Collections

Photo: GKM / Tuukka Uusitalo

The Gallen-Kallela Museum is a museum of art history and cultural history. Its collections tell of the life of the artist and influential cultural figure Akseli Gallen-Kallela, from his artistic creativity to world travel and from contemporary events and phenomena to family life.

Welcome to the collections of the Gallen-Kallela Museum.

 

Art collection

Akseli Gallen-Kallela: Pilviä järven yllä. 1904. Gallen-Kallelan Museo. Kuva: Gallen-Kallelan Museo / Douglas Sivén

Akseli Gallen-Kallela: Clouds above a Lake. 1904. The Gallen-Kallela Museum. Photo: The Gallen-Kallela Museum / Douglas Sivén

 

The cultural-historical collection

Gallen-Kallelan keräämiä esineitä: tuohivirsut. Gallen-Kallelan Museo. Kuva: Gallen-Kallelan Museo / Jukka Paavola.

Items collected by Gallen-Kallela: Birch bark Shoes. The Gallen-Kallela Museum. Photo: The Gallen-Kallela Museum / Jukka Paavola.

 

Working collection

I. K. Inha: Saimaan kanava, 1893. Uusi vedos Gallen-Kallelan Museon käyttökokoelmassa.

I. K. Inha: Saimaa canal, 1893. New print in the working collection of the Gallen-Kallela Museum.