The Tikanoja Art Museum
Hovioikeudenpuistikko 4
65100 Vaasa Finland
Phone +358 6 325 3916
Fax +358 6 325 3918
Personnel
(Tikanoja Art Museum & Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art)
E-mail: firstname.lastname@vaasa.fi
Museum Director Katarina Andersson
tel.
+358 6 325 3780
Curator Riina Peltonen
tel.
+358 6 325 3928
mobile +358 40 353 7377
Educational Curator Jenni Niemi
mobile +358 40 356 4870
Press Officer Pauliina Pääkkönen
tel.
+358 6 325 3924
Museum Service Assistant (Museum Shop) Maiju Nyqvist-Alho
tel. + 358 40 183 1288
Museum Secretary Heli Stenbacka
tel.
+358 6 325 3923
Museum Assistant Anniina Pääkkönen
tel. +358 6 325 3917
Technical Staff
Juhani Pukkinen
mobile +358 40 520 3564
Matti Raudaskoski
mobile +358 40 520 3563
Joona Ekroos
mobile +358 400 789 888
Closed on Mondays
Tuesday—Saturday:
11 AM to 4 PM
Sunday: 12 AM — 5 PM
Welcome!
Tikanoja Art Museum is the previous home of Mr. Frithjof Tikanoja (1877-1964), a well known businessman in Vaasa. Mr. Tikanoja had fallen in love with fine arts in the late 1910s and immediately started collecting paintings and drawings. The art museum was founded when Mr. Tikanoja donated his art collection to the city in 1951.
The Tikanoja collection is especially famous for its international section containing works e.g. by Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso. The collection also includes Finnish art from the 19th and 20th centuries. Traditional masters, such as Albert Edelfelt, Axel Gallen-Kallela, Maria Wiik and Tyko Sallinen are included in the collection as well as younger artists.
Mr. Tikanoja also acted as a patron for the painter Eemu Myntti. His art in the 1920s was against the traditional and widely accepted Finnish art policy because he enjoyed working in the French expressionistic style.
The Tikanoja Art Museum arranges several exhibitions annually, based on both national and international themes of interest. The Art Museum is also the location for chamber concerts.
Exhibitions 2011-2012:
Nándor Mikola (1911–2006) 100th Jubilee Exhibition
27 November 2011 – 15 April 2012 at the Tikanoja Art Museum
One hundred years ago the visual artist and famous watercolour painter Nándor Mikola (1911-2006) was born in Hungary. In the 1930’s he moved to Finland and lived his life in city of Vaasa.
This year city of Vaasa celebrates the event with two exhibitions: The 100th Jubileum Exhibition at the Tikanoja Art Museum (until 15th April 2012) and the exhibition Nándor Mikola 1911-2006 at the Nándor Mikola’s Watercolour Hall (until 26 February 2012).
Retrospective exhibition is presenting over 50 works from the early period, 1950’s until recent paintings from 2005. Mikola, who rather painted with his heart than his mind, found most of his inspiration in the colors and forms of nature, in the rhythm of the landscape and in light and shade. His works can be seen as representations of personal experiences.