Tikanoja Art Museum

The Tikanoja Art Museum is located within the previous residence of Commercial Counselor Frithjof Tikanoja, who donated his domestic with its artwork series to the City of Vaasa at the twenty second of December 1951. The new art museum became opened to the general public quickly after that, on the 26 of December 1951. Frithjof Tikanoja had for my part experienced the inspiring effect of artwork and desired to provide the equal possibility to others. He understood the instructional cost of artwork. Therefore, artwork training is these days one of the important objectives of the museum’s sports and there's lively collaboration with colleges and other educational institutes. The Tikanoja collection such as greater than 1,000 works covers many vital artists in artwork records and genuine gems of worldwide renown.

The particular high-quality of the gathering is underlined through the reality that it changed into no longer compiled as a public museum collection however as a private domestic series. For this motive the Tikanoja series has, similarly to other artwork collections with a personal beginning, a personal man or woman of its very own that tells us about the author’s hobbies and expertise, reveals something of the collector’s nature and also reflects the technology of series. Frithjof Tikanoja idea that his series could carry the greatest joy to subsequent generations, who could enjoy seeing authentic masterpieces of art.