Temporary Exhibitions

Risen from the Ashes,

The Church of St. Olaf in Tyrvää

12.5.2010 - 12.9.2010

Kuutti Lavonen's and Osmo Rauhala's paintings at the Church of Saint Olaf in Tyrvää.
Photo: Ville Heinonen

The exhibition presents the restoration and reconstruction of the church after it had been destroyed by the arson fire 21 September 1997. This project involved volunteer work that aroused considerable attention and interest.

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The exhibition Risen from the Ashes, The Church of Saint Olaf in Tyrvää  is on display on the ground floor of the museum, between 12 May 2010 and 12 September 2010.

The artists’s sketches  and drawings for the paintings in the Church are on display at the exhibition Kuutti Lavonen – Osmo Rauhala, Sketches for works in the Church of St. Olaf in Tyrvää on the first floor of the museum until 12 September 2010. Read more

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Kuutti Lavonen – Osmo Rauhala,
Sketches for works in the Church of St. Olaf in Tyrvää
26 March 2010 - 12 September 2010

Simon of Cyrene Helps Christ Carry the Cross, Kuutti Lavonen. Photo: Rauno Träskelin.

Grace, Osmo Rauhala. Photo: Ville Heinonen.

This exhibition displays studies and sketches by Kuutti Lavonen and Osmo Rauhala for the Church of Saint Olaf in Tyrvää. The artists carried out the painted decoration of the church interior in the years 2004 –2009 in their own contemporary manner. This bold decision has received many prizes.

The second part of the exhibition Risen from the Ashes, The Church of Saint Olaf in Tyrvää opened on the ground floor of the museum on 12 May 2010. It presents the restoration and reconstruction of the church after it had been destroyed by the arson fire 21 September 1997. This project involved volunteer work that aroused considerable attention and interest.

Read more about the exhibition

For more information, please contact:
Director General Helena Edgren, tel. (09) 4050 9547 helena.edgren(at)nba.fi, and Exhibition Secretary Hanna Forssell, tel. (09) 4050 9553 hanna.forssell(at)nba.fi

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The exhibition Kuutti Lavonen – Osmo Rauhala, Sketches for works in the Church of St. Olaf in Tyrvää is on display in rooms 127-130 on the first floor of the museum, between 26 March 2010 and 12 September 2010.

The second part of the exhibition Risen from the Ashes, The Church of Saint Olaf in Tyrvää  is on display on the ground floor of the museum, between 12 May 2010 and 12 September 2010.

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WANTED – ARMFELT
An officer in the service of a king and an emperor

National Museum of Finland 20.11.2009 - 30.1.2011

G. M. Armfelt at the age of 44, painted by Joseph Grassi in Dresden 1799-1801.
Photo: The National Board of Antiquities / Markku Haverinen.

Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt (1757–1814) is one of the most colourful characters of Finnish history. His fate led him from the battlefields and the courts of Europe to exile in a dismal small town in South Russia. He was also one of the best-known Finns of his time, whose achievements were followed in newspapers in Stockholm and Paris alike. He was a favourite of King Gustav III of Sweden, and in the early 1810s he gained the confidence and trust of Emperor Alexander I of Russia.

The collection of over a hundred personal items owned by G. M. Armfelt provide a glimpse of the world that surrounded him, in Stockholm, in exile in Italy, banished to Kaluga in Russia, as the Swedish minister to the Court of Vienna, and at his home manor of Joensuu in Halikko, Southwest Finland.

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For more information about the exhibition, please contact:
Curator Mr. Jouni Kuurne, tel. + 358 (0)9 4050 9310 during office hours, e-mail: jouni.kuurne (at) nba.fi
Exhibition Secretary Ms. Hanna Forssell, tel. + 358 (0)9 4050 9553 during office hours, e-mail: hanna. forssell (at) nba.fi

Bookings for guided tours, Tue-Fri 9 a.m. - 12 Noon, tel. + 358 (0)9 4050 9552.

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The exhibition "Wanted – Armfelt. An Officer in the Service of a King and an Emperor" is on display in rooms 132-131 on the first floor of the museum, between 20.11.2009 and 30.1.2011.

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