Helsinki City Art Museum
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Helsinki City Art Museum or Helsinki Art Museum is an art museum
in Helsinki
, Finland
. It has exhibitions in two main locations: Meilahti Art Museum in Meilahti
, near Tamminiemi, and the Tennis Palace Art Museum (Tennispalatsi) near the city centre. The museum also manages the Kluuvi Gallery.
Museum
A museum is an institution that cares for a collection of artifacts and other objects of scientific, artistic, cultural, or historical importance and makes them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. Most large museums are located in major cities...
in Helsinki
Helsinki
Helsinki is the capital and largest city in Finland. It is in the region of Uusimaa, located in southern Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, an arm of the Baltic Sea. The population of the city of Helsinki is , making it by far the most populous municipality in Finland. Helsinki is...
, Finland
Finland
Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
. It has exhibitions in two main locations: Meilahti Art Museum in Meilahti
Meilahti
Meilahti is a neighbourhood of Helsinki between Mannerheimintie and a bay named Seurasaarenselkä. Most of the houses in Meilahti were built in the 1930s and 1940s. Meilahti is home to over 6700 people including the President of Finland Tarja Halonen who lives on the shore in the President's...
, near Tamminiemi, and the Tennis Palace Art Museum (Tennispalatsi) near the city centre. The museum also manages the Kluuvi Gallery.