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Outdoor sculptures and environmental art in Turku
Nearly hundred outdoor sculptures and works of environmental art belonging to the Turku City Art Collection decorate Turku’s cityscape. In addition to traditional monuments and representative sculptures, these works of art include participatory modern art and temporary works.
The Turku City Art Collection includes several special collections from different periods of time. The oldest of these is the fine art collection collected by the former Turku Historical Museum, including portraits, medieval sculptures, Turku cityscapes and landscapes illuminating the area’s cultural history. The most significant modern and contemporary art collections are the Wäinö Aaltonen collection and the public art around the city as well as art donated to and acquired by the Turku City Art Collection.
The Turku City Art Collection is expanded by purchase and donation. Art is purchased from exhibitions, artists and private persons. The City Board confirms annually the appropriations for investing in art acquisitions. With this money, works of art are purchased or ordered for new buildings. New art is also collected through donations.
An official record or a committee proposal is drawn up of every art acquisition and confirmed in a meeting of the Culture Committee.
History and principles
The City of Turku has an art collection of over 10 000 works of art. The oldest works are medieval wood sculptures and 17th century portraits that used to belong to the collections of the Turku Historical Museum (1881-1981) and later the Provincial Museum of Turku (1982-2008).
Find full information on the accessibility of the Old Great Square on the turkukaikille.info site.
Have your field trip in Turku!
Welcome to the 18th century and to the oldest wooden house in Turku. On our guided tour you will learn how the gentry lived almost 300 years ago. Who was Pipping, the master of the house?
The museum also houses a 19th century pharmacy. You will learn what pharmacies and medicines were like 150 years ago. What were leeches used for?
Bloodletting and noble life
What is stinking gum? Who needed arsenic? Who had to pay luxury tax? The Qwensel House is much more than a Pharmacy Museum. There is a part of the museum that is over 300 years old and houses an 18th century gentry’s apartment, once occupied by the famous professor of medicine Josef Pipping.
On our guided tour you will find out about 19th century pharmacy business and learn how the gentry lived in the late 18th century.
The tour can be tailored according to the customer’s wishes.
Vision 2020
- We will provide various ways of experiencing Turku.
- We will find new ways of being a museum.
Business idea
We encourage everyone to be curious and get excited about the Turku of the past, of today and of tomorrow. We want to help build a modern Turku with a vibrant and interactive relationship with its unique history, culture and art scene.
The Museum Centre of Turku is also the Regional Museum of Southwest Finland. The main role of the Regional Museum is to provide information about local cultural heritage and to offer expert services to local museums as well as to authorities and private citizens.
The Museum Centre of Turku consists of the museums owned and run by the City of Turku. The Centre is also the Provincial Museum of Southwest Finland.
The Museum Centre is responsible for the city’s cultural, art and natural history museums. It is also responsible for assembling and maintaining object and art collections as well as for promoting the preservation of the cultural environment. The Centre upholds cultural heritage and visual culture. The basis of the Museum Centre is the research and distribution of information through exhibitions and publications.
Reserve a phenomenal workshop in addition to the guided tour!
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND RESERVATIONS
opastilaukset.linna@turku.fi, Tel. +358 (0)2 262 0322
KNIGHTS AND TOURNAMENTS workshop for 1st–4th grade pupils
Price: Entrance fee + Workshop fee 2.50 € / pupil
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The city of Turku accepted the challenge of the City of Oulu and is now participating in the ‘Whole City is Walking’ campaign between 15 and 31 August 2015. In addition to Turku, also Vantaa and our dear rival Tampere have entered the competition.
Through Youth Services young persons can go to Europe to do voluntary service, and European young persons can come to Turku, respectively.
The café is open during the museum’s opening times!
You will find delicious savoury and sweet treats, snacks, meals and other refreshments in the café. In the old-style shop you can buy sweets, games, postcards and artefacts made by craftsmen.
The café is available for hire for conferences and celebrations. The venue sits 50 people and includes a charming yard. Please contact us for more information!
The café-shop Omena ja Kaneli is located in the Kylämäki Village in the main building of the former Vähä-Rasi farm.
The workshop, the Iso-Kohmo house and the old henhouse are wheelchair accessible.
An accessible toilet can be found at the workshop.
There is accessible parking in the café parking lot, on the yard of Iso-Kohmo and by the workshop. To access these parking spaces you need to take Hämeentie to the Kuramäki Village.
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