Athenaeum Museum

Athenaeum Museum - the central art museum in Finland. Rautatientori metro station is located on the square, opposite Helsinki Central Station. Ateneum Art Museum in Helsinki, named in honor of the goddess Athena - the largest in Finland's collection of paintings, drawings and sculptures. The museum was opened in 1887, the building itself is a museum in the neo-Renaissance style. The museum's collection of more than 6,000 artists, including masters such as Francisco Goya, Edgar Degas, Paul Cezanne. And also Immersed in the Athenaeum and paintings by Russian artists: landscapes by Ivan Shishkin, Vasily Polenov and Isaac Levitan, graphic works by Marc Chagall. The second part of the museum - Finnish National Gallery - keeps the work of Finnish and Western European masters of the period from 1960 to the present day.