runs guided tours, workshops and an audio tour covering architectural sites around central Helsinki.
Highlights
- Gustaf Nyström's neo-Gothic former school building of 1895
- Merged collections of the Design Museum and the Museum of Finnish Architecture
- Finnish design from Aalto and Kaj Franck to Marimekko
- Audio tour covering 24 architectural sites in central Helsinki
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