Serlachius Manor
Art museum in the Joenniemi manor house and a timber pavilion of 2014, beside Lake Melasjärvi.
The industrialist Gösta Serlachius built the manor house at Joenniemi outside Mänttä in 1935 to a design by Jarl Eklund, and it later became the home of the art collection he had assembled for the foundation that bears his name. The holdings run from Finnish golden age painting, including major works by Akseli Gallen-Kallela and Hugo Simberg, to European old masters and a Monet, and form one of the largest private art collections in the Nordic countries.
In 2014 the museum gained a large extension beside the manor, won in an international competition by the Barcelona practice MX_SI. Built from pine laid in a lattice of tapering frames, the pavilion holds the main temporary exhibition galleries, a restaurant and a shop, and opens along its length towards Lake Melasjärvi. An art sauna was added in the grounds in 2022. The manor keeps a display of classic works, and one ticket also admits visitors to the Serlachius Headquarters museum in the town.
Highlights
- Timber pavilion of 2014 by MX_SI beside the 1935 Joenniemi manor
- Gösta Serlachius collection of Finnish golden age and European painting
- Works by Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Hugo Simberg and Claude Monet
- Lakeside grounds with an art sauna opened in 2022
