Museum

Queue Amos Rex outside
Visitors on Sunday 17th waiting to enter Amos Rex. Photo by Barbara Stojanovic.

Finland

ART

Helsinki Amos Rex returns stolen painting to Germany after 102 years

The Nomad Today/dpa 11/22/21

The painting had disappeared in 1919 during a burglary and research revealed that it was acquired by the Finn Amos Anderson in 1926

World

CORONAVIRUS

Stockholm closes museums, galleries to halt rising virus cases

The Nomad Today/dpa 11/1/20

Group sporting activities are also restricted. The measures are provisionally in place until November 19.

World

Turkey turns Hagia Sophia museum into mosque after eight decades

The Nomad Today 7/11/20

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan signed a decree on Friday ordering Istanbul's iconic Hagia Sophia museum to be handed over to the country's religious authority and reopened as a mosque,…

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Tourism

38 proposals for virtual trips in Finland

Pablo Morilla 4/5/20

Internet is full of resources to travel easily without moving from you living room. Especially in a highly digitized country as Finland.

Finland

CORONAVIRUS

The future of van Gogh's exhibition is uncertain

The Nomad Today 3/29/20

Group bookings for September and October are sold out. However, Vincent van Gogh’s art exhibition's fate may be confirmed in June.

Video

The world's only Moomin Museum is in Tampere

The Nomad Today 4/29/19

The Moomin Museum is an experiential art museum, which presents Tove Jansson's timeless Moomin stories through original drawings, paintings and three-dimensional tableaux. Video by Visit Tampere.

Tourism

Helsinki wants to build the world's best museum of architecture and design

The Nomad Today 4/3/19

The museum will be built by the South Harbour as part of a comprehensive development of that area

Tourism

TOURISM

Parikkalan Patsaspuisto, a challenge to your senses and fears

The Nomad Today 2/28/19

This is an unconventional environment, capable of generating in the visitor a complex set of sensations that change in seconds from curiosity to restlessness, nervousness or trepidation

Tourism