Welcome to the Hämeenlinna Art Museum

The Hämeenlinna Art Museum is a diverse museum of visual arts near the centre of Hämeenlinna. The museum operates in two buildings in the Verkatehdas area, both featuring temporary exhibition that showcase various types of visual arts. The special exhibitions feature both older Finnish art and the latest contemporary art styles.

Current exhibitions

Mikko Hovi
22.9.2018 – 24.3.2019

Variously described as a primitivist, humorist, naïvist and modernist, the sculptor Mikko Hovi’s (1879–1962) highly idiosyncratic oeuvre does indeed encompass this wide variety of styles. Hovi was particularly skilled at portraits, characterised by their gentle affection, that captured ordinary people in a series of everyday moments. Read more >

Faces of Finland
5.12.2018 – 16.2.2020

Finnish painting from the late 1900th century to the early 2000th century. Exhibition showcases something integral about the Finnish identity and Finland’s nature and people, treating us to scenes of untouched wilderness and verdant farmland along with a series of cultural landscapes. Read more >

Hämeenlinna 380
22.2. – 5.5.2019

The exhibition explores how the city and its sights have been captured by artists throughout the years. The exhibition takes an extensive look at Hämeenlinna, including the city, its castle and the surrounding countryside.