South Karelia Art Museum, Lappeenranta, Finland

The Art Museum is located at the neoclassic-style barracks (built in 1798) of the Lappeenranta fortress. The museum has a collection of Finnish visual art from the 1850´s to the present day. This collection includes works by many well-known artists such as Arvi Liljelund, Pekka Halonen, Tyko Sallinen, Hjalmar Munsterhjelm and Jalmari Ruokokoski.

The main emphasis of research and collections is on the Kymi province and the region of the ceded Karelia (Vyborg). There are also some temporary exhibitions.

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aSr0 _chan (2 years ago)
Lovely art it was really beautiful

Vadim Zherdev (2 years ago)
Modern art mostly, make sure you want it

heikki paulaharju (4 years ago)
Smallish art gallery with some older and contemporary Finnish artists. Good quality art gallery. Pay a visit and have a coffee in a coffeeshop nearby.

Ladys Journey (5 years ago)
Beautifull place

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