THE MUSEUMS OF LAPPEENRANTA Recently completed Tiuruniemi Sanatorium in 1939. Photograph: Jalmari Lankinen. 2021 2

THE CAVALRY MUSEUM The Cavalry Museum is located in the Kristiinankatu 2, oldest building in Lappeenranta, built at The Fortress of Lappeenranta the southern end of the fortress in 1772 Tel. +358 5 616 2257 as a guardhouse by the Russians. The Tel. +358 40 587 2274 stone building, which has functioned as a museum since 1973, was renovated in 2018–2019, revealing on its walls some of OPENING HOURS Winter season: 2 Jan–6 June the many layers of construction that have Wed-Sat 11 am–5 pm taken place over its lifetime.

Summer season: 7 June–22 Aug The Cavalry Museum’s exhibition From Mon–Fri 10 am–6 pm Hakkapeliittas to Red Riding Trousers Sat–Sun 11 am–5 pm – Cavalry Life through the Centuries introduces visitors to the evolution of the 23 Aug–31 Dec: To stay up to date, Finnish cavalry from the 16th century go to www.lappeenranta.fi/museot to the present day. Narratives play a significant role in the exhibition. On The Cavalry Museum is closed display, you will see articles relating to the 1 January, Easter 2–5 April cavalry from both times of war and peace, May Day 30 April – 1 May not forgetting the cavalryman’s best Ascension Day 13 May friend, the horse. The Cavalry Museum Midsummer 25–26 June offers a fascinating and informative Independence Day 6 December museum experience, detailing the Christmas 23–26, 31 December chapters in the history of the Finnish cavalry. At the exhibition, you will also Other times open by reservation learn why Lappeenranta is a cavalry city.

ADMISSION Combination ticket to Fortress Museums • adults €10 • pensioners, students, unemployed, groups/ person (min. 10 people) €8 • under 18 years of age: free of charge

Free admission on Museum Fridays Autumn season: To stay up to date, go to www. lappeenranta.fi/museot

The Museum Shop is open during the museum’s opening hours.

A dragoon on a horse trained to rear in the 1920s. Photograph: E.G. Lehtinen. 3

SOUTH KARELIA MUSEUM Kristiinankatu 15, South Karelia Museum is closed The Fortress of Lappeenranta 1 January Tel. +358 5 616 2255 Easter 2–5 April Tel. +358 40 587 2274 Change of exhibition 12 April – 1 May Ascension Day 13 May OPENING HOURS Midsummer 25–26 June Winter season: Change of exhibition 11–29 October 2 Jan–6 June and 23 Aug–30 Dec Independence Day 6 December Tues-Sun 11 am–5 pm Christmas 23–26 December 31 December Summer season: 7 June–22 Aug Mon–Fri 10 am–6 pm Sat–Sun 11 am–5 pm Free admission on Museum Fridays Autumn season: ADMISSION 3 Sep, 1 Oct, 5 Nov, 3 Dec Combination ticket to Fortress Museums • adults €10 • pensioners, students, unemployed, groups/ person (min. 10 people) €8 • under 18 years of age: free of charge

The Museum Shop is open during the museum’s opening hours.

South Karelia Museum is located at the northernmost tip of the Fortress of Lappeenranta in a warehouse that was originally built as an artillery depot. The museum buildings are different from the neoclassical brick garrisons of the fortress, as they were constructed using local stone.

The old permanent exhibition of the South Karelia Museum has been taken down. The planning of the new permanent exhibition is underway, and it will be opened to audiences in the renovated exhibition space upon completion. The scale model of Viipuri (), which represents the most central parts of the town as they were on September 2nd 1939, will be put back on display as part of the new permanent exhibition.

The collections of the South Karelia Museum contain artefacts and photographs from Lappeenranta, the South Karelia region and the , the last of which was ceded to the Soviet Union in 1944. The museum’s collections are regularly on display in exhibitions. In addition to exhibitions, the South Karelia Museum offers guided tours and hosts events and workshops. 4 SOUTH KARELIA MUSEUM’S EXHIBITIONS IN 2021

Ari Jaskari, Young Woman Smoking. Puumala, Lietvesi, 1989.

– 11 April 2021 The East of Finland in Photographs

The East of Finland in Photographs is an entertaining and nostalgic story about people, nature and borders. It is a story about eastern heroes – yarn-spinning women, lumberjacks, hunters and refugee mothers – but also early industry, the creation of the modern lifestyle and changing values. We know the East as the land of great forests, fast-flowing waters and forested hills cast in blue twilight, where the varied landscape and people gradually change as you travel northward. The exhibition will chart the imagery of the mythical regions of Savo, Karelia and Kainuu from the 1860s onwards.

Taken as a whole, the exhibition will reveal how the Finnish East has been presented over the course of the past 150 years. The East in the photographs is a magically realistic fabric woven together from countless fragments. It hides riches but also poverty and is a place where exceptional sensitivity meets exceptional hardships.

2 May – 10 October 2021 Jalmari Lankinen – Architect of Viipuri, Photographer of Kannas

This exhibition chronicles the life of architect and photographer Jalmari Lankinen (1894– 1970). Lankinen was an architect from Viipuri (Vyborg) whose work is still visible in buildings on both sides of Finland’s current south-eastern border. He was also an experimental photographer who recorded his life meticulously in photographs. Lankinen was among the first photographers to adopt colour slide film in his work, which he used to preserve both snippets of his family life in Karjalankannas (Karelian Isthmus) and the scenes of destruction wrought by the in Viipuri (Vyborg). The exhibition combines these two sides of Jalmari Lankinen – the architect and the photography enthusiast – and presents the stages of his life alongside his most important architectural designs. Detail of Soyboy by 5 Jussi Järvinen, 2018.

30 Oct 2021 – 13 March 2022 KORU7

The international art jewellery triennial KORU7 presents the newest art jewellery pieces from both up-and-coming and established artists from around the world. The exhibition is a topical look at the many questions of our time, examined through the lens of identity, the body and the world around us. The pieces displayed in the exhibition have been selected to reflect the different premises and modes of expression of art jewellery. The variety of forms and the fine detail reveal the skill of handcrafted expression. The materials of the pieces and the experiences they create encourage visitors to look at jewellery in new ways. The seventh KORU event has been produced by the Finnish Jewellery Art Association.

30 Oct 2021 – 13 March 2022 Sweet Tooth

An exhibition of the products of Chymos, as well as those of local breweries and dairies. Chymos was a candy and beverage factory in Lappeenranta and is nowadays part of Fazer.

Chymos Juhlajuoma (Party Drink). Photograph: South Karelia Museum.

Jalmari Lankinen in his office, 1938. Photograph: Jalmari Lankinen. 6

Lappeenranta Art Museum LAPPEENRANTA is closed 1 January ART MUSEUM Change of exhibition 1–12 March Easter 2–5 April Kristiinankatu 8-10, May Day 30 April–1 May The Fortress of Lappeenranta Ascension Day 13 May Tel. +358 5 616 2256 Change of exhibition 31May–11 June Tel. +358 40 587 2274 Midsummer 25–26 June Change of exhibition 6–24 September Independence Day 6 December OPENING HOURS Christmas 23–26 December Winter season: 31 December 2 Jan–6 June and 23 Aug–30 Dec Tues-Sun 11 am–5 pm

ADMISSION Summer season: 7 June–22 Aug Combination ticket to Fortress Museums Mon–Fri 10 am–6 pm • adults €10 Sat–Sun 11 am–5 pm • pensioners, students, unemployed, groups/ person (min. 10 people) €8 • under 18 years of age: free of charge

Free admission on Museum Fridays The Museum Shop Sulotar is open Autumn season: during the opening hours of the museum. 3 Sep, 1 Oct, 5 Nov, 3 Dec

Lappeenranta Art Museum is located in the Fortress of Lappeenranta opposite the Orthodox Church in yellow neoclassical barracks that were built in 1798. Lappeenranta Art Museum is the Regional Art Museum of South-Eastern Finland.

The museum collection is primarily composed of Finnish art from the 19th century to present day. One large and important collection is the collection by Viipurin Taiteenystävät ry (Viipuri Friends of Art). The art from South-Eastern Finland is one of the main focuses in the acquisitions of the museum.

The exhibition program of the art museum presents a versatile overview of artistic phenomena. The main focus is on Finnish contemporary art, but the history of art is displayed regularly too. One of the museum’s priorities is to showcase art from South- Eastern Finland, but every now and then international exhibitions are arranged as well. In addition to temporary exhibitions, the Art Museum offers supplementary programmes, such as guided tours, events and workshops. Together the museums of Lappeenranta organize a customer panel and a museum club. LAPPEENRANTA ART MUSEUM’S EXHIBITIONS IN 2021 7

Aleksanteri Ahola-Valo, A Monument to the Man of the World to Come, 1975. Valola Foundation. Photograph: Jouni Kiiskinen.

– 28 February 2021 Aleksanteri Ahola-Valo – The Way to a Life of Values

The life of artist and Doctor of Education (h.c.) Aleksanteri Ahola-Valo (1900–1997) was eventful, and there is no shortage of stories that could be told about it. This exhibition sketches a picture of his world view and his thoughts on education. The curator of the exhibition is Doctor of Fine Arts Jouni Kiiskinen, and it has been produced by the Gallen- Kallela Museum in cooperation with the Elpo Association and the Valola Foundation.

– 28 February 2021 For the Love of the Arts – 130 years of the Viipuri Friends of Art Association

The Viipurin Taiteenystävät (Viipuri Friends of Art) Association, established in 1890, has been collecting art for 130 years. In 1930, the association’s initiative led to the construction of the Viipuri (Vyborg) Art Museum. However, the museum proved short-lived, and the bulk of its collections had to be evacuated to to the other parts of Finland in the face of war in the autumn of 1939. They were never returned to their original home. Today, the works of the Viipuri Friends of Art can be found in active rotation in the art museums of Hämeenlinna and Lappeenranta. For the Love of the Arts -exhibition brings forth the artpieces deposited in Tyko Sallinen, St. Malo, 1914. Lappeenranta Art Museum. Photograph: Lappeenranta Art Museum.

Museum Drama Goodbye Viipuri! at the Lappeenranta Art Museum in January and February 2021

During the Winter War, refugees from Viipuri (Vyborg) were offered the opportunity to have the authorities deliver their most treasured possessions to the regions they settled in if they left them behind in their homes. But what actually transpired? This museum drama, based on real events and real people, tells this forgotten story in words, pictures, museum objects and music.

Performed in Finnish. 8 LAPPEENRANTA ART MUSEUM’S EXHIBITIONS IN 2021

Jussi Goman, Seppo Gazing at a Distant Star in Bacon’s Room, 2019. Photograph: Finnish National Gallery / Petri Virtanen.

13 March – 30 May 2021 Mad Love – Seppo Fränti Collection

In 2017, Seppo Fränti, a collector from , donated his significant collection to Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma. The exhibition in Lappeenranta Art Museum is based on the Mad Love - Seppo Fränti Collection exhibition held at Kiasma in 2020. Seppo Fränti describes collecting art as his way of life. For him, collecting art is an activity that is closely connected with people. He knows almost every artist represented in his collection personally, and many have become his close friends.

12 June – 5 September 2021 Uno Ullberg – An Architect from Finnish Vyborg

Architect Uno Ullberg (1879–1944) was among the most distinguished figures in Finnish 20th-century architecture. This exhibition is a broad overview of the man’s life and work. It takes you on a stirring journey through Viipuri (Vyborg) and opens the window on vibrant decades of Finnish architecture. The exhibition has been curated and written by Petteri Kummala, PhD, Head of Archives at the Museum of Finnish Architecture. The exhibition script is based on an extensive research project undertaken by the Uno Ullberg -seura ry. The exhibition was held at the Museum of Finnish Architecture in the summer of 2020.

Uno Ullberg, Viipuri (Vyborg) Art Museum and Drawing School, 1930. Uno Ullberg, self-portrait, 1901. Photograph: Pietinen Collection of the Museum of / Museum of Finnish Finnish Architecture. Architecture. 9

Rurik Lindquist, the Church of Saint-Sulpice from the outside (Paris), 1892. Photograph: Lappeenranta Art Museum.

12 June – 5 September 2021 Near – Far

Where is the home of my soul? Is it in what I see before me or also in distant lands? For centuries, artists have sought for and drawn inspiration from near and far. They have been inspired by the landmarks, people and feelings of their home. Their descriptions still speak to us today – perhaps they carry a piece of past innocence. The subject may be a townscape with its buildings, a fast-moving river, a close-up scene at different times of year or a distant and exotic destination and its people that attract us by their unfamiliarity. Though we may see the same range of colours and moods, human experience is always unique to each individual. The exhibition has been put together using the collections of the Lappeenranta Art Museum.

25 September 2021 – 16 January 2022 Annu Vertanen – Porous Matrix

Annu Vertanen is a visual artist and woodcut printmaker whose retrospective presents us with her work over the course of three decades. The name of the exhibition refers to the item in printmaking that holds the image, known as a matrix, and the porous role matrices take on in Vertanen’s work. The internal movement, space and colour of the works set the stage for visual reflections of the experience of existing within this world. The exhibition is held in cooperation with the Jyväskylä Art Annu Vertanen, Truthful Stories, detail Museum. from the multi-piece work, 2012. Photograph: Vesa Aaltonen.

28 September – 3 October 2021 VIDS21 New Media Art Event

The VIDS21 new media art event and exhibition is spread throughout Lappeenranta Fortress. The event is made possible by the Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation’s regional sponsorship activities. 10

THE WOLKOFF HOUSE MUSEUM Kauppakatu 26, Lappeenranta Tel. +358 5 616 2258 Tel. +358 40 587 2274

OPENING HOURS Winter season: 6 Mar–6 June and 23 Aug–28 Nov Sat–Sun 11 am–5 pm

Summer season: 7 June–22 Aug Mon–Fri 10 am–6 pm Sat–Sun 11 am–5 pm The merchant house known The Wolkoff House Museum is closed as Wolkoff House was built by 1 January, 6 January – 5 March businessman Jacob Claudelin in Good Friday 2 April 1826. The wing on Ainonkatu was Midsummer 25–26 June completed in 1905. Independence Day 6 December Christmas 23–26 December and 31 December Ivan Wolkoff (1827–1900), originally from Yaroslavl, arrived in Other times open on request Lappeenranta in the 1840s. Reservations Tel. +358 40 587 2274 He began his career as a gardener, • Dramatized tours • School and kindergarten groups butcher and merchant. Ivan was later awarded the rights of a Finnish citizen and merchant. Ivan and his wife, ADMISSION • adults €9 Lyubov, had 10 children, and their • pensioners, students, unemployed, sons, Mikhail and Nikolai, carried on groups/ person (min. 10 people) €8 their father’s business. Nikolai lived in • under 18 years of age: free of charge the house on Kauppakatu with Maria, his wife from St Petersburg, and their children, Johannes and Anna. Entrance on guided tours that start from the Wolkoff Museum shop: Johannes studied agronomy and was responsible for looking after the garden and farms. He lived in the house of his birth with his wife Tours are in In Russian or Martta and their five children. Finnish, audio English only Anna studied languages and tours in Russian during summer graduated with a master’s degree. and in English 7 June–22 Aug After marrying, she lived in . When Anna’s husband, Väinö Times Nissinen, died in a train accident, 11:00 on summer 10:30 on summer Anna Wolkoff-Nissinen moved back weekdays weekdays to her childhood home on 12:00 11:30 Kauppakatu. In 1946, she 13:00 12:30 14:00 14:30 was awarded a tenure at the 15:00 15:30 Lappeenranta Lyceum. She is 16:00 16:30 on summer remembered as a legendary teacher 17:00 on summer weekdays of German and Russian. weekdays The Wolkoff House was a family home for four generations. The in connection with the Wolkoff House heirs decided to donate it for use as Museum, there is a small Wolkoff a museum in 1986. The house was Museum Shop. inaugurated as a museum in 1993. 11

Easter at the Wolkoff House Opening hours Sat 27 March – Sun 28 March 2021 Tue 30 March – Thu 1 April 2021 Sat 3 April – Sun 4 April 2021

Easter tours at the museum at 12 pm, 2 pm, 3 pm and 4 pm Shop open 11 am – 5 pm

The Wolkoff museum is decorated for Easter in accordance with the family’s traditions. Easter is the most important celebration in the Orthodox Church’s calendar – at this time of year, the tables in the hall were set with Easter delicacies, paschas, babkas and kulichs. The iconic decorative eggs and willow branches blessed by the church remained in place until the end of Easter, on Ascension Thursday.

Christmas at the Wolkoff House Opening hours Tue 7 Dec – Sun 12 Dec 2021 Tue 14 Dec – Sun 19 Dec 2021 Tue 21 Dec – Wed 22 Dec 2021 Tue 28 Dec – Thu 30 Dec 2021 Sun 2 January 2022 Tue 4 January – Thu 6 January 2022

Christmas tours at the museum at 12 pm, 2 pm, 3 pm, 4 pm shop open 11 am – 5 pm

Wolkoff Christmas shop also open on Sat 4 – Sun 5 December 2021

Christmas is celebrated at the Wolkoff Museum in the style of Johannes Wolkoff’s family. The dining room is decorated with a Christmas tree reaching all the way up to the ceiling, as well as baskets of flowers received as Christmas gifts. The amaryllises grown by Martta Wolkoff are also part of the atmosphere. The family celebrated Christmas Eve in the Finnish way, although the traditions of the Orthodox Church calendar were otherwise strictly adhered to. MUSEUM ADMINISTRATION Box 239, 53101 Lappeenranta Street address: Kristiinankatu 9 Tel. +358 40 587 2274 [email protected]

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