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 Selma Green
tel.
+358 6 325 3922
mobile +358 40 687 4694
Curator Riina Peltonen (on leave)
substitute Pia Timberg
tel. +358 6 325 3917
mobile +358 40 353 7377
Curator Pamela Andersson
tel. +358 6 325 3927
mobile +358 40 161 9892
Educational Curator Jenni Niemi (on leave until 31.8.2013)
substitute Johanna Kull
mobile +358 40 184 9250
Press Officer Pauliina Pääkkönen
tel. +358 6 325 3924
mobile +358 40 192 3891
Museum Service Assistant (Museum Shop) Maiju Nyqvist-Alho
mobile + 358 40 183 1288
Museum Service Assistant (Guided tours) Salla Piipponen
mobile + 358 40 356 4870
Museum Secretary Heli Stenbacka
tel. +358 6 325 3923
Museum Secretary Anniina Pääkkönen
tel. +358 6 325 3928
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 2013:
DIALOGUES
26 January 2013 – 12 May 2013
at the Tikanoja Art Museum
East and West, inland and coast meet in the DIALOGUES exhibition. Contemporary art from the collections of the Kuopio Art Museum and Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art in Vaasa is brought together in the Tikanoja Art Museum. Artwork from the same artists can be found in both collections. As art from two different museums are set next to each other dialogues and connections between the artworks appear.
ADOLF BOCK AND MARITIME ART
9 June 2013 – 13 October 2013
at the Tikanoja Art Museum
Summer exhibition presents Finnish and international marine art from the end the 19th century to the 1950s. Born in Germany, Adolf Bock (1890-1968) is the most important 20th-century maritime painter in Finland. Main collaborators for the exhibition are Salo Art Museum and the John Nurminen Foundation.
TIINA LEHTIMÄKI
5 May 2013 – 18 Augusti 2013
at the Tikanoja Art Museum