Ateneum Museum
Helsinki, Kaivokatu 2 (Kaivokatu)
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The Ateneum Museum is the central art museum of Finland. Located on Rautatientor Square, opposite Helsinki Central Station. The Ateneum Art Museum in Helsinki, named after the goddess Athena, is the largest collection of paintings, graphics and sculptures in Finland.
The opening of the museum took place in 1887, the museum building itself in the Neo-Renaissance style.
In the collections of the museum there are more than 6000 artists, including such masters as Francisco Goya, Edgar Degas, Paul Cezanne. And there are also paintings of Russian painters in the Ateneum: landscapes by Ivan Shishkin, Vasily Polenov and Isaac Levitan, graphic works by Marc Chagall.
The second part of the museum, the Finnish National Gallery, houses works by Finnish and Western European masters from 1960 to the present day.
Tickets cost 15 euros, for visitors under 18 years of age admission is free. The Art Museum regularly hosts exhibitions of foreign artists.