Gallen-Kallela Museum

The Gallen-Kallela Museum, located in Tarvaspää, , , and built between 1911 and 1913 was a home and studio for Finnish painter Akseli Gallen-Kallela. The atelier building has been a museum since 1961.
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  • Type: Museum
  • Description: art museum in Espoo, Finland
  • Also known as: Akseli Gallen-Kallela Museum” and “Tarvaspää
  • Address: Gallen-Kallelan tie 27, Espoo, 02600

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Vermo and Mäkkylä railway station.

Sports venue
is the largest harness racing track in . The track was opened in 1977. It is located in the district of , but is officially regarded as the racecourse of the neighbouring . is situated 1 km north of Gallen-Kallela Museum.

Railway station
Photo: Skorpion87, Public domain.
Mäkkylä is a station on the VR commuter rail network, between the cities of and in . It is situated between and and is about nine kilometres northwest of Helsinki Central railway station. is situated 1½ km north of Gallen-Kallela Museum.

Photo: Migro, Public domain.
is situated 1½ km northwest of Gallen-Kallela Museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Talinranta and Perkkaa.

Quarter
is a neighbourhood in of , . It is located west from and south from . In south, Finnish national road 1 separates from .

Quarter
is a neigbhourhood in the district of in , . On New Year 2017 the population of the neighbourhood was 3836. The name of the neighbourhood comes from the Bergans farm that used to be located in the area.

Quarter
is a neighbourhood located in district of Western , . As of 2008, has 1,078 inhabitants living in an area of 1.01 km2. The race track hosted the steeplechase eventing equestrian competition for the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Gallen-Kallela Museum

Latitude
60.20646° or 60° 12′ 23″ north
Longitude
24.83893° or 24° 50′ 20″ east
Inception
1913
Open location code
9GG66R4Q+HH
Open­Street­Map ID
way 29421642
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Wiki­data ID
Q1636905
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Swedish—“Gallen-Kallela Museum” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: 加伦-卡勒拉博物馆
  • Dutch: Gallen-Kallela Museum
  • Dutch: Tarvaspää
  • Egyptian Arabic: متحف جالن كاليلا
  • Estonian: Gallen-Kallela muuseum
  • Finnish: Akseli Gallen-Kallelan Museo
  • Finnish: Gallen-Kallelan museo
  • Finnish: Gallen-Kallelan Museo
  • Finnish: Tarvaspää
  • French: Tarvaspää
  • German: Gallen-Kallela-Museum
  • German: Tarvaspää
  • Inari Sami: Gallen-Kallela-museo
  • Northern Sami: Gallen-Kallela-musea
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Gallen-Kallela Museum
  • Romanian: Tarvaspaa
  • Romanian: Tarvaspää
  • Russian: Музей Галлен-Каллела
  • Skolt Sami: Gallen-Kallela-muʹzei
  • Slovenian: Gallen-Kallelan Museo
  • Slovenian: Gallen-Kallelanov muzej
  • Swedish: Gallen-Kallela museet
  • Swedish: Gallen-Kallela Museet

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Highlights include Läntinen Tarvonsilta and Vermonpuisto.

Nearby Places

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Gallen-Kallela Museum”. Photo: Tuppence1, CC BY-SA 3.0.