Finnish National Gallery ( Finnish : Suomen Kansallisgalleria , Swedish : Finlands Nationalgalleri ) is the largest art museum institution of Finland . It consists of the Ateneum , an art museum; Kiasma , a contemporary art museum; and the Sinebrychoff Art Museum , a historic house and art museum.
12-701: The organization's functions are supported by the conservation department, the administration and services department and Kehys, the art museum development department. On January 27, 1846, the Finnish Art Society was established. In 1848, it established the Helsinki Drawing School and in 1852, the organization took over Turku Drawing School. In the 19th century, the organization's collections grew through donations. In 1893, Victor Hoving [ sv ] , Herman Antell [ fi ] , and Karl Emanuel Jannsson made significant contributions to
24-579: A Finnish building or structure is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki The Academy of Fine Arts ( Finnish : Kuvataideakatemia ; Swedish : Bildkonstakademin ) in Helsinki , Finland is part of the University of the Arts Helsinki and provides the highest university-level theoretical and practical training in the country in fine arts . The Academy
36-596: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . List of universities in Finland This is a list of the universities in Finland . Institutions of higher education are designated as universities by Finnish legislation. Only universities have the right to confer degrees in the categories of alempi korkeakoulututkinto/lägre högskoleexamen (bachelor's degree) and ylempi korkeakoulututkinto/högre högskoleexamen (master's degree) and doctoral degrees. In addition to
48-558: The Elder, Jurgen Ovens, Frans Wouters, Hieronymous Francken the Second, Joshua Reynolds, Antoine Watteau, François Boucher, Carl Von Breda, Alexander Roslin, and Jacob Bjorck. It has an appreciable collection of Swedish miniatures. 60°10′18″N 24°56′13″E / 60.1717°N 24.9369°E / 60.1717; 24.9369 This article about a museum in Finland is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about
60-597: The Finnish National Gallery reorganized as a public foundation that operates the Ateneum Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, and Sinebrychoff Art Museum as museum units. The mission of the Finnish National Gallery is to further the cultural heritage of Finnish visual arts , to enforce the significance of visual culture in contemporary times, and to develop the art museum industry. They also maintain and develop Finland's largest collection of art and
72-563: The Winter War. The Ateneum art collection reopened in 1946 and was renamed the Ateneum Art Museum in 1958. The Sinebrychoff Museum reopened in 1960. In 1990, the Finnish National Gallery was established to manage the collection. That same year, the Museum of Contemporary Art was founded. In 1996, construction of a building for the Museum of Contemporary Art began and in 1998, the Kiasma opened. In 2014,
84-484: The knowledge and research archives of their field. The Ateneum is a predominantly Finnish Art Museum with paintings by leading Finnish painters like Albert Edelfelt , Eero Järnefelt , Helene Schjerfbeck , Pekka Halonen , Hugo Simberg , Akseli Gallen-Kallela , and Fanny Churberg . The Sinebrychoff Art Museum has foreign paintings by painters such as Giovanni Boccati, Giovanni Castiglione, Govaert Flinck, Rembrandt, Jan Cook, Goyen, Carl Wilhelm de Hamilton, Lucas Cranach
96-658: The organization. The Ateneum building was completed in the spring of 1887 and the Finnish Art Society's operations were moved there. In 1921, Paul and Fanny Sinebrychoff donated approximately 900 works to the Society, creating the basis of what would become the Sinebrychoff Museum . In 1939, the Fine Arts Academy of Finland was established. That same year, the Ateneum art collection and Sinebrychoff Museum were closed due to
108-421: The same names as those conferred by Finnish (normal) universities, i.e. bachelor's and master's degrees. The Finnish universities are (sorted by the year of establishment): In Finland, there are a few institutions of higher education that have full university status, but which specialize in certain academic fields: The National Defence University is not considered a university by Finnish law, although it has
120-563: The universities, Finland has another, separate system of tertiary education consisting of the ammattikorkeakoulus/yrkeshögskolas , which used to be translated as polytechnics but now call themselves universities of applied sciences according to international usage (see the list of polytechnics in Finland ). The universities of applied sciences have the right to confer degrees in the categories of ammattikorkeakoulututkinto/yrkeshögskoleexamen and ylempi ammattikorkeakoulututkinto/högre yrkeshögskoleexamen . In international usage, these degrees have
132-581: Was raised to university level . 3.5 years of full-time study leads to the degree of Bachelor of Fine Arts, and completing the Master's degree takes two further years. In the academic year 2012-2013 the number of students was about 280. The Academy of Fine Arts is located at Sörnäisten rantatie 19 in the neighbourhood of Sörnäinen . 60°11′48″N 24°56′52″E / 60.19667°N 24.94778°E / 60.19667; 24.94778 This Finnish university, college or other education institution article
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#1732851064858144-457: Was founded in 1848 by a private foundation called The Art Society of Finland (or Finnish Art Society, or Finnish Art Association) (fi: Suomen Taideyhdistys ). At that time the academy was called a Drawing School. In 1939 it became The Finnish Art Academy School (fi: Suomen Taideakatemian koulu ). In 1985 it became The Academy of Fine Arts. In the beginning of 1993 the status of the Academy
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