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| Established | 1887 (1887) |
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| Location |  Helsinki,Finland |
| Coordinates | 60°10′12″N024°56′39″E / 60.17000°N 24.94417°E /60.17000; 24.94417 |
| Type | Art museum |
| Key holdings | The Wounded Angel,Lemminkäinen's Mother,Aino triptych,Raatajat rahanalaiset (Kaski),Street in Auvers-sur-Oise |
| Collection size | 4,300+ paintings, 750+ sculptures |
| Visitors | 400 000 (2012)[1] |
| Director | Marja Sakari (2018–)[2][3] |
| Website | ateneum.fi |
Ateneum is anart museum inHelsinki,Finland and one of the three museums forming theFinnish National Gallery. It is located in the centre of Helsinki on the south side ofRautatientori square close toHelsinki Central railway station. It has the biggest collections of classical art in Finland. Before 1991 the Ateneum building also housed the FinnishAcademy of Fine Arts andUniversity of Art and Design Helsinki.
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The collections of Ateneum include Finnish art extensively from 18th-centuryrococo portraiture to the experimental art movements of the 20th century. The collections also include some 650 international works of art. One of them isVincent van Gogh'sStreet in Auvers-sur-Oise (1890), which when deposited to Ateneum in 1903 made it the first museum collection in the world to include a Vincent van Gogh painting.[4] Other notable works includeAlbert Edelfelt’sThe Luxembourg Garden (1887),Akseli Gallen-Kallela’sAino Triptych (1891),Eero Järnefelt’sUnder the Yoke (Burning the Brushwood) (1893) andHugo Simberg’sThe Wounded Angel (1903).[5][6]
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The Ateneum building was designed byTheodor Höijer and completed in 1887.[7]
The facade of Ateneum is decorated with statues and reliefs which contain a lot of symbols. Above the main entrance, in the second floor, are busts of three famous classical artists: architectBramante, painterRaphael and sculptorPhidias. Above the busts, in the third floor, fourcaryatids support the pediment. These symbolize the four classical art forms: sculpture, painting, geometry, and architecture.[8] The facade culminates in a collage of sculptures in which the Goddess of Art,Pallas Athene, blesses the products of the different art forms. Below the pediment's collage is the Latin phraseConcordia res parvae crescunt (With concord small things increase), which is usually understood in Helsinki to refer to the long-lasting battle of the Finnish art circles in order to establish the museum. All the statues were byCarl Eneas Sjöstrand.[7]
In between the second floor windows are 16 medallion-style reliefs byVille Vallgren representing some of Finland's most well known creative people of his day, including painterAleksander Lauréus,Werner Holmberg and the architectCarl Ludvig Engel. Other ornamental elements were sculpted byMagnus von Wright.[7]
The Ateneum building is owned bySenate Properties (Finnish:Senaatti-kiinteistöt), the government real estate provider.[9]
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