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Lappeenranta Art Museum

Museums & Art Centres
Lappeenranta Art Museum is home to a collection of Finnish art from the mid-19th century to the present day. The museum’s collection of old Finnish art includes works by many well-known artists such as Albert Edelfelt, Pekka Halonen, Tyko Sallinen, Hjalmar Munsterhjelm and Eero Järnefelt.

The collection has paintings by artists who were active in Vyborg or were born there.

The contemporary art collections on the other hand focus in particular on art from south-east Finland, and include paintings by Leena Luostarinen, Unto Ahjotuli, Anne Tompuri, Irmeli Tarmo, Eeva Vesterinen, Heimo Suntio and Sinikka Kurkinen , etc.

The Lappeenranta Art Museum is, together with the South Karelia Museum, the Cavalry Museum and Wolkoff House Museum, part of the Lappeenranta Museums, run by the City.

Except for the Wolkoff House museum, they are all located in the Fortress of Lappeenranta, in the old barracks and warehouses along Kristiinankatu.

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Lappeenranta Art Museum

Kristiinankatu 8-10
53900 Lappeenranta
Finland