The Museum of Contempory Art Kiasma has only been open ten years. We loved it. There were exhibits in there which we understood. "I don`t quite get it" was the theme of the exhibition but we think we did, well anyway we had great fun dancing in front of the kaleidoscope screen of "mirror xx" as you can see below.
The Ateneum Art gallery was different again and we were lucky enough to see an exhibition by Pekka Halonen (finished that weekend). He was taught Art as a student in that very building before it became an Art gallery.
The Temppaliaukion Church is built into solid rock with the surface of the inner walls unfinished
The Uspenski Cathedral with its 13 onion domes is a Russian Orthodox church housing some beautiful paintings but also some very garish ones.. I wasn`t sure if I liked it, though husb did.
The heart of the city is Senate Square, very impressive. It is surrounded by Government Palace, the University, the Cathedral of St Nicholas(perfect place for a peck) and the highly thought of Library building.
All that was needed to complete our day was a nip into Helsinki`s largest department store, Stockmann`s, for 3 pink crayons for my colouring. Great day.
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