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Kiasma
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Kiasma is a contemporary art museum located on Mannerheimintie in Helsinki, Finland. Its name kiasma, Finnish for chiasma, alludes to the basic conceptual idea of its architect, Steven Holl. Kiasma is part of the Finnish National Gallery, and it is responsible for the gallery's contemporary art collection. Its mission is to showcase contemporary art and celebrate the art od our time.
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It sits within the topics 1998 establishments in Finland, Art museums and galleries established in 1998 and Art museums and galleries in Helsinki.
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Key facts
- Museum.name
- Kiasma
- Museum.image
- Kiasmamodernartmuseum.JPG
- Museum.caption
- The northern side of the Kiasma building
- Museum.map_type
- Finland Helsinki (mainland)#Finland
- Museum.map_caption
- The location of the museum in Helsinki
- Museum.former_name
- Museum of Contemporary Art ()
- Museum.established
- (Museum of Contemporary Art) (opening of Kiasma building)
- Museum.location
- Helsinki, Finland
- Museum.type
- Art museum
- Museum.collections
- Contemporary art
- Museum.visitors
- 295,000 (2017)
- Museum.director
- Leevi Haapala
- Museum.owner
- Finnish National Gallery
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Wikidata facts
- Part of
- Finnish National Gallery
- Country
- Finland
- Located in
- Helsinki
- Headquarters
- Helsinki
- Parent organization
- Finnish National Gallery
- Official website
- kiasma.fi
- Image
- Kiasmamodernartmuseum.JPG
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- architect
- Steven Holl
- Commons category
- Kiasma
- Commons Institution page
- Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma
- inception
- 1990-00-00
- street address
- Mannerheiminaukio 2, 00100 Helsinki
- postal code
- 00100
- social media followers
- 13837
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- History
- Collections
- Gallery
- See also
- Further reading
- References
- External links
Kiasma is a contemporary art museum located on Mannerheimintie in Helsinki, Finland. Its name kiasma, Finnish for chiasma, alludes to the basic conceptual idea of its architect, Steven Holl. Kiasma is part of the Finnish National Gallery, and it is responsible for the gallery's contemporary art collection. Its mission is to showcase contemporary art and celebrate the art od our time.
==History== thumb|150px|Under construction in Autumn 1996 thumb|150px|Nearly complete in Autumn 1997, with the now-demolished VR warehouses on the northern side The contemporary art collection began as the Museum of Contemporary Art () in 1990. In its earliest stages, the collection was housed in Ateneum.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kiasma” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Gallery (8)
On the map
3 mapped locations