Environmental Promise
Museum and Sustainability
“Art is a vast, ever-lasting forest”
OUR VALUES
Eco-friendliness, transparency, reliability, putting people first
Our values form the strategic foundations for the museum. These values are based on Akseli Gallen-Kallela’s life work and the artist’s relationship with nature. Gallen-Kallela valued and cherished Finnish cultural heritage and wanted to protect nature.
Environmental promises steering our operations:
- Gallen-Kallela Museum is a centre for information and experiences surrounding artist Akseli Gallen-Kallela. The museum cherishes cultural heritage and improves well-being in the spirit of Gallen-Kallela.
- The museum will transition to using eco-friendly forms of energy.
- The museum cultivates the diversity of its grounds and manages and develops the cultural environment of Tarvaspää.
- The museum follows the principles of sustainable development.
The Gallen-Kallela Museum creates memorable experiences among the art and architecture of Gallen-Kallela in the beautiful landscape of Tarvaspää. Protecting local biodiversity as part of the Laajalahti Natural Reserve is important to us. We protect local nature and provide people with opportunities to enjoy themselves and relax.
The museum highlights environmental awareness in its communication and shares information about environment-friendly practices through its exhibitions and audience development. Tarvaspää is welcoming and safe to all. Here our guests can be active, explore and enjoy themselves.
OUR GOALS
- Make Akseli Gallen-Kallela’s and the museum’s values reality
- Maintain the local biodiversity of Tarvaspää
ACTIONS
- In the future, the museum will give up heating the building with fossil fuels.
- We will improve the energy-efficiency of our historical buildings.
- We will renovate the buildings, trails, stairs, and old wall structures on the premises to make the area more durable.
ECOCOMPASS
In November 2021, Gallen-Kallela Museum was granted the EcoCompass certificate. The certificate proves that we have followed the principles of sustainable development in our operations and meet the certificate criteria.
Browse Our Collections
Finna is a joint search service for Finnish museums, libraries and archives that brings together the materials of hundreds of domestic operators under one search.
Find out more about the museum's collection by clicking on this link.
Correspondence between Akseli Gallen-Kallela and Johannes Öhquist in Finna.
Explore Our Photo Collection on Flickr
The museum has published wide collection of images from the Akseli Gallen-Kallela's photo collection on Flickr.
Gallen-Kallela Museum
Situated in the Tarvaspää studio castle, which was designed and built by the artist Akseli Gallen‑Kallela (1865–1931), the museum presents changing exhibitions that explore the art and life of Gallen‑Kallela and his contemporaries, as well as contemporary art. The museum offers a rich programme of events and activities and serves as a central source of information on Akseli Gallen‑Kallela.
Come and discover both the familiar and the previously unseen sides of Akseli Gallen‑Kallela.