« We hope that our museum will remain the home of everything beautiful: art, architecture, nature and music and that it will give others as much joy as it has given us »
– Marie-Louise and Gunnar Didrichsen, 1968
Pictured: The Didrichsen family in Villa Didrichsen's library
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MUSEUM, ARCHITECTURE, SCULPTURE PARK
The Didrichsen Art Museum was born out of the love for art. The modern building was designed by architect Viljo Revell and it is located by the sea on Kuusisaari island in western Helsinki. The museum is surrounded by a sculpture park that is open for public during the museum's operating hours.
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ON THE WORLD’S SHORE
REIDAR SÄRESTÖNIEMI 100 YEARS
8.2.–1.6.2025
The exhibition celebrating the 100th anniversary of the artist's birth explores Särestöniemi's art from the perspective of his relationship with nature. The focus is on identifying and living side by side with nature and on environmental conservation. He felt being one with nature, merging with the fells and the fens and transforming himself into a willow ptarmigan or a lynx.
For Särestöniemi, the connection with nature was an exploration of the self. The cycle of the seasons is strongly present in his works – by painting, the artist celebrated the joy of spring on the one hand and defended himself against the dark winter on the other.
Listen to the podcast episode The Last Wolf – the life and art of Reidar Särestöniemi >
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On the World’s Shore – Reidar Särestöniemi 100 years 8.2.–1.6.2025
Opening hours
Tue–Sun 10–18
Mon closed
We recommend using public transport >
Public introductions to the exhibition in English on the first Saturday of each month at 12 noon.
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DIDRICHSEN ART MUSEUM
Kuusilahdenkuja 1
00340, Helsinki
010 2193 970 / office(at)didrichsenmuseum.fi