Huge museum complex

WeeGee is a huge museum cluster located nearby Tapiola center, about ten kilometers from Helsinki downtown. The former printing house contains five museums, including Espoo Museum of Modern Art EMMA, a toy museum, a clock museum and a couple of others.

The building is a sight itself, one of the best works from the 60s in Finland. It’s made from concrete, but the superstructure of the building is so light and airy that the ceiling looks like hanging in middle of air. This effect combined with huge windows looking to a small forest makes you wonder that the building wasn’t converted earlier.

The biggest museum in the house is EMMA. The museum is currently (2007) the biggest art museum in Finland with floorspace over 5000 square meters. The permanent collection focuses on Finnish artists, but there are also some international flavours and the exhibitions are top-notch — Malevich and his suprematism being the first when the museum opened the doors late 2006.

The other museums are worth a stroll, and children love the toy museum and engineers love the clock museum. Others will probably feel entertained, too.

There is also a small café and a bookstore on the ground floor, accessible also without tickets.

www.weegee.fi, Ahertajantie 5, Espoo, Finland, +358 9 8163 1818