Jean and lived at The service building with a small café, The main house, designed by architect The shed and outhouse were completed until the end of their built in 1974, was designed by the Lars Sonck, was completed in 1904 at the same time as the main house. A lives: Jean died in 1957, Aino in composer´s son-in-law, architect Aulis and extended in 1911-15, when the stable for Vilkku the horse, as well as a 1969. After their parents’ death, Blomstedt. The present form of the wall´s board cladding was added. The carage for the horse carriage was built in 1912. A pig was also kept at Ainola the couple’s daughters sold building, renovated in 2010, is the work tiled roof is from the 1930´s. Water until the end of World War II - it had it´s Ainola to the Finnish State in of architect Simo Freese. pipes and plumbing weren´t installed own sty and pen behind the stable and 1972. Currently Ainola is a until the 1960´s carage, where there was also space for special museum under the a rooster and chickens. auspices of the National Board of Antiquities. The Ainola GROUNDS OF AINOLA Foundation administers the 0 50 m property in this capacity.

Ainola is located close to Lake Parking in Järvenpää, about a E 30 minutes drive from the N T R A Finnish capital, . It was N C the home of and E his family from 1904. Already in Tickets the late 1890s, a unique CAFÉ community of artists was Museum Shop formed on the shores of the lake as many of the best known representatives of the golden former tennis age of Finnish art settled in the court area. Its distance from the hustle and bustle of the nation’s capital also gave Sibelius the Main Building N peace that he needed for his Woodshed and stable creative endeavours, while other artistic families living in the neighbourhood provided a Garden lively social circle. Cellar former playhouse The main yard area with the main house and two out- Grave Sauna buildings, surrounding wood- "Rapallo" Siimes´gate land and the garden form a former "The peaceful background also for greenhouse Temple" Jean and Aino Sibelius´ last resting-place.

Ainola has been carefully kept The sauna building, completed in At the beginnig of the 1900´s the "The Temple". Here there was a seat in its original form and visiting 1905, was designed by Aino Sibelius. Sibelius family spent time in Rapallo, made of tree roots, in the shadows of there is a unique possibility to It was torn down in 1925 due to Italy, which lent its name to this warm beautiful pine trees. A gap in the trees sense the atmosphere of a structural damage that was uncovered, and sunny spot in the garden. In the revealed a vista across the fields. This Finnish artist´s home dating but was rebuilt the same year in foreground is the gravestone of Jean was Sibelius´s favourite place to sit back to the beginning of the accordance with its original form. and Aino Sibelius, which was designed and reflect, and the destination of his 20th century. by the architect Aulis Blomstedt. daily walks.

Welcome to Ainola!

AINOLA Ainolankatu Järvenpää www.ainola.fi [email protected] Raspberries THE GARDEN OF AINOLA 1923

Tammisto potatoes

Beetroot and chicory Rutabaga N d i t c h

Cabbage Apple trees Compost Garden well

Hesa´s Chicory room MAIN BUILDING

Apple trees Aino´s and Hellu´s flower bed Flagpole "HORSESHOE" Evergreen rockery Apple trees Currants "Flower steps" WOODSHED

Kaisu´s "Apple cellar" flower bed STABLE

Potatoes Arbour

Field peas Root cellar Kitchen well

Sugar snap peas etc. Sauna well d i t c h

PLAYHOUSE Garden well SAUNA Sugar beet Drying field

Cold frames Spinach, GREENHOUSE Dill tomatoes, Beans (tomatoes) cucumbers Onions for Turnips cultivation, "RAPALLO" dill and parsleys Rhubarb Potatoes Carrots Cucumbers Celery Strawberries Apple tree Apple saplings and trees leeks Beans, dill, salad and onions Marrowfat Beans peas Apple trees Carrots

SIIMES´ GATE

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Map showing the planting scheme at Ainola based on a drawing made by Aino Sibelius in 1923.

Sivukoko A4 siten että kartta teksteineen ja kuvineen rajautuu sivun reunaan nurkkaviivojen linjassa (ei siis valkoisia marginaaleja ylös alas eikä oikealle) SB 13.4.2017 korjattu 25.7.2019