Valoa ja kuvia Pyynikinlinnan kokoelmasta 21.10.2023-11.2.2024
Opening hours and admission fees
Museum is closed 6.12.2023 and 18.12.2023-9.1.2024.
Open: Wed 12.00–18.00, Sat-Sun 12.00–16.00. During summer (1.6.–31.8.) also Thursdays 12.00–16.00.
Entry to the museum: 3€ / 2€ / Museum Card. Guided tours are available in Finnish, English, Swedish, German, Italian, French, Spanish and Russian. Contact: pyynikinlinna@pyynikinlinna.julkaisut.fi
Permanent exhibitions
Emil Aaltonen Museum of industry and art was opened in Pyynikinlinna on 8.6.2004. The main floor houses works from Emil Aaltonen’s art collection. Upstairs we have other permanent exhibitions: exhibition about Emil Aaltonen (1869-1949), exhibitions about the Aaltonen owned companies, multimedia about the Aaltonen owned Ylikartano mansion and a room where you can watch a movie about the life of Emil Aaltonen. Temporary exhibitions are located upstairs.
Contact information
Emil Aaltonen Museum
tel. 03 212 4551
e-mail: pyynikinlinna@pyynikinlinna.julkaisut.fi
Museum director: Mika Törmä
tel. +358 50 431 4135
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Former exhibitions:
Muovi – Eilen, tänään, huomenna 22.4.2023 – 8.10.2023
Susanna Majuri: Sense of Water 20.1.2023-2.4.2023
Jouko Lehtola: Rock-Finlandia 17.9.2022-18.12.2022
Feelin’ Relaxed – Naivist Art from the Collections of the Oulu Museum of Art 19.3.2022–28.8.2022. (Exception: 18.5.2022 Wed 12.00-16.00.)
Nanso 100 – 4.9.2021–27.2.2022
150 years of Emil Aaltonen 29.8.2019–1.12.2019
On 29 August 2019, we celebrate the 150th anniversary of the industrialist Emil Aaltonen. The jubilee exhibition has its focus on the different aspects of Emil Aaltonen’s character.
“The dark blood of Aaltonen does not glow on the surface, heating up beneath the calm surface like fire in the tar pit. But the warmth and its influence are still as effective.” This was the way Suomen Kuvalehti, a Finnish magazine, described Emil Aaltonen when this man of honorary titles turned 70 years in 1939.
This factory owner was known as a demanding employer in Tampere, but also as a person with a deep belief in fairness. In both work and private life, Emil Aaltonen’s guiding principle was service; another person’s well-being was also about his well-being. Aaltonen also wanted to challenge himself constantly: “Life is battle, it is battle with oneself and one’s tendencies. Winning yourself is the greatest victory.”
The Other Self – Paintings by Raimo Utriainen 26.5.2019–11.8.2019
Raimo Utriainen (1927–1994), the sculptor, is best known for his constructivist sculptures made of thin metal slats placed together in a mathematical style. The peaceful forms of his abstract works as well as their surfaces that vibrate in the light remind us of natural phenomena. They are not a copy of the visible, however, since they are based on forms and rhythms that exist underneath the surface as building blocks of the visible world. There was also something else about Raimo Utriainen. While working on his most subtle sculptures, he also made large-scale paintings with powerful colours and gestures, often suggestively figurative. This was his way of expressing suppressed emotions that had no space in the ascetic minimalism of his sculptures. The majority of the paintings were made in the 1980s, during the golden era of new expressive painting. Raimo Utriainen was acknowledged as one of the great reformers of modern Finnish sculpture. His canvases, which are both strong and delightful at the same time, sometimes even grotesque, prove that he was on the pulse of the times even when he was painting.
At The Source Of Technical Creativity –Drawings From Lokomo And Sarvis 16.2.–19.5.2019
The exhibition is focused on product development conducted from the 1920s until the 1980s by the steel workshop Lokomo and the plastic factory Sarvis. Innovative and unconventional designing is essential for successful business. It was the emphasis on design that turned both Lokomo and Sarvis into frontrunners in their fields in Finland and abroad. Their product development is presented through drawings, objects, and photos. In addition, we will display scale models of machines manufactured by Lokomo.
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