Services
The Gallen-Kallela Museum
Gallen-Kallelan tie 27, 02600 Espoo, Finland
Tel. : +358 9 849 2340, Fax : +358 9 541 6426
e-mail: tarvaspaa(ät)gallen-kallela.fi
Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865-1931), Finland's national artist, designed and built his studio and home at Tarvaspää near Helsinki in 1911-1913. Tarvaspää was opened to the public as the Gallen-Kallela Museum in 1961.
The collections of the Gallen-Kallela Museum present the artist's rich and varied oeuvre: paintings, drawings, graphics, sculpture, posters, photographs and works of applied art, in addition to his personal effects and documents. The museum also tells about Gallen-Kallela's colourful life and friends.
The museum's archives contain an index of Gallen-Kallela's oeuvre, collections of photographs and transparencies, correspondence and press clippings. There is also Gallen-Kallela's family library and the museum foundation's reference library on art of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The archives serve researchers, students and the media, and material is loaned for educational purposes.
Personnel
Museum director
Tuija Wahlroos, (09) 849 23413, tuija.wahlroos(ät)gallen-kallela.fi
Collection manager
Hannele Lampinen, (09) 849 23416, hannele.lampinen(ät)gallen-kallela.fi
Exhibition manager
Minna Turtiainen (until 1.10.2010) (09) 849 23413, minna.turtiainen(ät)gallen-kallela.fi
Museum educator
Reetta Kalajo, (09) 849 23414, reetta.kalajo(ät)gallen-kallela.fi, from 1.1.2008
Museum hostess
Minna Lindfors 09 8492 3411, info(ät)gallen-kallela.fi
Museum attendant
Seppo Haatainen, (09) 849 23412
Open
1 September - 14 May:
Tue.-Sat. 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.; Sun 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.; Mon. closed
15 May - 31 August: Open daily 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Tickets
Adults € 8
Seniors € 6
Students, unemployed persons € 4
Free entrance for persons under 18
Groups of more than 20 persons, € 6 per person
Guided Tours
Bookings, tel. (09) 849 2340 or tarvaspaa(ät)gallen-kallela.fi
Weekdays € 55 / Weekends € 65
Accessibility
There is an entrance ramp for visitors in wheelchairs. Most of the exhibits are on the ground floor, which accessible to movement-impaired people. A steep staircase with no handrail leads to the storeys in the tower and there are almost 60 stone steps to the uppermost room in the tower. Information and visual material on the rooms in the tower are available in the museum brochures and from the ticket counter.
There is a scale model of the house in the studio room for sight-impaired visitors, and information on Akseli Gallen-Kallela and the history of the museum building in available in Braille. There is also a raised-contour plan of the exhibition rooms on the ground floor.
Magnifying glasses and flashlights can be borrowed from the ticket counter.
Backpacks for carrying small children are also available.
There are chairs for resting in the exhibition rooms.
Lead dogs are welcome to the museum.
Cafeteria
The cafeteria is in the wooden villa building opposite the museum and is open during museum hours. Rooms and services available for special occasions.
There are toilets for the public and an invalid toilet in the cafeteria building.
The cafeteria building is entered via three wooden stairs.
The Museum Shop
The Museum Shop is located at the ticket counter. On sale are books, postcards, posters and other memorabilia..
Parking
The parking area is outside the museum area at the end of Gallen-Kallelan tie, the road leading the museum. Invalid parking is permitted in a designated space next to the foundation of the cafeteria building.
Photography
Photography without use of a flash is permitted.