Visavuori Museum

Visavuori Museum got its name from the name of the place where it is located, namely, in the south of Finland, 45 km. from the city of Tampere, in the town of Valkeakoski. The house-museum was built in 1894 on the banks of the Vanaya River in a beautiful place surrounded by pine trees, according to the project of the famous Finnish sculptor and architect Emil Wickström in Europe. The most famous works of Wickström are the relief on the pediment of the House of Estates in Helsinki, which depicts the Russian Emperor Alexander I, and the relief on the facade of the railway station of the capital of Finland in the form of twins with harsh facial expressions, with lamps of hands.

In 1896, the first apartment building in Visavuori burned down, and Wickstern in 1902 built a new, nationally romantic style. The two-storey studio house with a winter garden and an observatory tower was built in 1903 and became the sculptor’s favorite workplace. Subsequently, a pavilion appeared, in which the grandson of Wickstern cartoonist Kari Suomalainen worked.

After the death of the owner, the house became a house-museum and is still open to tourists. The studio exhibits the works of the sculptor, there is also a cafe and a souvenir shop. In the nearby pavilion you can see about 9 thousand political cartoons of Suomlainen, and his drawings, there are also shifting exhibitions.